Lt. Cash Cortazzo of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire keeps a fire burning inside the burn room during a training exercise at the Allegheny County Fire Academy in McCandless on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (Massoud Hossaini | TribLive)
Maxwell Bulger felt his heart racing as tongues of orange fire shot over his head.
The swirling flames dancing on the ceiling seemed surreal as he crouched under a thickening blanket of smoke. Temperatures climbed to around 900 degrees…