Firefighters battle memories of blaze

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Pair were aboard engine overtaken by flames in Potrero during early hours of Harris inferno

By Tony Manolatos

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

October 19, 2008

They jumped from a burning fire engine and into a wall of flames. He dislocated a shoulder. She tore up a knee. Both were certain they were going to die, but somehow they survived.

Both were placed in a medically induced coma, and both woke up weeks later thinking not a day had passed.

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