Fire Department Rescue Team's Success Was About Focus

April 6, 2007 Texas - They took the hard way up, climbing five stories in a blazing building to search for a fallen comrade. As other firefighters outside used a truck ladder to go from window to window looking for downed Capt. Eric Abbt, members of the Houston Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team felt their way up a stairwell choked with dense smoke. Ultimately, Abbt was found and rescued by the firefighters on Ladder Truck 20, but the three team members had a tense moment of their own on the ...