a reporter under attack. >> don't stand in front of my [ bleep ] -- >> a referee down on the mat. >> he head butted me in the left temple, and it was light's out. and the next thing you know, somebody yelled, it is going to wrong way. >> a falling tower sends a cameraman and others for cover. a police officer faces a out of control chimp. >> are you kidding me? this chimp is going ape on my car. >> they are on the job facing unbelievable situations. >> and all of the sudden, i just feel the blast of water hit me, and that the was it. >> from bizarre -- >> obviously, this guy is not who he says he was.

>> -- to death defying. >> i just wanted to save myself. >> get him out to the front. get him out to the front. >> "caught on camera, occupational hazard. ". welcome to "caught on camera" i'm contessa brewer. regardless of the job, it is sure to have pitfalls, but somes turn out to be quite a surprise. in the next hour we will meet people who come up with incredible situations who make a tough call. like the high school referee in a wrestling match and then he goes down for the count. for referee bob west, it starts out like any other high school wrestling match, and two opponents locked in an intense

battle. one is pinned. he doesn't like the call. that is not unusual in a heated sports competition. but watch what happens next. bob west lives in spokane, washington, with his wife and daughter. in 1996, he's caught on camera making a routine call one second -- >> completely blindsided me. >> knocked unconscious the next. >> it was a wrestling match between call vevail high school >> and the opponent on the right in black is west valley's josh kelt. >> the hype of the match was pretty extensive, and this would

determine who the league champion was going to be. i think that both teams were undefeatedt that particular point. >> both students are seniors. both weigh 190 pounds. >> it started out very aggressive. some shoving and things that are not up usual for a wrestling match, but it didn't raise to the level of penalizing, and more of just a verbal warning to keep it clean type of thing. >> at one point 17-year-old chald hildebrand appears to gouge the eyes of the competitor. >> i didn't actual ly see it, s i could not penalize for it, but after viewing the tape, it was pretty obvious, so it was an aggressive match. >> the aggressive behavior of chad hildebrand is about to escalate. >> we were in the third period, and hildebrand was on his back, and what i am looking for is to see that both shoulder blades are down for two-second count. >> when referee bob west sees the pin, he slaps the floor and

the round, and hildebrand is not happy with the call. >> he jumps up, and throws the shoulder against the opponent trying to intimidate him and then i try to step in between and put up a finger and tell him to back off, because that is going to cost you a team point, and as i turn to the coach to notify him that he was penalized for a head butbutt, it was like light's out. >> he is knocked out cold. >> and the medic came down immediately to tell me that i was quit breathing for ten seconds. >> it was agonized for speck spectators as the paramedics tend to west. then he comes to. >> i remember turning to the coach, and then i don't remember anything after that until being raised up off of the mat. >> west is eventually helped to his feet, and the crowd cheers.

>> i just remember a bunch of people around me, an them they escorted me back into the principal's office. >> west leaves the gymnasium and then -- >> the match was stopped. it was called. i could not continue. >> west doesn't appear to be injured at first, but looks are deceiving. >> i had some intense hakds and the next morning, i went to the emergency room, and they said that i had a concussion. >> west also has a broken rib. >> if you look at the tape, it shows him not only did he head butt me, but he actually pushed at the same time accelerating the force backward which caused the broken rib. >> soon after the assault, the video goes public. >> i got hundreds of e-mails after, after the event happened, and people saw it on individuvi. i think that this is the first time that they have actually caught that type of assault on video, and there was a lot of

outrage, and it was a rallying cry for sports officials. >> hildebrand is convicted off fourth-degree assault and sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year of probation, and 100 hours of community service. the 1996 s we awrestling match the last time that chad hildebrand will have a run-in with the law. in 1997, he is charge and later convicted of vehicular assault. west who works in law enforce tries to visit hildebrand in jail. >> i tried to contact him, and he refused to see me. >> 12 years later in april of 2008, hilderbrant makes news again charged with domestic violence against his wife. he pleads guilty and serves 27 months in prison. meanwhile, west says he will never forget that day in 1996 when chad hilderbrant changed his life. >> to date, i have had two neck

