It hadn't taken them long to put out the fire, they finished up and returned to the station.
The end of the shift came and went by pretty quickly after that. Not much happened and the mysterious man did not return.
The next morning they began their shift with rolecall, during which Recall noticed the man hanging around outside the station again. After they had been dismissed Recall went outside to see if the man was alright. He invited him in for a cup of tea which he greatfully accepted.
Upstairs he was telling them more about the fires he attended. Often not dissimilar from those that bluewatch experience now.
This activity carried on for about two weeks virtually the same as that first day. Rollcall was taken and the man came in for tea or coffee whilst he told them stories of firefighting heroes and dramas. No names were ever mentioned they accepted that he might want to keep it anonymous so that they didn't try and look up any more information about the firefighters and what became of them. When they were called out on a shout sometimes he would wait for their return and othertimes they returened to find him gone. Adam had not been seen for those two weeks now and they hadn't heared much from him since lift-off. But they just decided that he was probably crusing around the solar system without a care in the...... universe.
One morning the shift began as normal. Roll Call, chats with the man etc. He was talking about that one day when the rest of his watch were killed. He hadn't spoken much of it since the day he first came some three weeks earlier.
"It was a warm day but overcast...... They had apparently been called to a hospital near Canary Warf. It was serious and had watches from 4 different stations attending. Blackwall's Bluewatch had somehow managed to draw the short straw...... (They arrived first anyway) and were sent into the building to search for survivors. Most of the patients and staff had gotten out but they had to make a full check of the whole hospital to make sure. They were split into pairs and were instructed to work together through the area to search whilst the officers from the other stations put out the fire and secured the area."
At this point he became overcome with emotion. Sally went and sat next to him and gave him a hug saying that he didn't need to carry on telling them if the didn't want to. But still he ignored her and struggled through as if he felt they had to know about it.
"It was unclear how it happened but the whole of the watch got trapped in one room which had become competly cut off from their way out. The floor had collapsed in and theywere buried in rubble. There was no way they could get out of it so they had to wait for the others outside to resuce them. By the time they had come into the building only three members remained consious the others overcome by the smoke and heat had slipped unconsious or had been knocked out by the impact from the fallin debris which had covered them. When they had got them out and to hospital the results were devistating. Three were suffereing from heat exaustion, all had major injuries, one had had his skull broken in to three parts by the presure of the material around him.
Only one member had survived the ordeal. The man told how he had heared about it on a radio where he had been staying whilst he was off work and returned immediatly. The survivor, a female firefighter and friend of his told him of their ordeal and he was shocked beyond belief."
Bluewatch were all so diappointed when the bells began ringing and they were called to a shout.
"Fire at a....... hospital....... Eddison square Pump and Pump ladder, c'mon guys lets go!" Yelled George and they all jumped into the appliences.
They feel it is a slight coinsidence but shrug it off. Nothing is a coincidence with their job. Fire is often unpredicted so they didn't think about it.
At their destination they are amazed at the huge scale of the fire. It had engulfed the whole of the building and to make matters worse there were people streaming all over the place. Hospital beds were littered along the sides of the road, some empty and some with patients laying on them, some surrounded by doctors and nurses. They were the first station with firefighters on the scene but were closely followed by bridgewater from the north of the site and about 2 minutes later by another from the area. The area commander was also on the scene in no time at all. He instructed blackwall to get kitted up in BA Gear whilst Bridgewater tried to control the crowds and begin fighting the fire. As Bluewatch were suiting themselves up in BA Gear the last station arrived on the scene.... Chadbrook, last as usual. But the watches didn't conflict, not tonight, there were too many lives a risk for joking.
