they had to build it using trusses and pieces that could fit in the confines of an lc-130. male pilot: it s a fun job, and it s important to scientists, it s fantastic. anthony: in just a few hours, we cross the ross ice shelf, fly up the beardmore glacier into the heart of antarctica, the polar plateau. how many miles from mcmurdo to the pole? around female pilot: 735 miles. anthony: scott walked that? what was going through his mind? male pilot: they loved to suffer. anthony: the first explorers who got here or came close, raced across the continent, striving to be the first. amundson made it before anyone in 1911, beating scott by only 34 days. amundson wisely used huskies to pull his sleds across the ice. scott didn t and his team never made it back alive. the south pole. what you might not know or be prepared for is the south pole is high, like 9,000 feet above
built the station actually came on one of these c-130 s. they had to build it with trusses and pieces that could fit in the confines of an lc-130. male pilot: it s a fun job, and it s important to scientists, it s fantastic. anthony: in just a few hours, we cross the ross ice shelf, fly up the beardmore glacier into the heart of antarctica the polar plateau. how many miles from mcmurdo to the pole? around female pilot: 735 miles. anthony: scott walked that? what was going through his mind? male pilot: they loved to suffer. anthony: the first explorers who got here or came close, raced across the continent, striving to be the first. amundson made it before anyone in 1911, beating scott by only 34 days. amundson wisely used huskies to pull his sleds across the ice. scott didn t and his team never made it back alive. the south pole. what you might not know or be prepared for is the south pole is high, like 9,000 feet above
anthony: another c-130. the big, gorgeous workhorse of the antarctic gets you to the ass end of the planet. where it s north every direction you go. bottom of the world. male pilot: so i like to say this is the biggest airplane you can do little airplane things with, sea ski planes or float planes and we re trying to do those same types of missions with a c-130, which is unusual. female pilot: everything that built the station actually came on one of these c-130 s. they had to build it with trusses and pieces that could fit in the confines of an lc-130. male pilot: it s a fun job,
built the station actually came on one of these c-130 s. they had to build it with trusses and pieces that could fit in the confines of an lc-130. male pilot: it s a fun job, and it s important to scientists, it s fantastic. anthony: in just a few hours, we cross the ross ice shelf, fly up the beardmore glacier into the heart of antarctica the polar plateau. how many miles from mcmurdo to the pole? around female pilot: 735 miles. anthony: scott walked that? what was going through his mind? male pilot: they loved to suffer. anthony: the first explorers who got here or came close, raced across the continent, striving to be the first. amundson made it before anyone in 1911, beating scott by only 34 days. amundson wisely used
wood. these are concrete. exactly right. being an arson investigator my whole life and bomb and arson doing that my whole life, my father being a firefighter for 33 years, i don t even go in a hotel i don t count the doors to the fire exit, i don t know where every fire exit is, i don t know how to get out i always do that. everybody needs to pay attention to that stuff. tragically a lot of people died here. it moved real fast. a lot of them probably died from the smoke. they probably got smoke inhalation before the fire got to them. but the fire load de in this building, you see this tremendous fire lode. that s your furniture, your carpet, your drapes, all the wood construction, all of that s combustible materials that will burn very hot. of course inside as you point out the cinderblock, it keeps it in. what s so hazardous now for the teams recovering the people inside also for the investigators is those steel trusses as you see them going across the warehouse, we normally would