 This hot, humid weather is everyone scrambling for some cold water and looking for air conditioning, but imagine having to fight a fire in these conditions. This weather right now is just not friendly to the firefighters. I say it every year, the hot weather to me was always the worst time to work. Greenwich Fire Chief Joseph McHugh tells WGCH News. You can never cool yourself down, you know, and once you put that gear on, it weighs so much weight, it doesn't breathe, you know, and you have to have that gear on, it's black, it's hot.