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- I'm Specialist Jackson, Kellar Ray Wildhorse.

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My organic unit is 179.

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I am deployed here with alpha 279,

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and I am from Wantonga, Oklahoma.

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I ran to the smoke,

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and then we asked if anyone was still in there

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and instinctively we all just ran inside

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and started helping people get out.

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Inside, it was stuffy. Smoke. I could barely breathe.

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And it was kind of chaotic.

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Everyone was coming down while we were going up.

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We had one lady that didn't want to come out

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because she didn't want to leave her dogs.

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But it was kind of intense.

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We were there for 15 to 20 minutes

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before they actually got there.

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They kind of got us out, told us to get out of the way,

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so we just went outside and just watched

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as everyone got out.

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Made sure everyone got out safely.

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We went upstairs and were knocking on doors,

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and some people weren't even aware of the fire.

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Because I know if my family was in there,

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I would want to be in there firsthand

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trying to help them get out.

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But there's like,

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it was a thoughtless action.

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I would want someone to help me

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if I was stuck in a house

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and didn't know anything about the fire

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or anything that was going on around me.

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With the language barrier, it was pretty tough,

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so I was trying to pull my phone out,

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do Google Translation, and it just wasn't working.

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I am proud of what we did.

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I'm glad we did that.