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Rakibul Hasan’s fire truck was the first to arrive at a burning warehouse in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But after a devastating explosion, all 15 people who were with him are either dead, missing or injured.<\/p>\n
Five of Hasan’s colleagues have lost their lives, two are missing, trusted dead, and seven have been seriously injured by the burns.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old who became a firefighter three years ago was in the water truck when the massive explosion lit up the night sky a few miles away.<\/p>\n
When he went outside he faced the massacre of the bodies of friends and colleagues in front of him.<\/p>\n
“I can never forget that. “All my colleagues died before my eyes, I do not know how I escaped alive,” Bappy told AFP.<\/p>\n
Firefighters in Bangladesh are poorly equipped and underpaid, but for rural families it is an opportunity to escape poverty.<\/p>\n
Hasan is the only child of a farming family and when he got the job he believed he was the luckiest man.<\/p>\n
“It was a proud moment for my parents and me, because I would serve the nation,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We worked so many nights together, we had the same background, I know how devastating their deaths are for families,” adds the survivor.<\/p>\n
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