CENTRAL ASIA (BP) -- His world was going up in flames -- literally.
Firefighter Christopher Ryan* was engulfed by pitch-black smoke and
scorching heat amid an intense blaze on the second floor of a townhome
when he and his partner, a veteran firefighter, realized they couldn't
find the way out.
"I heard my partner screaming ... [telling] us to get out as fast as we could," Ryan remembers.
But
he couldn't see a thing. Worse, his fire hose was stuck somewhere in
the building and couldn't be freed. Still green from firefighters'
school, his instructors' words echoed in Ryan's mind: "Never leave the
hose. It's your lifeline."
And in that moment, Ryan says, time stood still.
"I
had [what seemed] like an hour-long conversation right there with God,"
he says. "He pretty much affirmed that I wasn't saved and that if He
were to allow me to die right then in that fire, I would be burning in
hell that instant."
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