[BunnySlippers]

The fireman who was on Larry King Weekend (this last weekend ... transcript still here) said one every couple of minutes. I'm sure it was dozens. Later I read that if people are in a window and a fire approaches them they almost ALWAYS will opt to jump.

[monkeywrench]

I made the same point way back when about Waco.

[Lazamataz]

Later I read that if people are in a window and a fire approaches them they almost ALWAYS will opt to jump.

So great is the pain of burning that pilots in WWI would jump from burning biplanes. There were no parachutes back then.