BA Control takes their numbers and they enter the inferno. George alongslide Hyper push through the flames followed by the rest of their crew. They had been instructed to keep together for now as there was too much of a possibility of them becoming split and so weakened. They enter into what appears to be a short corridor with a number of rooms comeing off of it. Explosions ripping through walls and parts of the ceiling collapsed in the distance. It appeared impossible to search the whole of this building from top to bottom the ceilings were becoming unstable and the amount of fuel and chemicals being kept there ment that there was a hugely increased risk of more explosions. They search the first room the come too off of the corridoor. It's clear, the same with the next. They came to some stairs which they cautiously approached and climbed. They looked down what was another long corridoor lined with swinging double doors all of which beared the entrance to a medical room of some kind. The last room on this floor was an operating theatre. It was at the far end of the coridoor where part of the floor had collapsed into the rooms below. It was unstable but the room needed clearing. George and Keri edged forward being shadowed by Sally and Recall the others held back slightly. But just then a sudden thundering roar and blast of flames rips from behind them. A wall of fire sprung up behind them and explosions caused the floors to shake. They were trapped by heated orange flames and dangerous livewires. There was no way out. The room which they were checking was black and sealed. No windows, no doors nothing. The watch went in, closed the door and sat down to discuss what they plan of action should be. The conclusion was that they just had to wait. They had taken only 4 radios between them, Hi-Ho tried his and was getting a spluttered response from BA control they could barely make out what they were saying. He tried again and the others were tried all with the same effect. Control could not hear them but they could just about hear control, for general words. It was hopeless. All they could do was wait. Just then there was a huge low rumble and the floor began to jolt and then fall downwards. The ceiling was collapsing again, only this time they were going with it. Sally lay there underneath rubble for what seemed like eternity. Her leg was caught under a concrete beam of somekind. She tried calling out to the others. Only Hi-ho responed. He called out to her and the two offered each other words of encouragement, until he fell silent. Sally began to panic. Minutes later she heared voices from farther off. It was members of Chadbrook coming in after them. She yelled and they responded telling her to stay calm and she would be out in no time. She had to keep shouting so that they could be guided by her voice. Minutes later she was being pulled free from the heap by two strong firefighters. With doctors on hand to give a full professional evaluation before whisking her off to another nearby hospital for treatment.
She didn't remember a whole lot after that until the awoke again in the hospital finding doctors milling around past her door . She looked around, she was in a small side room with bare white walls and plain blue curtains. She looked over towards the window. It was dark outside but she could see lights from nearby buildings. She had a tube going into her nose and had a drip in her arm. Trying to move and sit up she winced in pain. One of the nurses noticed she was awake and came in from the reception outside.
"Ahh your awake, Do you know where you are?"
"A hospital somewhere."
"Your in Kingston Hospital. You have been asleep for three days."
"Don't worry, I will let the doctor know you are awake and she will come through and speak to you as soon as possible. Oh and you had a visitor earlier, a man, sorry I don't know his name but he said he would be back tomorrow."
The Nurse left the room, Sally felt relieved and worried. She suddenly remembered the rest of her watch, and she wondered who her visitor was. She lay thinking for a while until the Doctor came into the room to see her.
"Hello Sally, I'm Doctor Bradley. How are you feeling?"
"I don't know, I cant feel my legs, and Im tired but apart from that I don't know."
"One of your legs is broken because you got buried under the rubble the other is just badly bruised. You have suffered some burns and several Brusies. Luckily you will be fine in no time. You will have to wear a cast for a few months and may need Physio so you may not be able to go back to work for sometime."
"Thank-you" She told the doctor greatfully "Can I ask, How are the others? The rest of my crew I mean?"
The Doctor sat down on the edge of Sally's Bed.
"I'm afraid none of them survived. They were crushed to death from the rubble. You were lucky that you were close to the edge of where it collapsed."
Sally began sobbing and the doctor leant down and put her hand on sally's shoulder trying to console her.
"Can we call someone for you?"
"No, There is no one I don't know where my family are"
"You had a visitor earlier. He didn't leave a name just said he would be back tomorrow. He was sat by your bed for about two hours."
The Doctor left her closing the door behind her to give Sally some privicy and peace. She lay there quietly thinking, tears streaming down her cheeks. She thought about every member of the watch.......... then she thought about Joe. She loved him and they were getting married, making a commitment but he was tradgically killed. This had upset her all over again just thinking about him she cried until she gradually fell asleep.
The next morning she awoke it was just before midday and she looked around and found a man sitting in the chair next to her. He was a middle aged man with short hair and she immediatly recognised him.
"Adam.......... how come your here? I thought you were in space?" She just managed to get her words out.
"I was, but I came straight back when I heared something on the radio. A lot happened whilst I was out there. "
"Who was that man?" Sally suddenly rememberd the old man who was at the station everyday for the past month up until the day of the fire.
"Which man?" Adam asked her. He hadn't been at the station so of course he thought didn't know what she was talking about.
"The old man at the station, he kept coming back everyday and was telling us about what happened at Blackwall whilst he was serving there. What happened a few days ago was like History repeated. He told us a story almost identical to what happened. How can that happen. Why would one fire exactly like one from history?"
"Sorry Sally but I am a little lost here. Maybe you had better speak to Pearce. He will be coming in in a while to see you."
Sally decided to change the subject. "What happened in space? Where did you go?"
"Things didn't quite happen as had been planned."
And he began to tell Sally about his stories, Hoping it would take her mind off of things for now.
