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to start your Friday, the 13th.

I mean, I'm no Nostradamus

or anything,

but I just had a bad feeling.

Soon as I saw it, I

just had a bad feeling.

Me and a couple other

guys were ventilating,

we were taking the plywood off

all the second story windows

so the water tower could get

water in through the second floor.

The bricks up there looked a little

suspect, and as we were working,

I remember hearing somebody shout.

The bricks in front of me, the facade

of the building were

cascading like a waterfall.

I mean, I saw it coming

and I made a run for it.

Chief 6 to

Central, send EMSes immediately,

we've had a building

collapse, fireman down.

I saw him running and

he was less than ten feet from me

when the wall caught him,

I could see his face.

Central, this is Engine 30,

Multiple EMS, multiple firemen down.

Hm, I can

still see it... plain.

And I went to go push

myself up off the concrete,

do a push-up and slide my knees

in and walk away, and when I did

that push-up, the only thing

that moved were my shoulders.

Central, we need everybody here,

we've got freaking firemen

down, the roof has collapsed,

we need everybody here now!

They were hurt pretty bad,

they were buried in the bricks.

I think it was about four minutes,

we had them all out on backboards.

Called for a second alarm instantly.

Chief 6 to Central,

give me a second alarm.

Stop!

F***in' brake, goddammit!

I was angry.

I was pissed off that

this had happened.

I remember there was

chaos going on around me,

but just Inside I was so calm.

One of the things that I wanted

to do afterwards was make sure

we washed all of the blood

out of the street, there was

so much blood in the street.

Things could have been

done differently on August 13th

that wouldn't have resulted in this.

We could have did a complete surround

and drown defensive operation,

that would change things

dramatically.

I'd still be walking

if we had done that.

There's definitely things that

could have been done differently.

When we go into to

houses, it's a whole 'nother thing

from what you see on the news from

us standing outside with a hose.

Close your eyes,

feel heat all around you.

Do not have no clue as to

where you going, and then say,

"Okay, I got to fight this."

That's fear.

There's some buildings that

you come out of, and you realize

that the structure is

designed to kill firemen.

We've had stairways collapse.

We've had bathtubs fall

from the second floor

onto the first floor,

hit the guys below.

People have weights in

their rooms, they have waterbeds

in their rooms, they have weapons,

there could be anything up there.

We have a record amount

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