Firefighters' Nightmare A Vacant House

June 16, 2007 New York - Capt. Mark Morganti has been injured fighting blazes at three separate vacant house fires over his career but that's nothing unusual for city firefighters. His closest brush with death came about eight years ago, when he and his crew were in the attic of an abandoned house where they had just put out a fire. Morganti heard a terrible creaking sound, and the roof suddenly collapsed on his team. Despite injuries to his back, he escaped to safety by crawling through a 2-by-2-foot ...