Well I and nearly died last week at work. I was almost electrocuted at work while fighting a fire last Tuesday night. While commanding an interior attack team at a fire in an abandoned night club, a spiders nest of arcing power lines nearly fell on my head. We had zero visibility and no second means of escape (both carnal sins in the Fire Dept). Afterwards, I had some hard questions for the Incident Commander like 'Why didn't you have a ventilation plan?', and 'why are we risking our lives for an abandoned property?'. The fire could have gotten much worse if we had not found it so quickly as there was flash-over potential (think room exploding into flame). I been pretty shook up about it over the past few days and I am glad to be alive.
