Tony Bonfiglio

So now we're heading up to the stairs to the caller's apartment.

It's the forcible entry team, me, Lieutenant Clipper, and this guy, Jimmy Lynch.

And we get to the door and the woman opens the door and we own the apartment.

And it's like a slight smoke condition in there, but slight.

So we're like, what do we have here?

So my boss says, he was a smart fireman.

He was from rescue too.

He said, I think we got something above us.

Usually it's below us, you know?

But this, I guess, cause the light, the smoke was so light.

So now we get up, we don't have no masks or nothing.

We get to the, I see smoke coming out of the doorway, you know, the locked door in the hallway.

So I turn around, I donkey kick the door open, like three kicks, it kicks open and we got a black wall of smoke.

We're like, holy shit.

Now we got, after the 1020, we got to give a 1075, which means now we have a fire.

So now we're crawling in.

No masks.

No masks.

We're on our bellies.

Was it better or worse without a mask in this?