They just pulled the hose off the engine and doused it with foam. |
They rescued about 240 people within a four-hour period of time within 5 square miles before they had to suspend operations at nightfall. There were about 500 people who still needed to be rescued. |
We depend on them quite heavily. But as a backup, we still carry alphanumeric pagers, which are quite reliable to get emergency notification. |
We even have an armed guard with our folks, as do other teams there. It's just turned into a kind of madness. |
We helped him walk out. |
What they do is they locate the heat source right away so there's no delay in finding the source of the fire. With books, shelves and other devices in the way, they just followed the thermal image for the heat source and knew exactly where to go. |
When we got there, the building was well-involved in flame, so we went to defensive mode to protect neighboring buildings. |