By Lori Kurtzman
The Columbus Dispatch
GAHANNA, Ohio — They laughed as they crawled on the floor, hoods over their heads, clawing for an exit. They had just 60 seconds to escape.
“You can’t breathe,” Mifflin Township Fire Lt. Mark Hendricks told them. “The carpet’s hot. It’s melting. What are you going to do?”
“Cry?” one student said. More laughter. But there was a sobering undercurrent to this exercise, a gravity that firefighters hoped these graduating seniors would feel. The name of the game was Get Out Alive. Only two of the four did.
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