How does anyone get through this, especially those who are trained to save lives?

[MoonRiver]

https://news.yahoo.com/surfside-miami-building-collapse-7-year-old-firefighter-daughter-175448685.html

[mahina]

1. I don't really know how we get through anything without a broken heart

But it helps to know that “life is short and we don’t have long to comfort those who are on the path with us so be swift to love and make haste to be kind. May the divine mystery that surpasses all understanding which made us and loves us comfort us and keep us in peace.”
Liz Leavitt

[MoonRiver]

12. Yes

[malaise]

2. I couldn't

for sure

[Deuxcents]

3. They are our Angels

Firefighters. First responders. People who train animals to save lives, cops..all of them. They must have been blessed with a special gift to run into a disaster when the rest of us flee. Much love and heartfelt thanks for them. Never pass up an opportunity to tell em how appreciated they are.

[Scrivener7]

4. Oh my God. That is horrifying.

[WarGamer]

5. How about 9-11?

Hundreds of First Responders were under that rubble with their brothers picking them out...

[MoonRiver]

10. Of course!

[SharonClark]

6. A paragraph or two from the link would be

helpful.

[Catherine Vincent]

7. I don't see how they do it.

[flotsam]

8. It's the nature of the beast

Except for the super pros (read international search and rescue teams) the vast rank and file of emergency responders workers work in their home neighborhood and at some point one of the victims you work with is a friend, a neighbor, or even a close relative. I've said elsewhere I worked a building collapse in Connecticut in 1987. What I hadn't said before was my nephew was scheduled to work there that day but called in sick. I never found out until after I worked the site. 28 died and no rescues...

[Maru Kitteh]

9. I get through my work by holding to the belief that

it was better for me to be there than to not be there. My job is to comfort the dying, show compassion and empathy to the living, provide them with resources and show the deceased tenderness and respect, even when no one is looking.

It takes its toll, but I can't imagine another life.

[MoonRiver]

11. God bless you.

[Poiuyt]

13. I knew someone who went to major national disasters to provide counseling for the

counselors who were helping the victims.