by now, it has been almost two hours. paul is understandably exhausted. captain roy knows that no matter what plan he comes up with he ll need maximum effort from everybody involved, including 11-year-old paul. at the time, he was getting real sleepy, so i talked to him and asked, do you play baseball? he said, oh yeah. he perked up. i said, you know how you are out there and it is hot and you are tired and your coach wants to give you a little more physical effort and things to push yourself. and that actually kind of perked him up a bit more. captain roy runs through his options. none of the usual rescue techniques, pulley systems, drilling, powerful air vacs to separate rock seemed like they would work in this situation. and just then, it hits him. i thought of wesson oil, give him some lubrication. wesson oil, not a technique you learn in rescue school, but
completely spent. that s when i come up with i thought of wesson oil. give some lubrication. wesson oil, not something they teach in rescue school but captain roy thinks it might work. basically i just started pouring it on to him where i could at least splash a little bit. paul is coated in gallons of cooking oil and attached to a lifting strap to see if they can stretch his body. paul? i asked him do you play baseball? he said oh, yeah. he perked up, i said you know how it is when you re hot and you re tired and coach wants you to give you just a little bit more physical effort to push yourself? they were words paul understood. roy coaches paul to move his to his right as they pull from above. i m trying. it hurts. it s going to hurt. paul still doesn t budge. the rescuers start thinking about what else they can do.