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At first, Michael Surrell didn't see the black smoke or flames shooting from the windows of his neighbors' home.
起初，邁克爾·索雷爾沒(méi)有看到鄰居家窗戶里冒出黑煙或火焰。
He and his wife had just parked around the corner from their own house in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
他和他的妻子剛剛把車停在賓夕法尼亞州艾倫鎮(zhèn)他們家的拐角處，
when they got a call from one of his daughters: "The house next door is on fire!"
這時(shí)他們接到了一個(gè)女兒的電話：“旁邊的房子著火了！”
He went to investigate. That's when he saw two women and a girl hysterical on their porch.
他去一探究竟。就在那時(shí)他看到兩個(gè)女人和一個(gè)女孩在門廊上歇斯底里。
"The baby's in there!" one of the women cried. Though the fire department had been called, Surrell, then 64, instinctively ran inside.
其中一個(gè)女人哭著說(shuō)，“寶寶還在里面！”盡管已經(jīng)撥打了消防部門的電話，但是64歲的索雷爾還是本能地沖了進(jìn)去。
"The baby" was 8-year-old Tiara Roberts, the woman's granddaughter and a playmate of Surrell's three youngest kids, then 8, 10, and 12.
女人所說(shuō)的寶寶是8歲的蒂娜拉·羅伯茨，她是這個(gè)女人的孫女，也是索雷爾三個(gè)最小的孩子的玩伴，當(dāng)時(shí)他們分別是8歲、10歲和12歲。
The other two on the porch were Tiara's aunt and cousin.
門廊上的另外兩個(gè)人是蒂娜拉的姨媽和堂兄。
Entering the burning house was like "running into a bucket of black paint," Surrell says.
索雷爾說(shuō)，進(jìn)到著火的房子就像是“撞到一桶黑漆”。
The thick smoke caused him to stumble blindly around, burned his eyes, and made it impossible to breathe.
濃煙使他盲目地跌跌撞撞地走著，他的眼睛被燒傷，無(wú)法呼吸。
The conditions would have been hazardous for anyone, but for Surrell, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, they were life-threatening.
這種情況對(duì)任何人都有害，但是對(duì)患有慢性阻塞性肺病的索雷爾來(lái)說(shuō)，它們是會(huì)威脅生命的。
After a few minutes in the smoke-filled house, he retreated outside to catch his breath. "Where is Tiara?" he asked desperately.
在充滿濃煙的房子里待了幾分鐘后，他撤出來(lái)吸口氣。他焦急地問(wèn)道，“蒂娜拉在哪里？”
"The second floor," her aunt shouted back. Surrell knew he couldn't hold his breath for long.
她的姨媽喊道，“在二樓。”索雷爾知道他不能憋氣太久。
So he uttered a little prayer: "Well, Lord, this is it. You gotta help me, because I'm not coming out without that little girl."
所以他許了個(gè)小愿望：“老天，就是這樣。你得幫幫我，因?yàn)槲沂遣荒馨涯莻€(gè)小女孩救出來(lái)的。”
Taking a deep breath, he went in a second time. The darkness was overwhelming. Yet because the house had a similar layout to his, he found the stairs and made it to the second floor.
深吸一口氣，他再次跑了進(jìn)去。黑暗幾乎將他吞噬。但是，因?yàn)檫@個(gè)房間有和他家類似的格局，所以他找到了樓梯，爬上了二樓。
He turned to the right and was met by intense heat. He was already out of breath.
他轉(zhuǎn)向右邊，酷熱撲面而來(lái)。他已經(jīng)上氣不接下氣了。
"Baby girl, where are you?" His throat and lungs burned as if he'd inhaled fire instead of the smoke and soot in the air.
“小女孩，你在哪里？”他的喉嚨和肺都灼傷了，好像他吸入的是火，而不是空氣中的煙塵。
Every blink stung his eyes. All he could hear was the crackling and popping of burning wood.
每一次眨眼都刺痛他的眼睛。他只能聽(tīng)到燃燒的木頭發(fā)出的噼啪聲。
