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And the smooth, comfortable fit of fit-flex™ protection. take your weekend on with a coupon at depend.com fire department emergency. >> there's a structure fire fully engulfed. >> a fire rages through an abandoned apartment building in kansas city, missouri. >> we've got the top floor of a three-story apartment building heavily involved. >> temperatures inside the building soar to more than 1,000 degrees, and the structure isn't stable, so the firefighters mount an aerial attack, spraying water from 100-foot ladders hovering over the flames. >> put a man on watch. >> flames threaten a neig...

Truck on the scene to help, but the radio malfunctions and the orders never reach truck three. >> dispatcher, this is 102. give me an emergency tone. >> time is running out. >> we didn't know if mark was being burned to death. we didn't know if he was incapacitated or unconscious, if he was injured. we had a matter of seconds. >> robert bates and other firefighters quickly raise a rescue ladder and climb to the top. firefighter rick carpo reaches the weakened roof first. now, he, too, is in danger. >> as i was going across, i was noticing that every place i touched the roof, my elbows, my knee...

Because i knew if the ladder came all the way down, he's going to die. >> it hit the edge of the roof, it bounced, and it stayed. >> the roof of the burning building does save him from an almost certain death, but the relief is short-lived. >> dispatcher, this is 102. send another ambulance to this location. >> now all that stands between mark and the concrete 35 feet below is a broken ladder and the crumbling wood of a burning balcony. >> for a split second i was like, what are we going to do? what are we going to do? at that time i started running toward the building. >> mark ashley is cloud...

God, let it hit the building. because i knew if the ladder came all the way down, he's going to die. >> it hit the edge of the roof, it bounced, and it stayed. >> the roof of the burning building does save him from an almost certain death, but the relief is short-lived. >> dispatcher, this is 102. send another ambulance to this location. >> now all that stands between mark and the concrete 35 feet below is a broken ladder and the crumbling wood of a burning balcony. >> for a split second i was like, what are we going to do? what are we going to do? at that time i started running toward the bui...

Can a business be...alive? fire department emergency. >> there's a structure fire fully engulfed. >> a fire rages through an abandoned apartment building in kansas city, missouri. >> we've got the top floor of a three-story parent building heavily involved. >> temperatures inside the building soar to more than 1,000 degrees, and the structure isn't stable, so the firefighters mount an aerial attack, spraying water from 100-foot ladders hovering over the flames. >> put a man on watch. >> flames threaten a neighboring building, so firefighter mark