sur surgeries and still have headaches and a lot of bad memories. >> west hopes that no other referee will ever have to endure this kind of occupational hazard. >> for most part most officials are out there for the love of the game, and the last thing that they would expect is to be assaulted. an implosion turns to disaster, and it is one huge occupational hazard for a photographer. >> your life was flashing before your eyes, and it is november 2010, and the countdown begins. >> nine, eight -- >> a smokestack is set to implode. samantha summers, a reporter with the "springfield news sun" in ohio and her colleague marshall corby is a photographer and videographer, and the two are assigned to cover the implosion story. >> it was to be cut and dry and

show up and know what to expect. >> it is kind of like a christmas present for us, to get there to shoot something like that. >> and it was about 25 people, and 25 to 30 people assembled and mostly media, tv, and newspapers. >> everyone is a few hundred feet from where the tow ser supposed to fall, including the children seen here. >> the demolition company tours the country to do large-scale demolitions with the children in tow. >> they didn't want to see them in front, because they wanted to see the tower fall. they started counting. >> two one -- >> then you hear a poof, poof. then they are standing there looking at it. there is a pause as you are waiting for the next round of charges. >> then you hear the poof, poof. >> and then you start to see it teeter, and the next thing you hear somebody yell, it is going to wrong way. >> wrong way! >> then it started to lean more dramatically to the south, and that was the wrong direction.

>> and then one of the little girls takes off running like a r rabbit and that should have been my first clue that she was smart enough to run, but wiz not that sma smart. >> but a greater danger that samantha and marshall have not seen. an electric company suddenly realized that we were all standing underneath the power lines and started screaming for everybody to get back. >> amazingly marshall is not thinking about himself, but his camera. >> i had my camera set up for it to fall right, and it was going left. so i took the time to turn my cameras to the littlest bit. >> i turn around and took off runnin running. >> the tower comes crashing down on the power station and snaps electrical lines. >> and as it hit, i saw explosions, and then i saw line s flowing and i felt something scrape my arm and that is when i realized that i am not in a good spot. >> that something is a power

line. luckily for marshall, it is a dead wire. >> you could hear the impact of the tower finally hitting the ground. and i turned around and looked over my shoulder, and you could see dust billowing up. >> fortunately for everyone involved, there are no injuryie. >> it is a miracle that nobody is hurt. >> those power lines were flying through the air, and if they had not moved they easily could have been injure d. >> when marshall looks at the video for the first time, he is stunned. >> i look at the video, and i say, my god, i had no idea it was that close. >> what went wrong with the demoliti demolition, why did the tower naul the wrong drirection? samantha starts to make calls. >> the demolition crew at the scene declined to talk to us, and later that evening, i was able to get the company on the phone, and what they believed is what happened is that there was an undetected crack in the tower and the structural integrity of it was weaker than they thought.

>> marshall says at the end of the day, he was relieved that he was able to keep his wits about him in the ordeal. >> i was smart enough to see the camera so that you could see the whole thing happen. it is incredible video, and gone all over the country and the world, and it is like catching a little piece of history. >> coming up -- >> a reporter's investigation turns into an all-out brawl. later, news anchors duped. >> we never had a guest that was not legit. >> wait until you see this. yo-yo champ. >> oh! >> when "caught on camera, occupational hazard" continues. my house is where plants came to die. but, it turns out all i was missing was miracle-gro potting mix. it's got what a plant needs like miracle-gro plant food that feeds them for up to six months. you get bigger, healthier plants, guaranteed. who's got two green thumbs thanks to miracle-gro? ah, this gal.

