Here’s the emergency from last time:
And here’s the situation:
“…… the firemen are thirty feet from the base of the main front wall of “Wobbling Heights”, set on fire by a mysterious arsonist. The ten storey building will cover around one hundred and sixty feet when it falls. What will they do?”
And page 2 says that the solution is:
“The firemen ran straight towards the base of the building. They reasoned that the lowest part of the wall might stand intact. They were right. The façade cracked eight feet from the base of the building against which they were flattened. And, as the crumbling masonry fell outward, they were unharmed.”
Well, I didn’t get anywhere near that solution. I just thought to run sideways would do the job. Silly me.
This fire was in Sao Paulo, and, because nobody stood anywhere near it, nobody was injured.
John Knifton 