March 25, 2014 — Around 12:30 p.m., construction supervisor Curtis Reissig, 56, is eating lunch at a Houston site when fire is reported on the roof of the $50 million, 396-unit apartment complex his crew is building in the Montrose district; he goes up with a fire extinguisher, but wind drives the fire across the roof and traps him on a fifth-floor balcony March 25, 2014 — Across the street, office worker Karen Jones films on her cell phone as Reissig swings down to the fourth-floor balcony, then jumps a two-foot gap onto the Houston Fire Department's aerial ladder — Captain Brad Hawthorne waiting at the top, Dwayne Wyble driving the truck; four to five seconds after Hawthorne grabs him, the fifth floor and roof collapse March 25, 2014 — The fire goes to five alarms with some 200 firefighters; all roughly 90 workers on the site get out, and Reissig is the only injury — minor burns to his face and hand — while the nearly finished complex is a total loss; investigators believe the fire started on the roof, possibly from a welder's torch March 26, 2014 — Reissig and Hawthorne return to the site and pose together — a brief celebration before both go back to work March 27, 2014 — Seated beside Hawthorne and Wyble on the TODAY show, Reissig refuses the hero label: "I was running away from the inferno, trying to save myself. These guys run to and into infernos to try to save other people. I shouldn't even be here." 2015 — CNN's Caught on Camera brings Reissig and Hawthorne back together; Hawthorne counts the coincidences — an earlier call that put Station 18 two miles closer, seventeen intersections, barely a red light: "It was too many things to line up." Status — Reissig recovered from his burns and returned to work; the Karen Jones video of his escape remains one of the most watched rescue recordings ever made, and the record of his life after it is the one he and Hawthorne gave in these interviews — no verified later chapter has been reported #Houston #Texas #FireRescue #Firefighters #HoustonFireDepartment - @thatssourr