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Jonathan Tyrell and Art Wittner represented the pair of human interest stories that arose from yesterday's Story of the Day (text link), the furniture showroom blaze in Charleston SC that killed nine firefighters. Wittner was the lone survivor of the seven-member Fire Company 16. ABC's Steve Osunsami explained that as the engineer, it was Wittner's job to drive the truck and maintain the water pressure--so he was not inside the burning building when his comrades died. Tyrell was trapped in a small workroom at the Sofa Super Store. When the blaze started he tried to get out through the warehouse and saw "stacks of furniture three stories high on fire," as CBS' Kelly Cobiella put it. He retreated, called 911, waited for five minutes and was pulled out "just before the roof collapsed."
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