The end of the shift came and went by pretty quickly after that. Not much happened and the mysterious man did not return.
The next morning they began their shift with rolecall, during which Recall noticed the man hanging around outside the station again. After they had been dismissed Recall went outside to see if the man was alright. He invited him in for a cup of tea which he greatfully accepted.
Upstairs he was telling them more about the fires he attended. Often not dissimilar from those that bluewatch experience now.
This activity carried on for about two weeks virtually the same as that first day. Rollcall was taken and the man came in for tea or coffee whilst he told them stories of firefighting heroes and dramas. No names were ever mentioned they accepted that he might want to keep it anonymous so that they didn't try and look up any more information about the firefighters and what became of them. When they were called out on a shout sometimes he would wait for their return and othertimes they returened to find him gone. Adam had not been seen for those two weeks now and they hadn't heared much from him since lift-off. But they just decided that he was probably crusing around the solar system without a care in the...... universe.
One morning the shift began as normal. Roll Call, chats with the man etc. He was talking about that one day when the rest of his watch were killed. He hadn't spoken much of it since the day he first came some three weeks earlier.
"It was a warm day but overcast...... They had apparently been called to a hospital near Canary Warf. It was serious and had watches from 4 different stations attending. Blackwall's Bluewatch had somehow managed to draw the short straw...... (They arrived first anyway) and were sent into the building to search for survivors. Most of the patients and staff had gotten out but they had to make a full check of the whole hospital to make sure. They were split into pairs and were instructed to work together through the area to search whilst the officers from the other stations put out the fire and secured the area."
At this point he became overcome with emotion. Sally went and sat next to him and gave him a hug saying that he didn't need to carry on telling them if the didn't want to. But still he ignored her and struggled through as if he felt they had to know about it.
"It was unclear how it happened but the whole of the watch got trapped in one room which had become competly cut off from their way out. The floor had collapsed in and theywere buried in rubble. There was no way they could get out of it so they had to wait for the others outside to resuce them. By the time they had come into the building only three members remained consious the others overcome by the smoke and heat had slipped unconsious or had been knocked out by the impact from the fallin debris which had covered them. When they had got them out and to hospital the results were devistating. Three were suffereing from heat exaustion, all had major injuries, one had had his skull broken in to three parts by the presure of the material around him.
Only one member had survived the ordeal. The man told how he had heared about it on a radio where he had been staying whilst he was off work and returned immediatly. The survivor, a female firefighter and friend of his told him of their ordeal and he was shocked beyond belief."
Bluewatch were all so diappointed when the bells began ringing and they were called to a shout.
"Fire at a....... hospital....... Eddison square Pump and Pump ladder, c'mon guys lets go!" Yelled George and they all jumped into the appliences.
They feel it is a slight coinsidence but shrug it off. Nothing is a coincidence with their job. Fire is often unpredicted so they didn't think about it.
At their destination they are amazed at the huge scale of the fire. It had engulfed the whole of the building and to make matters worse there were people streaming all over the place. Hospital beds were littered along the sides of the road, some empty and some with patients laying on them, some surrounded by doctors and nurses. They were the first station with firefighters on the scene but were closely followed by bridgewater from the north of the site and about 2 minutes later by another from the area. The area commander was also on the scene in no time at all. He instructed blackwall to get kitted up in BA Gear whilst Bridgewater tried to control the crowds and begin fighting the fire. As Bluewatch were suiting themselves up in BA Gear the last station arrived on the scene.... Chadbrook, last as usual. But the watches didn't conflict, not tonight, there were too many lives a risk for joking.
