re: Why that Avatar and Name?

Used to be. It’s integrated into our SCBAs now. When you turn the air cylinder on, it powers up the alarm. It’s called a PASS (personal alert safety system). The idea is that if you go down inside of a building and don’t get back up in a certain amount of time, the alarms will go off and the lights will start flashing to alert other crews that you are in distress and help them find you. There’s a pre-alert that starts sounding when you’re still for too long and if you start moving it’ll shut off…if not, it goes into full alarm and then has to be shut off manually. 

During the Academy, it’s a guaranteed way to end up running up and down the tower as punishment if you allow the PASS alarm to go off when it’s not supposed to.

You probably wouldn’t notice it, but in videos when you see guys standing around outside, you’ll see them sway side to side, or shakes their torso around from time to time…that’s to keep the inactivity alarm from going off.