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Yes. They managed to break through a wall near the loading dock and pull him out..

My uncle’s best friend is the one that cut through and saved him

@@JCBro-yg8vdHe didn’t survive tho 😢

Smoke inhalation and burns was the official finding ...they run out of air in the cylinders first succumbing to the toxic gases of the burning furniture, most likely after death suffering burns the Report found there uniforms weren't rated to the high temperatures experienced 1, 000 plus degrees whether this would have helped is unknown as from the time they entered the odds were against them so many things went horribly wrong in minutes...

They got trapped in a room and couldn't get out. Those siren like sounds yoy hear are pass devices going off. They got off when a firefighter is motionless for more than 30 seconds.

@@justinmaxwell111 I was a fire fighter for 5 years man. The job is scary. This place was a death trap unfortunately I think most of these guys died from smoke inhalation and thermal burns. Hopefully they were unconscious already before the fire got on them

@@justinmaxwell111 They died of smoke inhalation and burns, according to the autopsies. Reading the transcripts of the radio traffic, they began to be overwhelmed between 7:33 and 7:40 PM, right before flashover happened in the showroom.

He took full responsibility for their deaths said he wished he could have done something then retired after

Just blame the chief. Forget about the cigarette smoking asshole who discarded his cancer stick in the dumpster that started it.

JOHNATHAN TYRELL?

There were people inside

Dakota Ford , OMG

Actually that is incorrect. When firefighters arrived, they couldn't find any active flames. The fire/smoke was burning in the loading area and filled the void space above the ceiling with super heated gases, which later would be instrumental in trapping the firefighters. There are several official reports that go over it.

@@joshrogers9515 My Oldest Brother is a Retired Firefighter for Our Hometown, so I know what I am talking about.

@@donnadreyer2580 I don't doubt you do. My statement is based off the official investigations that were done into the fire, not off any personal experience.

Reesie Jenkins I do too. I had just started my 21st year in the fire department, and was hoping that after 9-11-01 we had seen our last huge LODD fire. We hadn't. God Bless them All.Best Regards from Texas.

I stayed 15 mins away and seen the fire

Sad day in the North Georgia mountains too

Of course this is the second deadliest incident for firefighters in US history since the World Trade Center collapse in New York City during the attacks on September 11 2001 when 343 were killed along with over 70 NYPD police officers

The lack of sprinklers was embarrassing to Charleston and the state of SC because the fire code allowed the slumlords who owned the building to expand an old 22k sq ft grocery store with a widowmaker roof into a 59,000 sq ft densely packed storage area for tons of hydro-laden foam fuels without needing to install the sprinklers that any idiot could tell the repurposed and expanded building now needed. They just tacked on three extensions and called them separate buildings and the state let them do it because SC fire code was (at the time) not in compliance with the Federal standards. At the time of the fire it was three times larger than the mandatory size where sprinklers would be needed if the extensions were counted together as a single building and the interior was a total rats nest of code violations. The bigger issue was how the chief's initial size up failed to recognize that the "trash fire" he'd been called out for had already become a structure fire in an extremely dangerous sub-code firepit of a building. So his boys did the "run in and put the wet on the red" thing and rapidly things went to shit with no hope of fixing it.

CyanoticFuture , Sprinklers would have done nothing, with all that furniture being in there, it went up quick and very hot.all the black smoke was from all the sofas burning and other furniture.that stuff burns extremely hot. There was nothing anyone could have done, the Fire should have just burned itself out.

@@donnadreyer2580 The sprinklers job are to prevent the contents from catching fire. Not put out a fully involved building. They could have prevented the rapid spread of the fire to the showrooms.

@@donnadreyer2580 official IAFF report disagrees with you. Simulations show sprinklers would have started in 50 and 75 seconds, and the fire would be tenable. Even if it doesn’t totally stop the fire, they should be there to give our brave firefighters a chance to do their job as safely as possible. The original fire was not near the furniture and could have been mostly extinguished by the time first responders arrived, as it had not yet made it to the show room. Sprinklers here would have likely saved lives.

@@donnadreyer2580 the fire also would not have burned itself out. A neighbors house was already damaged with how long it went, imagine if it had gone longer! This isn’t the most crowded part is Charleston but it definitely isn’t sparse!