161 | The Ultimate Sacrifice
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
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🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you combine an unstable building, a fire, and Chicago’s Bravest who run into the fire regardless of the danger to their own lives?
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| 0:00.0 | The battalion chief, he escalates the alarm, many come to the back and says we have a confirmed |
| 0:07.0 | building collapse and we have multiple firefighters trapped inside ambulances and police cars were |
| 0:13.1 | crushed when the building collapsed. Unfortunately a lot of people use those as shelter. |
| 0:19.6 | Are you trying to get more information as you're racing to the seniors? All you're thinking |
| 0:23.0 | is I just need to get there. |
| 0:25.3 | The first soul purpose in life at that point is to get your guy out. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Case Worc case. This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler |
| 0:41.2 | former New York City prosecutor and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me |
| 0:45.4 | today in the studio is. Hi everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor |
| 0:50.5 | and production partner of one Jim Clemente occasionally. Very exciting. But not on |
| 0:56.0 | criminal minds. Very exciting for you. It's very exciting for you, Jim. I think it's what |
| 1:00.0 | you meant. It is. Okay. And with us today, we have very special guests. Jim O'Connell, |
| 1:05.7 | retired assistant deputy chief paramedic Chicago fire department and way more importantly, |
| 1:11.7 | Maureen O'Connell's brother. Oh, Jim, that's instant credibility in my book. Absolutely. |
| 1:17.1 | Anybody who has survived Maureen O'Connell for their whole life. Wow. Wow. She's one tough |
| 1:23.7 | customer, Jim. She is. She's subbed in for you a couple of times with me. And I've been |
| 1:29.3 | extremely quiet on those podcasts. Really? Huh? Hard to believe. That's my story anyway. |
| 1:34.9 | And also with us today, Vince Zitton, Chicago Fire Department paramedic, 10 years of service. |
| 1:39.7 | Can I just say you say your name so fast? I have no idea what you're saying. It's Vince |
| 1:45.9 | Zitton. And there you go. I'm Southern might years. Don't even work that fast, Jim. |
| 1:50.2 | Of course not, Francie. Anyway, we're here to talk to you today about a best case or worst |
| 1:59.0 | case in your career, Jim. Yep. Here we are. Yeah. So where were you in your career at the |
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