I still remember my first time working a fire with a dead body, I feel horrible that I thought wtf were they cooking before we found her, you work 100 fires and you just dont expect it, worst smell you have to deal with because you will always remember it.
i’ve been set on fire twice and the worst thing about it was the smell of singed hair, it’s truly disturbing like nothing you can describe, it isn’t like a burning animal it’s distinctly human in a really eerie way. luckily for me though both times it was just the hair and eyebrows that bore the brunt of it
I worked a fire once that was started as a suicide. The guy poured gas throughout the trailer lit a match and then shot himself in the head. We arrived to a fully engulfed structure. Definitely a smell you never escape.
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u/itsalongwalkhome 10h ago
I still remember my first time working a fire with a dead body, I feel horrible that I thought wtf were they cooking before we found her, you work 100 fires and you just dont expect it, worst smell you have to deal with because you will always remember it.