This happened 30 years ago today.(5.5.1982)

Manabu Sato-Tokyo fire department firefighter- dispatched on the scene.

He managed to go to victims on the seventh floor and he protected the victims with his body against fire.

After the victims rode a lifter of an aerial ladder, he let it go.

Because he worried overweight.

So he grabbed another…

Some Japanese firefighters start a training called ‘Human ladder’. (I want to name it ‘Ninja’) This training is required teamwork. In this training you have to climb a wall without a ladder or any tools. ... What do you use to achieve the goal? You need to rely on your crew and to ask him to be a ‘step’. You can climb the wall with his back, shoulders, hands… When you think the step is your crew, you’ll care the crew (the…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7961208.stm

Great story!