He is the newest blogger for The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA).
His inaugural blog gives details on his experiences that night. The link is at the end of this post. I encourage you to read it in full.
3 1/2 minutes. That's how long it took him to get out of the nightclub after the fire was started.
In those 210 +/- seconds, he saw the fire start; saw there were no fire sprinklers; saw the fire extinguisher was missing; was turned away from the closest fire exit by an untrained & ignorant bouncer; experienced a fire flashing over top of him (called flashover- and is usually fatal); was knocked to the ground by a person on fire; kicked the burning person off of himself; was knocked in the head by metal scaffolding; became temporarily paralyzed; attempted to commit suicide by swallowing a breath of superheated, thick, black smoke; lost his fiancé in the chaos; found that he had regained the use of his legs; crawled out the door.
That's a lot of stuff going bad in a short amount of time.
The point? You better be ready when things go wrong. Rob wasn't ready for all of this. But luckiky, he survived. 100 other people didn't.
See his entire post here:
http://sprinkler.blog.nfpa.org/fire-incidents/
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