"It was like everything went in a slow motion for me. Like this guy has been in here and I couldn't find him," he says. "I think what I was doing was trying to somehow, you know, rationalize what happened by talking about it over and over" He adds: "There's nothing I could have done...he passed away before anybody got on scene"
As a firefighter, Christy Warren made rescuing people her life's work. Her toughness earned her praise from her peers. But after decades of rescuing others, suddenly Christy became the one who needed saving.
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