Today's action: Fire in the night

A housefire is always something that affects one's emotions deeply. When people get hurt, or even worse, with loss of life, the pain must be unbearable. The worst scenario maybe is when a housefire is in the middle of the night. Being asleep in bed when a fire breaks out must be the most frightening thing to happen in your own home, where you think you are safe.

Exactly this happened last night, when the emergency services were called to a housefire in the west end of Almere at 1.30 am. Two people living there were still in the house, while the bedroom was on fire. The police got there first but could not do anything to help the man and woman because of the smoke that had already filled the house. Fire engines arrived shortly after the police and a search was started. Soon the two were found and taken out of the house. The woman could walk out herself, but the man was unconscious and was not breathing, so CPR was started immediately and he was rushed to hospital.

Focusing on the police officers getting there first, thinking about the fact that there is nothing much they can do, again makes you realise that the job they do can be so hard at times. They are there to serve and protect, but there are limits to what they can do, limits they absolutely wouldn't want to exist.

Fortunately in this case the firefighters got there quickly too, and I can only hope they were in time to save both woman and man, although no further information has been made public yet about their condition. Still, these police officers that got there first were going through the toughest moments of all that were involved. They are true heroes that had to deal with this fire in the night.