Never done it, but witnessed when very young a test of Navy equipment. It involved firefighters in sort of diving suits made of asbestos walking through sheets of flame (paraffin or petrol) with a big CO2 extinguisher I think. I would imagine those suits would now be regarded as toxic in themselves.
Much later, interviewed some surviving crew of HMS Sheffield, hit during the Falklands war by an Argentine Exocet which didn't go off, but whose propellant continued to burn causing a fire in the bowels of the ship. The youngest crew member, a boy of 17, told me the soles of his boots started slipping on the deck when he was fighting the fire, the deck having become hot enough to melt them.
The armed forces sometimes seem privileged, but remember that they may have to pay their dues.
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The Bradford Fire 
The Bradford Fire 