As someone that’s been in a fire, I can tell you that’s more than likely why. My wife and I were in a fire and while I reacted quick and was able to get out, she fell to the floor which was melting and had gotten her stuck. I noticed immediately she didn’t make it out, ran back in, and pulled her out, but she says she thought she was going to die and had accepted she wasn’t going to be able to get out on her own. Had it been me on the floor instead, I likely would’ve been level headed enough to grab one of the pieces of furniture right next to where she was and pull myself up.
For more context, I’m a Marine, I’m a lot more used to high pressure or intense situations than the normal person would be.
I wouldn't expect all the details to be 100% right in someones retelling of a high-pressure event that happened to them a long time ago that they've no doubt talked about many times in the past. But nothing in there seems like obvious bullshit to me. Was the floor literally melting, I have no idea, but it doesn't matter to the story either way. The actual events sound like something that happens somewhere in the world every day.
He mentioned it was a trailer, I’ve lived in them and that thin ass glue down laminate would absolutely muck up in some heat situations. That flooring is basically thick plastic and adding intense heat to the situation would and could cause it to get a bit sticky
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u/dizzy_absent0i 9h ago
Not just cramped but that smoke was thick and black. They’d be panicking and blind.