[Venturer]

As a professional Firefighter for 25 years I do not call myself an expert,but when Mr. Red gets behind your ass there isn’t a decision to be made. You are going. You cannot stay, It reach’s a point where you go. It isn’t suicide, it is escape, you take it because you can no longer stay.You must move.If the window is the only move you make it.There is no shame in it.

The shame is for people who weren’t there to make any statement at all about why these people left. They left because the spot they were in was untenable. Stick you hand on the stove’s burner, and see. You will move it, believe me.

[An American in Turkiye]

Btt

[Obadiah]

Agreed. Let’s not forget about the part of the article were it states that in some places the floor they were standing on was so hot that they were forced to stand on their desks!

[rmh47]

You are absolutely right. Heavy smoke will do the same thing. You have to get out of it. You are like a fish out of water. All you know is that where you are is intolerable.

I have been a volunteer firefighter for many years and have been in that situation once. It is visceral, a gut reaction. You have no control over it.