9-1-1.

Eight: Defend in Place. Part Two.

Still with Claudette...

Claudette: "Unit 118, this is Dispatcher Collins. I lost connection with your firefighter in room 318. Line is dead."

Eddie and Buck began running up the stairs as quickly as possible.

Buck: "Copy that, dispatch. We're almost there."

Eddie ran ahead.

"This is us." Eddie muttered, running through the door.

"Damn, it's bad up here." Said Buck.

Buck and Eddie stood at a door, seeing the fire burning wildly.

Eddie: "Headed that way, but this floor is fully involved."

Claudette: "Gilbert said they took shelter in the room and sealed it with wet paper towels. Room 318."

Buck: "We can't go any further without a hose line."

Buck stared at the fire extinguishers on the wall, staring over at Eddie.

"Guess these have to do." Said Eddie.

Eddie and Buck stared at each other, nodding their heads, and opened the doors running inside.

They each grabbed a fire extinguisher and began spraying it around the fire.

"Ahh, too hot! The flames are too high!" Buck shouted.

Buck and Eddie made it to the other side, and they opened the door, and a ball of fire blew out, knocking them down.

Claudette: "Firefighter Buckley, Firefighter Diaz, are you there? Do you copy?"

Eddie and Buck coughed, kneeling down on the floor that wasn't on fire.

Claudette: "Firefighter Diaz, do you copy? Did you make it to room 318?"

Buck: "There is no room 318. It's gone."

Buck stared over to where room 318 should be.

Eddie: "Fire took it."

Buck sat back, still in some kind of trance, and Eddie breathed heavily.

Linda looked over at Claudette.

Claudette: "Copy."

"I think you need to take five." Josh mumbled, walking over to her table.

"I'm fine." Claudette whispered.

"No, just take it anyway." Josh tells her.

Claudette removed her earpiece, stood up, and walked away, putting a hand over her mouth.

Linda: "911. What's your emergency?"

Michael stood there, staring at the building, having just heard about Ashleigh.

"Michael! Michael!" Athena shouted.

"Athena! Have you heard? Ash..." Michael said, running over to her and hugging her.

"Are you all right?" Asked Athena.

"It's David and Ashleigh... they're saying Ashleigh is dead, Athena. She was, uh, in room 318... they said the fire took it." Michael tells her.

"No. No. She's smart. She got out of that room." Athena mumbled, staring at the burning building.

Back with David...

"LAFD is calling for a mandatory evac... we've got about five minutes before they come in here and drag us out themselves."

"That won't be necessary. Almost done." David says.

The lights went off.

"Okay, you all need to leave now. I mean it. Go now." Said David.

"With all due respect, Doctor, we leave when you leave."

Back with Ravi, he continued walking, finding blood on the floor...

"Hen over here! Come on!" Ravi shouted, running over to help Rupert pull the shelf off the nurse.

"Is she alive?" Asked Rupert.

"Callie? Callie?" Hen asked.

Callie began coughing.

"Thank God." Rupert muttered.

"Ravi, get a tourniquet on that leg. Callie, your pulse is strong." Hen tells her.

Ravi pulled in a gurney, and they placed Callie on it, and Rupert stared up at the ceiling.

"Get her out of here. Get out!" Rupert shouted, shoving Ravi out of the room.

The roof collapsed on top of Rupert.

"Rupert?"

Buck threw the bag into the fire truck, staring down sadly. Eddie looked over at Buck, putting a hand on his chest.

"You okay?"

"What do you think? She can't be dead." Buck says.

"I know."

"What am I supposed to do now?" Asked Buck.

Linda: "911. What's your emergency?"

Woman: "Where are they? They aren't here."

Linda: "Who am I speaking with?"

Woman: "Ashleigh. Firefighter Gilbert."

Ashleigh coughed, holding the phone against her ear, and Ashleigh held Sofia, and Parker leaned against her.

Ashleigh: "They said they were coming to get us out. I don't know how much longer I can hold out before passing out here."

Linda: "Ash, I need you to stay with me on the phone, okay?"

Ashleigh began coughing, placing the mask back on Parker's mouth and nose.

"Leave it on, buddy. It'd help." Ashleigh mumbled, looking down at Sofia.

Linda: "Firefighter Buckley, this is Dispatcher Bates. Do you copy?"

Buck signed deeply, grabbing his walkie-talkie.

Buck: "Go ahead, dispatch."

Linda: "Did you get into room 318?"

Eddie rested his head against the fire truck, away from everyone.

Buck: "Negative. 318 was lost to the fire."

Linda: "Well, Ash just called me."

Buck: "Uh, hold on, she... she's alive?"

Eddie: "Where is she?"

Linda: "She's still saying 318. Is it possible you were in the wrong room?"

Eddie: "No, but I think she might be. Total miscommunication. She's stressed, trying to keep two kids alive..."

Eddie stared in the mirror of the truck, seeing his helmet 118 backwards.

Eddie: "Is there a room 81E in the hospital?"

Linda quickly checked it out.

Linda: "Yes. On the fifth floor."

Eddie: "She was reading... she was reading a reflection!"

"Buck, let's go!" Eddie shouted, grabbing a bag and running towards the hospital.

Eddie and Buck began running up the stairs once again.

Linda: "They're on five. Once you get past the elevators, they're in the third room on the left."

Buck: "Copy that. Almost there."

Buck and Eddie breathed heavily, pushing past it and running up the stairs.

"74! 76!" Buck shouted.

"75!" Eddie shouted.

"Let's go! Keep going, keep going!" Buck shouted, running through some double doors.

Eddie followed him.

"This is 82! Hey, there we go... that's 318 backwards." Buck tells him.

Eddie tried the handle.

"Ash! LAFD! Anyone in there?" Buck asked.

Eddie got the door open, hearing the baby crying and seeing Parker sitting there, staring at Ashleigh.

Buck ran over, kneeling down beside Ashleigh.

"The kids are fine." Eddie says.

"Her pulse is stable, but she's out." Buck tells him.

"Must be the smoke. We don't know how long she's been inhaling it." Eddie muttered.

Buck placed something over her face, lifting her bridal style, grunting lightly, and standing up.

Eddie held the baby, holding Parker's hand, and they ran out of the room.

"Let's go! Let's go! Come on!" Buck shouted.

Eddie: "Dispatch, this is Firefighter Diaz. Got both kids and Gilbert alive. Evacuating now."

Linda closed her eyes, exhaling sharply.

Linda then walked into the breakroom, finding Claudette with her head in her hands...

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine." Claudette says.

Linda turned, seeing a dispatch closing the door and holding up a hand.

"Not now."

"You don't need to be in here." Said Claudette.

"Well, I thought you might like to know the kids and Gilbert are okay. They found them."

"What?" Claudette asked.

"Because of how much smoke she inhaled, she was stressed trying to keep two kids alive with nothing... she read the wrong room number."

"What... what do you...? How is that possible?" Asked Claudette.

"She called back. She saw the numbers in a reflection in the hall."

"You figured that out?" Claudette asked, staring at her.

"A firefighter did when I radioed him. So I guess you could say this was a group effort. You were part of that, too."

"Oh." Claudette murmured, standing up from the chair and turning her back to Linda. "Okay."

Claudette put a hand over her mouth, crying softly.