re: UPDATE: Found Dead A father’s desperate search for family after TN wildfires

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Unless he could walk through 1200 degree fire, he wasn't making it to them.

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You'd be amazed at what a man will do to save his family.

I was on shift one night in Florida when a man was brought in with 3rd deg burns over most of his body. It was awful. He did not survive, but...

He worked the night shift at a local plant. He apparently got a call around 3am from his neighbor that his house was on fire. His wife and 3 young children were asleep in the house and neighbor said it was too hot to get near the house. They lived in the country so it takes help a while to get there. The guy got there ahead of the fire dept and made 3 trips into the house which was fully engulfed in flames bringing his wife and 3 kids out. The fire dept showed up as he was bringing out his wife (he got his kids first).
The wife and 3 kids did not survive, but he died believing he saved them. Just before sedating him and putting him on a ventilator he asked me how is family was. I knew the man would die and was not about to tell him the truth. I told him he saved all of them.

That story is tough to tell in person without getting a little emotional. Mad respect for that man.