This footage is going to change everything, Darius.

It's the biggest scoop you'll ever get your hands on.

And my close friend James told me he was sending a few encrypted files over my office laptop for review.

I really didn't think much of it at the time.

James has always been a kind of sensationalist, touting stories

being larger than they really are for the entire time I've known him. Of course, he successfully

managed to make sure our paper can grab a few exclusives before the other big names in the city,

so I knew his intel was not always bad.

I just simply didn't understand the significance of this until I got a different phone call,

alerting me that our downtown office building was on fire.

I was in the middle of dinner with my girlfriend, but she understood why I had to drop everything.

Our entire business was depending on saving as many laptops and documents as I could from the blaze.

I could see it from about a quarter block away.

The fired starter somewhere near the fifth floor.

It didn't occur to me at the time. That was where James's cubicle was. The fire started somewhere near the fifth floor.

It didn't occur to me at the time.

That was where James' cubicle was located.

The fire department did their best to stop the inferno, but they refused to let me rush in

to save our devices.

All I could do was watch as they douse the flames and continue to make sure the area was roped off.

It was an excruciating long 20 minutes, and I was on the phone about three times with my boss chewing me out that I didn't try to supersede the first responders and get into the building.

Once they gave us the all-clear,

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