A Time I Will Never Forget

The workers were getting settled in there desk for a day of work. When suddenly weird things started happening to the building. The workers started to smell a burning smell. They thought nothing of it maybe a worker had just burnt something in the break room. The burning smell started to intensify. All of a sudden the fire alarms started screaming. Workers started to panic because they were scared of fires since the building was tall and they might not be able to get out. The lights started flickering and then they heard a very loud bang! The lights had went out, the only light that they could see was the morning sun raze. A voice came over the intercom saying you all are going to

At 6:34pm Incident Commander number two orders a head count and finds out two firefighters are currently missing which was last contacted via radio on the fourth floor. At 6:41pm the incident commander number two makes an announcement to all fire personal to use extreme caution because the building was dangerous and activated the third alarm and demand to clear radio communication for emergencies due to the missing firefighters stuck on certain floors where they heard emergency transmissions from victims in rescue 1 asking for help and that they were lost and out of air. And at 6:54pm the Incident commander orders the fourth alarm be struck and asked the location of the missing firefighters who were stuck in the building and tells them to activate there PASS alarms at 6:57pm one of the victims stated that their alarms were activated. With the other engines and support showed up for the third alarm they were prepared to do a search and rescue operation for the lost firefighters and while they go in after them they unfortunately could not reach the lost victims and by searching they lost all visibility and ran out of air and was

The sound of the sirens was so powerful it seemed like a rifle went off. Seconds later the police came and surrounded us, but I ran like I was on in a marathon, sprinting toward the finish line. The police were right on our tails, but suddenly the S.W.A.T team came. We were racing around like we were wild animals. It was dusk and all we saw were policeman shining their flashlights at us. The light was so bright it was like we were looking right into the sun. Then everything disappeared and everything went black.

At the front gate, there were weeds all over what used to be a garden. The door suddenly swung on its creaky hinges. Pitch black. You couldn’t see a thing in the cabin. Every couple of minutes shingles would fall off the roof. I was scared. Terrified. Then I heard creaking floorboards.

On arrival they witnessed smoke and flames on the mid level of the building. Two battalion chiefs arrived on scene and one proceeded to set up incident command at the lobby, while the other led fire fighters up the building for fire attack (Routley 8). One of the security guards then informed the chiefs that the fire was on the 22nd floor, and at 2033 battalion chief 5 ordered a second alarm (Routley 8). Due to insufficient fire protection around the utility lines all power was lost to the building (Routley 8). At the loss of primary power the emergency generator didn’t kick in due to improper maintenance it was unable to start (Routley 8). This profoundly impacted the fire operations for the remainder of the incident because the entire building was left without electricity (Routley 8). As stated in the tactical report, “This total power failure had a major impact on the firefighting operations. The lack of lighting made it necessary for firefighters to carry out suppression operations in complete darkness using only battery powered lights. Since there was no power to operate elevators, firefighters were forced to hand carry all suppression equipment including SCBA replacement cylinders up the stairs to the staging area that was established on the 20th floor. In addition, personnel had to climb at least 20 floors

"The first units on scene encountered heavy fire on the second floor.The fire was quickly brought under control and is now under the investigation

It felt like days had gone by before they actually started to go at work. By this time it seemed like the whole neighborhood was around my house watching as it took its last breaths. The yellow jackets finally climbed onto the enormous ladder that led to the rooftop, I heard a loud noise thinking it was the storm coming back to finish what it had started. Though it was just a chainsaw that the firefighters were using to cut open holes in my roof. My mom stared in horror, trying to keep it together, but a few tears slipping on her cheek as she watched her house crumble down right in front of her.

I bid him goodnight, left for home and went to bed. My pager went off at one-thirty in the morning for a reported structure fire, called in by a passing motorist. The address given was that of the elderly couple’s home. My husband, who is also a firefighter was up, dressed and gone before I could get a babysitter for our two sons. I prayer that the motorist had just seen the flickering of the television set and mistaken it for a fire” (Yoder 102).

One dark, howling night in October, I was camping at Lake Greeson all alone. It was freezing. I felt as if I opened the tent there would be ten feet of snow. The campfire needed to be put out before I went to bed.

It was the weekend before christmas, there wasn't snow but it was cold. We were leaving Home Depot. My boyfriend was driving his grey minivan. I was in the passenger seat next to him with his two friends in the back and a few of his other friends following us in Ethans van. The light turned green and we went down that road like every other time, but that time was different. We hit a patch of black ice. Boom. We hit the curb and s. I turned to look if everyone was okay as a flash of lights came from behind. It was kenneth's friends in the other car, they were coming up fast.

One good snowing after school day, the bell just rang my dad was in line and forgot that me and my brother Ethan were going to my friends house Austin mack house we were going to spend the night with him.

All I remember was a big bang that sounded like an explosion and i was in a room filled with smoke. It was hard to breathe, i was looking for the stairs. I found a door with the stairs, it was jammed, so I had to break the door. Fast enough, I saw a ton of debris blocking the stairs, burning in a big fire. I went to the door and fully broke it, and started shoveling the debris with the door.

Out of nowhere my brothers friend and himself who were seniors decided they wanted to walk almost three miles to the shoppette just to get drinks which was outrageous at first; deciding it would be kind of fun. This wasn’t my first time sneaking out, but we were really quiet and had to prepare for going out. The time took place near the end of November where there was almost eight inches of snow on the ground, yet I was wearing only pants and a jacket no beanie or gloves. We had to stay away and hide from vehicles that were coming from either way for the snow was blurring our vision and we had to stay away from cops.

Grace is a waitress at Star Cafe in Los Angeles California. She loves to work there because of the friendly customers and the occasional free food. She has been an employee of the month for 11 months in a row! She had just finished college at UCLA and is moving back to Seattle in a few days to be closer to her family. Grace dreadfully counted down the days until the move, but she knew moving to Seattle was the best choice for her family. It was two days until the move and Grace had one last day of work left. She woke up at exactly 5:45 am for her daily morning run. She put on her favorite workout attire and pulled her red hair into a ponytail. She didn’t have to work until 11 am so she decided she should run until 9. After she had showered and put her work clothes on, she went outside to wait for her best friend Madison to pick her up. Once she got to work, she made sure she said Hi to everyone and wish them a good day. She loved to put a smile on everyone’s face because seeing someone else happy always makes her happy.. Grace had about 3 hours of work left when she saw a young couple walk in. They sat at one of her tables and until it looked like they were comfortable, Grace walked over to take their drink orders. She had almost reached the table when the girl screamed at him,

The next day came and we were out the door by 10:00 am. My grandmother picked us up to take us to the Logan International Airport in Boston. It took a couple hours to get to Boston. When we entered Boston, there was a traffic jam and we weren’t going anywhere. We then saw helicopters circling the highway. A large black cloud of smoke and fire came from the slanted highway in front of us. We waited about half an hour for