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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4261186" data-attributes="member: 5412">I don't have any funny stories, but my Uncle was a firefighter. Back in the day before the SCBA's. When the engine ended up at the fire, he was the first to bail out and run into the building to rescue anyone inside. He had trained himself to hold his breath for almost two minutes. Made national news in the late 60's when running into a house fire to rescue twin infants. He was trapped in a room with no windows and the kids. It was a room with plaster and lathes as was the norm in that time for construction. He basically kicked a hole through the wall and crawled out with the twins in his arms. The local news was on the scene to get the pic that went nationwide. I've always remembered what he told me about kids that died in fires when there was a window in the room where they died. They were more afraid of their parents getting mad at them for breaking a window to escape than the fire, so they perished.  That intel was drilled into my kids and grandkids.</blockquote>