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it's an unbelievable sight at an eyeglass store. >> oh, i'm sorry. did i hit you? >> a store owner in a fit of rage. >> standing in front of my [ bleep ] door. >> a television reporter

physically attacked. >> whoa, what you going to hit me? you going to hit me? get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> then the arrival of police. >> [ bleep ] you. >> february 2007. toronto, canada. peter silverman is city tv's consumer reporter. he goes to confront local optician adam plimer about claims of shady dealings with sunglasses. >> a guy sent us an e-mail saying that he bought these oakley glasses, frames, from plimer. he had broken them, which he felt was a bit unusual because oakley had a reputation of being unbreakable. >> so silverman sends the glasses in question off to oakley. >> they said these are not our frames. >> he later gets a complaint about some gucci frames from plimer's shop as well. >> they definitely reported back

to us that no, these are phony, that they were counterfeit. >> plimer denies that accusation and before this february 2007 attack, silverman has several conversations with plimer both on the phone and face-to-face. >> he refused to acknowledge what he was doing all the way down the pike. >> then one morning, silverman says he receives an unusual call from plimer. >> we got that famous phone call in the morning of saying that he had found god, he found religion, he was going to pay restitution, he wanted to talk to me. >> silverman arrives at adam plimer's optical store and is blindsided by what follows. >> oh, i'm sorry. did i hit you? >> he opens it up and just slams it in my face. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> then he grabs the papers out of my arm and starts whacking me with those. >> what, you going to hit me? you going to hit me? >> it just escalated. >> plimer even spits on

silverman. >> every time he comes out he seems a little more enraged. >> at one point, silverman tries to keep plimer inside his store hoping he'll calm down. >> i didn't want him to get out on the street because i was worried that he might really lose it. the real issue was i didn't want to get into a brawl with this guy, because as a reporter, there is a line, but i didn't think i was at a point where this guy was going to try to really kill me. and then he makes a big mistake. he starts throwing snowballs at a commission inspector standing on the corner. >> he also takes a shot at silverman's cameraman. the inspector immediately calls the cops. seeing the police enrages plimer even more. >> when they go to get him, he slams the door in their face.

then he barricades himself inside. >> then the emergency task force is called in. canada's version of the s.w.a.t. team. >> the etf has to be deployed because you could have a hostage situation. who knows what he's got inside there. >> cops tell plimer that he can come out the easy way or the hard way. >> plimer took about 30 or 40 seconds and said okay, he's coming out. so he came out and snatch, they grabbed him and cuffed him and took him off in a car. >> just as quickly, the video makes its way to the television air waves and beyond. >> a tv reporter's run-in with a store owner has led to criminal charges in canada. take a look at this. >> it hit youtube and apparently got hundreds of thousands of hits. i was kind of flattered by the fact that people were viewing this all over the world. >> in november 2008, plimer is convicted of assaulting silverman and his cameraman. he's ordered to undergo psychological counseling.

plimer is never charged with selling counterfeit goods but his business soon folds. silverman says bringing down adam plimer was never his intention. >> my goal was restitution, that he would refund the money to the people who bought the phony or counterfeit frames. i really didn't want plimer to be led away in handcuffs. that wasn't the object of the exercise. he went overboard and ended up in the situation where he ended up in court. which is a shame. >> if you thought that canadian reporter had a tough day on the job, check this out. an out-of-control car crashes through the window of a building in pennsylvania. it may seem like your typical vehicle gone astray but it's not. the guy inside this car is taking his driving test and an employee for the department of

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area. >> he even has a cool nickname. >> yes, k-strap, thank you for coming on. >> good morning, thanks for coming on. >> but these television anchors are about to find out the only yo-yo is in this group is k-strap, himself. >> you all right? >> i'm here with lisa mallick, the host of "sunday morning" in green bay, wisconsin. yo-yo champion kenny strasser or k. strass is booked on the show in april 2010. >> well, i have been all around doing my yo-yo tricks. >> there's only one problem. the champ arrives with his yo-yo but says he can't use it. >> we had a little miscommunication. we're not going to get a lesson but that's all right. >> i would have brought, had i known -- >> that's okay. >> i thought it was a sit-down interview. i had this greased yesterday so it takes about 48 for it to set. >> without any yo-yos for tricks, the interview goes from strange -- >> you also do some juggling and

