"I love it. It's been in my blood all my life. My family's been in the fire department all my life. So it's pretty much in my blood. I just love doing it," says Rader.

Organizers say the teens do a variety of fire fighting drills, including one where they rely completely on their sense of hearing and touch.

"You're blindfolded and you have to go to all the barrels while you're blindfolded. You're communicating and using your sense of hearing with them hitting the barrels and you have to find all three of them," says Dustin Udell, a junior firefighter from Harrison County.

WVU's Fire Service Extension director Murrey Loflin explains why the drill is important:

"When you go into a fire it's dark, you can't see. So you depend upon your sense of touch, your hearing, feel - all that's very important," says Loflin.

The junior firefighters put the skills they learn in that drill to use in a mobile burn unit exercise.

"It gives you a taste of what it's going to be like in the real world. It's not real smoke, it's fake smoke. It gives us a chance to see if we're really going to like it or not," says Rader.

Rader says junior firefighting camp has cemented his love for firefighting. He says he plans to become a full-time fire fighter when he turns 18.

Junior Firefighters will have the chance to put out car fires and an airplane fire later this week. The camp will wrap up on Friday.