To finish this, the homeowner female was hosing down her son on the front lawn, who’d been severely burnt while working on his car in the attached garage, gas fire, she was screaming, “My Moms still in the house”...Home nearly fully engulfed at that point. So I went in and got her.
That lady might have never made it out, if I had not ran in and grabbed her. I just happened by on my Harley at 20 years old,....So stop with your first responder BS script.
“To finish this, the homeowner female was hosing down her son on the front lawn, who’d been severely burnt while working on his car in the attached garage, gas fire, she was screaming, “My Moms still in the house”...Home nearly fully engulfed at that point. So I went in and got her.
That lady might have never made it out, if I had not ran in and grabbed her. I just happened by on my Harley at 20 years old,....So stop with your first responder BS script.”
Couple things here.
1, you were extremely brave.
2, you were extremely stupid.
What would have happened if you found the woman tried to get her out and then got trapped yourself? Again - first rule - do not compound the rescue problem.
When you are 50 miles from the nearest road, you do not have the luxury of ‘being a hero’ and taking stupid risks. I drilled that with my patrol. You get hurt fifty miles in the bush, guess what, the calvary ain’t coming. Don’t be a hero. Someone gets hurt - follow the rules and everybody gets out. Break the rules - it’s not just you and the other guy at stake but the entire patrol that you put at risk.
Rules are there for a reason. It’s one thing to be a hero and get lucky, but what happens when someone else comes along, reads what you wrote, tries the same stunt and then, in the middle of a goddamn fire realizes that you were damn lucky.
Sometimes you don’t have a choice - you have to do what you have to do. You have to go out there and do your damndest to minimize the damage. This is different.