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Today of Snap Judgment, we're bringing you episode five of our Fire Escape series, since the listeners are advised.

On Christmas Eve, Amika and the incarcerated firefighting crew were called to a house fire, and they found a home fully

engulfed in smoke and made their way inside.

It's like a haze.

We all are fully geared up, which means we've got our SCBAs, so we're breathing through our

masks of air, right?

So everything we see, it's smoky, it's hazy, it's dark.

You know, the sounds are really muffled because we're all up in our gear.

And yeah, visibility is not real good.

And obviously, like, you know, on a house fire, all the electric is out.

So we're pretty much in the dark working with our lights.

There were multiple crews on the scene.

Amica's crew got to work removing the gifts from under the tree to save them from the water and the smoke.

And as they were working, a corrections officer pulled into the driveway.

It was his house.

And he saw a bunch of incarcerated women removing Christmas gifts from his living room.

Like, kind of...

I think he was shocked to see us pulling all of the presence out of the house and

it felt like his first assumption was that we were doing something wrong um and so that you know he

kind of came with that energy like what are you all doing what's going on what's happening like

why are you touching my shit what's going on? What's happening? Like,

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