I Tried

I was working the day shift when I was dispatched to assist a volunteer fire department with traffic control. A trailer at the back of the park was on fire.

When I arrived the smoke had reached the highway. I looked down to the end of the trailer park and found that there was nobody at the fire but me! I ran to the burning structure. Smoke was billowing from around the closed door. The fire had broken through the wall of the trailer and was consuming the little home like a lion consumes it's prey. Someone yelled to me that a person was inside this hell on earth. I attempted to break the door down, it opened out rather than in.

I hit the door over and over and....
The smoke was getting so thick that the trailer was getting hard to see. It got to the point that I couldn't open my eyes anymore my lungs were full of smoke and I couldn't breathe.
I found the glass in the door and broke it so that I could try and reach into the flames and unlock it. The flames and smoke took me to the ground, I laid in the yard for a second
and tried again. Again I was taken to the ground. I remember praying, Dear God get me some help!!!

When the fire department got there a firefighter was able to get in. After a short period of time he drug a body to me and I then drug the body into the yard. The man's melted flesh stuck to my hands. I will never forget that odor. We later found his son inside as well.
The firefighter and I were given medical treatment when the nightmare was finally over.
I hope that someday the Lord will let those men know that I tried to save
them...I tried so hard.

Det. Sgt. D.J. Rogers