Behind The Visor Of A Firefighter

Chapter 2

My heart is beating as fast as a race cars' trying to stay calm for the teams sake but it is becoming harder and harder to breath as the smoke is filling my lungs. I look to Livingstone as we wait for the rest of the team to turn up and come up with a plan to get us out. I then look to the woman who has my breathing apparatus, she looks pale and is still having problems breathing.

"Wolfe to Storm, the woman is finding it hard to breath could you possibly hurry up as I don't think we hang on any longer, over" I wait for the reply, I start to panic as my breathing begins to get shorter by the minuet.

"Storm to Wolfe, we are about a minuet away we're going to have to get you to jump down the stairs as there is no other way, over" he replies, I didn't realise that I could lose my cool, in all of the years that I have been here and in all of the situations I've been in this has got to be the only time I have lost my cool.

"WELL HURRY UP THEN AS I'M LOSING IT HERE!" I shouted down the radio to the hole team. I looked to the woman and saw her face as I started to freak out, then I caught Livingstone's face and nearly broke down there in that second but managed to keep it together.

"Wolfe?" I heard my name called up the gap where the stairs should've been. I stepped forward and looked round to see Storm at the bottom of the "stairs".

"Yes?" I asked as I waited for his reply.

"Bring the woman to the top of the stairs and get Livingstone to lower her so we can catch her?" he asked and I did as I was told, I took the woman to the stairs and explained that my college was going to lower her down and the others were going to catch her, I then told Livingstone the same thing but added that he were to follow her when she was safe.

"She's on her way down," I shouted down and stood back whilst I waited for the others to get the woman and Livingstone to safety. I was looking around when I noticed something move out of the corner of my eye, I wasn't really thinking about the fact that the house was still on fire and was still a hazard. I walked towards the direction that I saw the object move, I was so far away with my thoughts that I didn't notice the crew calling me. I felt something pull at my arm and as I whizzed around to see who it was I realised that I was the only one still at the top of the stairs. i looked around but no one was there, i moved towards the stairs and looked down at the crew. i took a step closer to the edge of the stairs and watched as Livingstone carried the woman out.

"Wolfe are you ready?" shouted Storm from the bottom of the leftover burnt stair case.

" Yes i am," i shouted down and lowered myself to the floor. I pushed off the side and landed in the arms of Loding, Tox and Livingstone. i looked at them as they placed me down, i stood on my own 2 feet and walked along side Livingstone, he kept his arm around me to stop me from falling.