Firefighter suffers third-degree burns – this is him 11 years later

said. “My hose [was] already melted.”

He managed to escape through a window, but his head and upper body were already on fire, and Patrick suffered horrific injuries.

“For somebody who does what we do for a living, I’ve never seen anybody burned that bad that was still alive,” friend and first responder Jimmy Neal recalled of seeing Hardison after the continue reading …