BA Control takes their numbers and they enter the inferno. George alongslide Hyper push through the flames followed by the rest of their crew. They had been instructed to keep together for now as there was too much of a possibility of them becoming split and so weakened. They enter into what appears to be a short corridor with a number of rooms comeing off of it. Explosions ripping through walls and parts of the ceiling collapsed in the distance. It appeared impossible to search the whole of this building from top to bottom the ceilings were becoming unstable and the amount of fuel and chemicals being kept there ment that there was a hugely increased risk of more explosions. They search the first room the come too off of the corridoor. It's clear, the same with the next. They came to some stairs which they cautiously approached and climbed. They looked down what was another long corridoor lined with swinging double doors all of which beared the entrance to a medical room of some kind. The last room on this floor was an operating theatre. It was at the far end of the coridoor where part of the floor had collapsed into the rooms below. It was unstable but the room needed clearing. George and Keri edged forward being shadowed by Sally and Recall the others held back slightly. But just then a sudden thundering roar and blast of flames rips from behind them. A wall of fire sprung up behind them and explosions caused the floors to shake. They were trapped by heated orange flames and dangerous livewires. There was no way out. The room which they were checking was black and sealed. No windows, no doors nothing. The watch went in, closed the door and sat down to discuss what they plan of action should be. The conclusion was that they just had to wait. They had taken only 4 radios between them, Hi-Ho tried his and was getting a spluttered response from BA control they could barely make out what they were saying. He tried again and the others were tried all with the same effect. Control could not hear them but they could just about hear control, for general words. It was hopeless. All they could do was wait. Just then there was a huge low rumble and the floor began to jolt and then fall downwards. The ceiling was collapsing again, only this time they were going with it. Sally lay there underneath rubble for what seemed like eternity. Her leg was caught under a concrete beam of somekind. She tried calling out to the others. Only Hi-ho responed. He called out to her and the two offered each other words of encouragement, until he fell silent. Sally began to panic. Minutes later she heared voices from farther off. It was members of Chadbrook coming in after them. She yelled and they responded telling her to stay calm and she would be out in no time. She had to keep shouting so that they could be guided by her voice. Minutes later she was being pulled free from the heap by two strong firefighters. With doctors on hand to give a full professional evaluation before whisking her off to another nearby hospital for treatment.
She didn't remember a whole lot after that until the awoke again in the hospital finding doctors milling around past her door . She looked around, she was in a small side room with bare white walls and plain blue curtains. She looked over towards the window. It was dark outside but she could see lights from nearby buildings. She had a tube going into her nose and had a drip in her arm. Trying to move and sit up she winced in pain. One of the nurses noticed she was awake and came in from the reception outside.
"Ahh your awake, Do you know where you are?"
"A hospital somewhere."
"Your in Kingston Hospital. You have been asleep for three days."
"Don't worry, I will let the doctor know you are awake and she will come through and speak to you as soon as possible. Oh and you had a visitor earlier, a man, sorry I don't know his name but he said he would be back tomorrow."
The Nurse left the room, Sally felt relieved and worried. She suddenly remembered the rest of her watch, and she wondered who her visitor was. She lay thinking for a while until the Doctor came into the room to see her.
"Hello Sally, I'm Doctor Bradley. How are you feeling?"
"I don't know, I cant feel my legs, and Im tired but apart from that I don't know."
"One of your legs is broken because you got buried under the rubble the other is just badly bruised. You have suffered some burns and several Brusies. Luckily you will be fine in no time. You will have to wear a cast for a few months and may need Physio so you may not be able to go back to work for sometime."
"Thank-you" She told the doctor greatfully "Can I ask, How are the others? The rest of my crew I mean?"
The Doctor sat down on the edge of Sally's Bed.
"I'm afraid none of them survived. They were crushed to death from the rubble. You were lucky that you were close to the edge of where it collapsed."
Sally began sobbing and the doctor leant down and put her hand on sally's shoulder trying to console her.
"Can we call someone for you?"
"No, There is no one I don't know where my family are"
"You had a visitor earlier. He didn't leave a name just said he would be back tomorrow. He was sat by your bed for about two hours."
The Doctor left her closing the door behind her to give Sally some privicy and peace. She lay there quietly thinking, tears streaming down her cheeks. She thought about every member of the watch.......... then she thought about Joe. She loved him and they were getting married, making a commitment but he was tradgically killed. This had upset her all over again just thinking about him she cried until she gradually fell asleep.
The next morning she awoke it was just before midday and she looked around and found a man sitting in the chair next to her. He was a middle aged man with short hair and she immediatly recognised him.
"Adam.......... how come your here? I thought you were in space?" She just managed to get her words out.
"I was, but I came straight back when I heared something on the radio. A lot happened whilst I was out there. "
"Who was that man?" Sally suddenly rememberd the old man who was at the station everyday for the past month up until the day of the fire.
"Which man?" Adam asked her. He hadn't been at the station so of course he thought didn't know what she was talking about.
"The old man at the station, he kept coming back everyday and was telling us about what happened at Blackwall whilst he was serving there. What happened a few days ago was like History repeated. He told us a story almost identical to what happened. How can that happen. Why would one fire exactly like one from history?"
"Sorry Sally but I am a little lost here. Maybe you had better speak to Pearce. He will be coming in in a while to see you."
Sally decided to change the subject. "What happened in space? Where did you go?"
"Things didn't quite happen as had been planned."
And he began to tell Sally about his stories, Hoping it would take her mind off of things for now.
