A firefighter was pinned to a wall when the ceiling collapsed in a burning house on Toxteth's Welsh Streets.
Lee Hunter, 44, said: "It was surreal. I didn't see it coming. It sort of flapped, so part of it was still attached and it pushed me into the wall. The other firefighter I was with, we look back and laugh about it now because he actually said to me, 'Just stay there a minute'."
Realising how different that story could have been, the 44-year-old dad from Aigburth vomited behind a fire engine after his colleague cut him out with an axe. Lee wanted to be a firefighter since he was a kid, being drawn to the hero status of a "professional problem solver", but the job can put a huge amount of stress on the minds and bodies of firefighters who enter buildings prepared to give their lives to save others.
