One sentence from the news in Washington has remained in my mind since a trip last summer: “When you see people run against the crowd escaping 1 the danger, they are 2 (probable) firefighters, police or journalists.
I think this is most true for the firefighters. Whenever and wherever 3 (disaster) happen — 911 Attacks in New York 14 years ago or the explosion in Tianjin on Wednesday night — it is always the firefighters 4 take the lead to run to the very center, saving lives by 5 (risk) their own. I cried today near the explosion site, not because of the smoke from the ongoing fire 6 because of a short message a firefighter sent to a trusted friend that went viral online. It reads, “If I cannot make it, my father is 7 (you); and please remember 8 (sweep) my mother’s tomb.” I was thrilled later to learn that he did make it.
“Everyone knows it’s 9 (danger) to be a firefighter. But he has always liked it and has done it for 12 years,” his father said. “He survived this time, but no one knows what 10 (happen) next time.”
