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Second. something like that can kill you. perfect evidence of that is what the tsarnaev brothers did in the boston marathon. they kullculled a mixture of fireworks in a closed device. >> i saw that up close. you're 100% right about that. first of all, you are with the fbi, not the fdny. >> that's all right. >> on that level, will they be involved with the investigation or kept local with the nypd? >> the task force would definitely be involved here. have i absolute faith in the new york city bomb squad. they're a wonderful group and cutting edge group as far as bomb groups are domestically. th...

Protect methods. the training is driven by foreign and domestic intelligence. >> we look at the threat streams, what type of explosives are being used in ied's. that comes to us and start to address whether our current procedures and technology can address that threat >> the average person is thinking how do they put on the suit -- >> the number one goal that we're taught is go remote, stay remote. there are going to be time frames where that doesn't happen. >> bomb techs visit the memorial wall, one plaque is blank. >> our goal is to ensure that that plaque stays empty that we don't have anot...

>> we take them from a police officer or firefighter with no background to a position where they can successfully navigate their way through a call. >> bomb techs embedded with s.w.a.t. teams after the brothers used pressure cooker bombs at the boston marathon and terrorist couple used bombs to kill in san bernardino california two years later. fox news went inside the training. >> you have a hostage and a live device and something called a dead man switch, if the hostage takes their thumb off the red button, it detonates. >> removing hostage devices is the riskiest procedures because all the ...

Are going to be time frames and that just doesn't happen. >> bomb techs visit the memorial wall, one plaque is blank. >> our goal is to ensure that plaque stays empty, we don't have another name on that. >> 15 bomb techs have been killed on a professional note, our fox team would like to thank the fbi in huntsville for making the access possible. >> bret: separately we talked about it last night. there are more text messages from former fbi agent peter strzok and lisa page about leaking. >> other government officials were apparently leaking about the russia probe one month after the presidenti...

For highly skilled bomb techs is never been greater. >> there is command bombs, victim initiated bombs, all of that we have to practice and train on here because we don't know what we're going to encounter. >> jon stewart is director of the hazardous devices school in huntsville, alabama. >> there's 2900 that protect us across america and they all come here for their initial training. >> what does it take to be a bomb to? >> it takes a drive, the desire to want to help people, you have to have some mechanical skills. >> our team saw firsthand how bomb techs learned to handle the shock waves an...