# Amazing rescue of a construction worker from a residential complex on fire. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581 "2014-03-26T04:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/1 "2014-03-26T04:02:59Z")
Today, close to the AIG Campus in Houston: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Cg9PWSHL4Vg/maxresdefault.jpg "Fire Near AIG Campus") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg9PWSHL4Vg) Look at the end as the fire department guy on a ladder and the construction worker leave at the nick of time. Great job by the FD. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/2 "2014-03-26T04:30:47Z")
“Thank you Jesus!” For starting the fire? ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/3 "2014-03-26T06:59:43Z")
Wow, that is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/4 "2014-03-27T00:43:37Z")
The worker involved was construction supervisor Curtis Reissig. Fire Capt. Brad Hawthorne was a hero that day. [http://bostonherald.com/news\_opinion/national/southwest/2014/03/worker\_describes\_escape\_from\_burning\_building](http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/national/southwest/2014/03/worker_describes_escape_from_burning_building) > [@](#): > > Reissig declined to call his own actions heroic, saying the real heroes were the firefighters who rescued him and battled the blaze. > > “I’m just a guy who was caught in a bad situation, trying to escape,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/5 "2014-03-27T02:39:40Z")
Yeah, there have been some pretty amazing rescues. [This guy](http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/17/kingston-fire-traps-operator-on-edge-of-crane-as-massive-inferno-rages-below/) was plucked from the boom of his tower crane by helicopter while the building below burned… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/6 "2014-03-27T02:44:00Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Yeah, there have been some pretty amazing rescues. > > [This guy](http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/17/kingston-fire-traps-operator-on-edge-of-crane-as-massive-inferno-rages-below/) was plucked from the boom of his tower crane by helicopter while the building below burned… I’ve seen that before! It was the first thing I thought of after seeing the rescue in the OP. Dude had no more boom left, and it too reminded me of a rescue from a movie. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/7 "2014-03-27T04:12:10Z")
How many stunt men can swing forward and drop onto the next ledge? That takes balls of steel. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/8 "2014-03-27T04:15:41Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > How many stunt men can swing forward and drop onto the next ledge? That takes balls of steel. You’d be amazed how metallic one’s balls become when there is a raging inferno ten feet behind you. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/9 "2014-03-27T18:43:27Z")
No matter what, when he swung down I’ll bet it was hard to let go of the upper ledge. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-rescue-of-a-construction-worker-from-a-residential-complex-on-fire/684581/10 "2014-03-28T02:16:35Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > You’d be amazed how metallic one’s balls become when there is a raging inferno ten feet behind you. Whe that adrenaline kicks in, I’m betting there isn’t much you CAN’T do…:eek: