Burning Roof Collapses on Pennsylvania Chief
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. --
The chief of a volunteer fire department said he was able to escape after a roof of a burning home collapsed on him in Slippery Rock Township.
"The roof collapsed on one of our firefighters. It's just a horrible feeling when you hear 'mayday,'" said Slippery Rock Township Fire Department Assistant Chief Mark Strobel.
The chief of the department, Bill Lunn, said he used his hose to help himself out of the burning home.
"I got trapped for a little bit," Lunn said. "All I did was got the hose, shooting it down the back of my neck and started wiggling around and got myself out."
Lunn said he doesn't think he did anything special and is glad no one was hurt.
"I'm not trying to sound like a macho man, but this stuff happens. Fortunately, no one got hurt. I just feel bad that I got that many people worked up over it, over something out of my control," Lunn said.
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