Amika Mota

They were definitely, like, you know, checking in with me on the way.

And I remember Chief looking at me at one point, and he's like, honey, you look like a deer in the headlights.

You know, we roll on scene, and I can see a man's head, and he already had that look of death, which is just that color, the shade of gray to his face.

My heart is pounding at this point.

It's like, okay, I don't know what else I'm going to see.

There's other engines on scene that have rolled up now and firefighters that have been on the job for 20 years.

And this was such a bad scene that there was a couple of the firefighters, the old head experienced firefighters that were sick on the side of the road, literally sick.

And so we're watching them.

But our job as the first engine on scene and as the girls that do the dirty work is pulling the bodies.

That's our job.

So I approach with the captains and the other firefighters, and I can see in the back seat two more bodies.

I'm praying because I don't know what to do to kind of else.

I feel like we have to keep some reverence to this moment, too, because it's so intense as this whole family that has passed.

I wasn't prepared for that being the beginning of my experience at the firehouse.

And so at that point, it was like I'm a baby firefighter.

And I just, my first car accident was a triple fatality.

We don't quite know how to take care of ourselves.

We don't quite know how to get home and tell the other crew about what we just saw.

It's just kind of a really silent ride home.

We're...