Construction worker rescued in Houston 5-alarm fire tells his story
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Above is raw video of an interview with Curtis Reissig, the construction superintendent who barely escaped Tuesday’s 5-alarm fire that destroyed a $50 million luxury apartment complex under construction in Houston, Texas. Reissig suffered minor burns to his hands and face.
Scott Noll & Malini Basu, KHOU-TV:
Reissig said he was in a construction trailer when another worker called him and said one of the buildings in the under-construction apartment complex was on fire.
Reissig, a superintendent on the jobsite, grabbed a fire extinguisher and went to the roof.
He said the fire initially looked small, but grew faster than he ever imagined.
As the wind pushed the flames through the building, Reissig was trapped.
Now inside, he was looking for a way out of the choking smoke.
“I said, ‘I can’t get fresh air. I’m going to suffocate right here. I’m going to collapse,’” Reissig said.
“I said, ‘I’m going to die right here. I got to do something,'” Curtis Reissig, 56, told reporters outside of his home in Conroe, Texas.
“I said, ‘God, you got to get me out of here.'”
He said that once he realized he was stuck on the fifth floor and flames got closer and hotter, he decided to swing down to the fourth-floor ledge.
