Tuesday, January 29, 2013


Dear editor,

 I’m writing to inform you about the fire. My crew and me were the first there as we were pulling up there was flames fire escapes and women were falling from the sky like rain. Because there wasn’t any proper safety equipment the workers either had to jump or burn to their death. The ones that jumped had fallen to their deaths with scared bodies and broken bones. After the fire was put out me and the chief went in for any survivors in the back of our minds we knew that there wasn’t any.  As we made our way up to the top floors we saw the signs of despair and selfishness. There was a group of bodies in the corner they tried to huddle up and stay together. The bodies were burnt to the core like coal even the teeth the hose was stretched out there was a bucket on the ground that was used to put out the fire at the beginning but water was only used at one spot but it had grown to large.

Sincerely Eric Baskin

1 comment:

  1. Eric, this is good. You did a good job writing from the perspective of the first responder. It felt a little unfinished but generally great!

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