I used to get reamed good pretty regularly for things that I did while fighting house fires. One time we needed to advance the line in the attic of a big colonial house in order to be able to get to where we could see the glow of the fire. The guy backing me up refused to come with me, claiming that it was too hot. It is a very serious infraction to go on alone, so I grabbed his air pack harness and dragged him. Another time we arrived mutual aid to a big rambling structure and were assigned to search a second floor apartment where there was supposed to still be someone in there. When we got to the top of the stairs, at the entry door, I could see the glow of fire through a little gap between the floor and the wall. I sounded the floor with my axe and it was solid so we went ahead and searched the three rooms, in smoke so dense that we could not see an inch. we kept sounding the floor as we went. After the search they asked us to take a line in which we did. After about three minutes of working the 95 GPM nozzle through an opening in the wall at ceiling level, the heat and crackling sound were still increasing. I told the lieutenant that I didn't like it and we needed to get out. He said OK and we skidaddled. As we were going down the stairs the engine horns all started sounding the everybody out signal. We were the only ones still in there, and the place was going up like a roman candle. Too many hidden spaces due to remodeling over 200 years, and too many pansies on some other hose lines. Another time we arrived mutual aid at a rather small house, and a guy that I knew on that towns dept. was at the front door just spraying water in. I asked him why he was not going in and he replied that it was too hot. I took the nozzle from him and said "lets go". Well, it turned out that he was right. I went in just a little way and I was getting burned. I wasn't going to admit defeat, and I got down so low that my mask was on the floor while I worked the nozzle, It took probably five mins. of that before the fire finally slacked down a little. I had burns right through my bunker coat and all around my face mask through the nomex hood. I got a second bottle of air and went in again, and had the ceiling fall on me and then had one leg drop through the floor. When I got back to our station the chief looked at my air pak, helmet and coat and just shook his head and walked away. Every square inch whether yellow, silver, black, or chrome was black from the steam born soot. Those were the days!
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