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>> agreed. most of the firemen are known for their cooking. we cook some outstanding meals. weve learned to shop, weve learned to shop with less to feed more. you dont want to be a belly-robber. you better bring some food back for the boys. >> firefighters in my experience are a lot like the marines ive met over the years. no matter how badly led, ridiculously underequipped, underappreciated, no matter how doomed their mission, they take a bizarre and quite beautiful pride in at least being scre...

Their safety equipment, their boots, their clothes, are often moldering and shambolic. but they fight on. this is the second time theyve been to this house. if it happens to be arson, chances are no one will ever know for sure. given the ever-shrinking resources available to the department, most fires cant even be investigated. this fire is out within an hour. and after the fire, dinner. the cliche is that firemen are great cooks. in this case, the cliche is true. lieutenant mike devins and the ...

Pretty uneventful. >> but it wont be uneventful for long. >> in this situation we had some ice on the line. the bigger problem was that snow and ice had collected on the limb. >> the firemen and news crew have no idea the tree limb above the power line is about to break. >> i was, you know, doing this shooting where youre looking through the viewfinder with your right eye and my left eye, im looking around, see whats going on. i see the tree branch move a little bit. i kind of looked over at it,...

The firemen responding to the camiolos house fire were all volunteers. but one of them had an unusual background. steve avato was also an agent with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. >> he had been a philadelphia policeman prior to going to the atf. so he was not somebody just out of the academy. he had been someone involved in police work for a number of years. >> the atf took no part in this investigation, but personally, avato was dumbfounded when he learned that paul camiolo had b...

Inside. he had been unable to escape. >> the victim that was located was in a rear bathroom, and he was in cardiac arrest at that time. >> ed camiolo was pronounced dead at the hospital. rosalie died, too, a result of smoke inhalation. >> how horrible it must have been for my uncle, what he went through to be burned. and my aunt, how horrible it must have been for her. >> the firemen at the scene didnt see anything suspicious. >> there was a general consensus that the fire was accidental in natu...

>> the firemen were really serious, it was no joke. they were yelling over the loud speaker. >> leave your house! evacuation! you will get burned over! you will get trapped! leave now! >> i considered leaving, but if one little ember made it here, the house would burn down. >> even though most of his neighbors leave, richard is determined to protect his home. he waters his yard and monitors the coming smoke. it puts him at increasing danger. >> i started worrying once the fire came down mcallist...

At 2%. and you dont have to have a mathematician to know were behind the eight ball on that. youre not going to get ahead. and most importantly he took away our colas. >> the cost of living. >> the cost of living. now the cost of living is a fact of life. it goes up every day. youre not going to stop it. its always there. he took that away from us. we have police officer es and firemen that retired in the 70s, 80s and 90s that werent making a lot of money back then and look forward to get the co...

Dont think they were in uniform, but they were blocking, physically blocking entrance to the wooden escalators on our left, the ones that directly go to the train. we thought, thats strange. it was actually a tiny bit hazy in there, too. we noticed that, too. a little smoky. >> firemen see a small fire burning halfway up the escalators bringing passengers from the tracks up to the ticket hall. >> a very experienced fire officer looked down the escalator and assessed the fire as being, it is abou...

Good lord. oh, fellows. oh, my goodness. youre watching this live, folks. if you know a prayer, say it. >> and now its the rescuers who need help. just moments before the rescue chopper came crashing to the ground, its arrival was the most welcome sight to selena maestas, one of the climbers waiting on the ice, hoping for a miracle. this is her first trip to mt. hood. and just before the climb that morning, she has an uneasy feeling, admitting to her boyfriend, jeremiah, shes nervous. >> jeremia...

Wanted the firemen to move rigs out of the fast lane and he was administering help to victims and he done. who was right here? >> i understand the outrage. you are right. three fire trucks and two had complied and the other one was asked to comply and there was a clash of authority. the police have the highest authority in a crash like this. and not the firefighters. and the cop was exercising his authority. he thought he had authority. i am making the case here. he thought he had. >> you are do...