Firefighters' screams led to heroic rescue

A week after flames engulfed Southern California, several firefighters are trying to forget the screams that pushed them to make a heroic rescue.

A shrill voice pierced Ray Chaney's headset as he flew a small plane about a mile above the U.S.-Mexico border on October 21. The air traffic controller looked helplessly at the sea of flames below.

The desperate call for help crackled on firefighter radio frequencies for miles around, signaling to fire crews that somewhere, deep in the smoke, a wall of flames had overcome four firefighters. They had been trying to save a man and his son, who were stranded in a hilltop home.

"There was one scream and then a series of them," Chaney said. "I really try not to think about it."...More?

source: cnn.com