Personal Narrative: A Firefighter

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I woke up on a crystal clear morning “time for work” I sighed aloud to make it sound better than it actually was.Some people think it's difficult being a firefighter I honestly have to say it's easy… for me, I can find my way out of things pretty easy. so I arrived early about 6:00 I was ready to sit and do nothing for the entire day. By 7:39 some of my friends had to go deal with some “simple fire”
I never quite understood the difference between a major fire; and a small fire they are both equally dangerous but I didn't have to go so I was satisfied. It was going on nine and I was starting to get hungry, oh by the way i'm Steve buscemi
BOOOOM! The entire building shook “what's going on!” I screamed “earthquake someone screamed! I
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I ran as fast as I could, I didn't know what was going on but I just ran and ran until I got to the fire truck... I had to go and I wasn't quite sure where to go, until I got out of the station the world trade center is on fire! “Oh no oh no oh no” I thought desperately “ can our hoses even reach that high up?” I was so scared, there was people just standing there watching the towers burn *ALL UNITS REPORT TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER* the loudspeaker screeched that was my cue I had to go as fast as I could, sirens on and engine screaming I was off.After ten minutes of driving through the streets I finally made it to the world trade centers I started to spray the building as much as possible but nothing was happening! Then it happened *screeeEEEEECH* another plane was about to hit the second tower and i was right next to it I didn't know what to do there was so much confusion “OH NO” i yelled as the fire went rolling down the tower and I jumped off the truck and rolled under it. *BOOM!* it felt like a million freight trains had just passed by and then the heat hit. It was vicious it ripped at my clothes and my jacket I could feel it through the intense restrain of heat from my jacket and it was horrific! I woke up in the hospital “where am I?” I said rubbing my eyes from out of knowere “you're in the hospital you were knocked by a chunk of steel” then i realized it was the doctor standing at the door. later I watched the news and there it was the buildings collapse and me running from the

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