SAM 009 | Interview with Captain John Wright - Close Call Survivor
On this episode we walk with Captain John Wright from the Flower Mound (Texas) Fire Department. Captain Wright survived an extremely close call while operating as an interior search crew at a residential dwelling fire.
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\nOn June 17, 2011 the Flower Mound Fire Department along with several mutual aid companies responded to a residential structure fire.\xa0 During the incident, Captain Wright and Firefighter Trujillo became overrun by fire on the second floor.\xa0 The rapidly increasing fire disorientated them and they became lost in the fire room.\xa0 After the Mayday was called, Firefighter Trujillo located two small windows on the wall opposite of where the fire had broken through the wall.\xa0 Both men made a narrow escape seconds before the room flashed. \xa0
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\nAs you listen you\u2019ll hear him share some very strong lessons related to numerous situational awareness barriers. You\u2019ll hear him share how he was:
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\n\xb7\xa0\xa0Afflicted by a sense of urgency
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How muscle memory from past training impacted his performance
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How unconscious competency benefited him
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How he suffered from tunnel vision and why tunnel vision isn\u2019t anything like what he\u2019d thought it would be
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How he suffered from time distortion
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How his hearing was impacted from auditory exclusion
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How he knew what to do, intuitively, but ignored the warning signs.
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How complacency crept into his mindset
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How his rational judgment became impairment under stress
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How he experienced self-talk and how it almost killed him.
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How he resigned himself to the fact that he was going to die and how he simply laid down on the floor to give up. And while he was\xa0laying\xa0there on the floor, in that super heated environment, how he took time to say goodbye to his 3 year-old son.
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0How, while laying there, he said to himself: All I have to do is wait for this to burn through my spinal cord and as soon as it gets through that, it will be over and the pain will stop.
\n\xb7\xa0\xa0What caused him to get up and get moving\xa0again.
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