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The Michael Berry Show

We Remember Those Brave Firemen That Were Lost 10 Years Ago Today

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Michael Berry Show.

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We begin today by remembering that it was 10 years ago today, the Houston Fire Department,

0:12.2

had its roughest day ever since inception.

0:16.5

It was 10 years ago today at the Southwest Inn, which you will probably more likely remember

0:22.7

as the Road Runner Inn, which it was before that.

0:26.7

On the Southwest Freeway after you passed Hillcroft on your left to the South, just past

0:32.3

that there was a low-rent motel called the Southwest Inn, prostitute zone of about a half

0:44.4

mile there, a drug haven, Xeroff property, had a real cheap, low-end Indian restaurant

0:53.2

that served Gujarati food called Bojan, BHOJA Inn, and a fire started.

1:02.3

Now, worth noting that the property had been cited multiple times for grease trap problems,

1:09.2

that's a real fire trap, fire problem, and for all sorts of fire suppression, failures,

1:23.7

the system not being up to date, it catches fire during the lunch service.

1:30.5

But for some reason it's not called in for three hours, an unreported fire for three hours.

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When the fire department responded, they come blowing in and the building structure has

1:52.0

lost its integrity, but they don't know that.

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They don't know what they don't know, they're just there trying to put out the fire, hope

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there's not anybody left inside.

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Four firefighters would die on that, Captain Matthew Renaud, 35 of 51s, a 12-year veteran,

2:10.6

engineer operator Robert BB, 41 of 51s, a 12-year veteran also, firefighter Robert Garner,

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29 of station 68s, a three-year veteran, and probationary firefighter Anne Sullivan, she

2:26.6

was only 24, she was also a station 68s, she had just graduated from the Houston Fire

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Department Academy with one month of service, Anne had been a volunteer firefighter, I know

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