2011年6月27日星期一

Our mission was to crawl through a home

Our mission was to crawl through a home


Our mission was to crawl through a home to find a victim in a house filling with smoke. (Theatrical smoke for us.)

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When I imagined firefighters going into houses, I picture them running through buildings lit by fire. The reality is that most times, they’re feeling their way along walls in pitch-black rooms. By scanning the outside,What Dubai is facing currently is very similar to what a lot of other countries have faced,stonefireplace1. they’ll have a good guess where the living areas might be,Publique anuncios sobre edhardysunglasseswholesale gratis. but they can’t account for obstacles or eccentricities.

After popping the door open, I crawled along the eastern wall, following it with my right hand, which I couldn’t see. I wasn’t allowed to stand because in a real fire, the ceiling would be filled with superheated gases. As I scooted along on my knees, I tried to move quickly, but the darkness was disorienting. Each wall felt 100 yards long. Any opening I hit was a puzzle. Was it a closet that would trap me? A door? A hallway?

With my left hand, I was holding the head of an axe,FASCINANTES replicauhrensalesonline 100% suizos. tapping the handle on the floor. If this were a real fire, I would have been feeling for holes in the floor, or worse.

As I did this,Far More Than Hats authenticbreitlingwatches, it was impossible not to think about the apartment fire that killed six people last month in Aurora. The first responders there faced an almost identical challenge. One of them told me he was kneel-crawling along when he landed on something softer than floor. It was a person.

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