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Two Flower Mound firefighters who had a brush with death this summer are telling other firefighters not to wait to ask for help.
Capt. John Wright and Firefighter Gus Trujillo nearly died while battling a house fire in June while searching the second floor of the home after the report of a possible entrapment, according to KXAS-TV.
Conditions quickly worsened and the two men were unable to find their way out.
"I've had a few close calls in my career but never thought, 'I'm dead. This is it,'" Wright told the news station.
He reached for his radio and called a Mayday.
That was the first time the distress call had been used by one of the department's members.
Firefighters rushed into the house while they began looking for another way out.
"The only thing I could hear is my heartbeat," Trujillo said. "I could hear the radio traffic 100 miles away, and you're in the zone, pretty much. I can't explain it."
The two men located two small windows and pounded on them until they broke.
Trujillo climbed onto the roof, but his partner was unable to make it out after his air pack became caught on the window frame.
Wright said he was close to giving up all hope, but Trujillo tried to rescue him from the roof, pulling his body through the frame.
He finally made it out and the two made it down to safety.
Both men were burned and Wright was left with a reminder of what happened that day. Trujillo's handprint was burned into his wrist where he grabbed him.
"I'd have died for sure if he hadn't done that," Wright said.
The two firefighters are back at work and want to share their story with others across the country.