other things for your act, right? >> i don't know why he puts that in there because i don't -- i don't juggle. >> to downright bizarre. >> i do on all of my fingers. i shoot out with the left hand first. i'm not yo-yoing but i'm whirling and it gets going and makes a loud whirring or buzzing sound. >> too bad the good folks at kqtv outside of kansas city, missouri, missed that show, because in a month, they, too, will endure the kenny strasser experience. >> thanks for coming on. >> may, 2010. kyle martin and arion jenkins are the anchors and producers of "hometown this morning." >> we kind of have a lot of freedom doing the morning show. it was a lot of fun. >> we are limited to so many resources. >> so when a yo-yo champion passes through the area, pitches himself to the show, they jump on it. >> i do remember e-mails that

were going back and forth through kyle and i with the company zip -- zim-zam productions. we thought it was a legitimate company. >> but when k. strass shows up on the set, the red flags start flying. >> he comes walking down the stairs getting ready to go on and i saw him and i was like his outfit. >> i'll never forget that yellow hat. those green shorts. the suspenders. >> not only is the outfit outlandish, but so is k. strass. >> so we went on the air and i thought he was for real. >> in the whole 2 1/2 years that i did the morning show, we never had a guest that wasn't legit. >> yeah. you know, i go around, i have been teaching kids about the environment. actually, i have only been in one school so far and i'll be honest, it didn't go so hot. in fact, it was literally a major disaster. >> he started kind of going off on another tangent about how the kids weren't cooperating at a school he was at. >> then he started about spankings and beatings.

>> i come from a home that believed in spanking, okay? so when i was being bad, you know, daddy would get a switch or a belt and i would get it and i would get it good. >> but we wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt so that's why we let him go on and proceed with his interview. >> k. strass has another surprise in store. he announces his so-called sponsor, zim-zam productions, has fired him. >> i kind of have breaking news. this may literally be the last time you see me in this shirt. they are going in a different direction and it's a direction without me, and am i angry about this? yes, i am. >> yeah, that was another thing but what do you do when you're in a live segment? say i'm sorry, we're going to go to commercial break now? >> it's time for k. strass to show off champion yo-yo tricks but as you'll see, he's somewhat lacking in the skills department. >> then he said he had a trick

named after the station. >> well, go ahead and show the kqk yo-yo move. >> you have the up and down. >> pretty basic. >> then -- oh. >> you all right? >> yeah. >> then he hits himself in the face with the yo-yo. i wanted to fall out laughing literally on the set. >> i was speechless. the first time as a reporter or anchor i didn't have something to ask or say. >> k. strass tries the trick again and this time, the anchors get out of the way. >> my first one was -- >> the up and down is a basic move. that's pretty basic. don't hurt yourself. >> at that moment, i was like all right, we have to wrap this interview up because obviously, this guy isn't who he says he was. >> all right. well, we're going to take a quick break. >> literally, everybody in the studio was just looking at each other like what just happened? that was the end of k. strass

until everything started popping up on youtube. >> k. strass' shenanigans take on a whole new life on the internet. >> i was getting e-mails from people in australia and overseas saying they had seen it. >> then when we found out he had been doing this to other stations in the midwest, that's when we were like it was the gotcha moment. >> it's just yo-yo. >> okay. >> the big question is why did he do it? and the answer, no one knows. we contacted zim-zam productions but got no reply. seems k. strass has disappeared, sort of. >> maybe he wanted to get noticed. maybe we were just the ladder of getting him there and obviously it worked. >> that brings us to the nbc hit comedy series "the office." in october 2010, actor rayne wilson's character hires an assistant named nate.

hmm. >> hang on, amigo. look familiar? >> i would definitely say that's the same guy. >> the man playing nate on "the office" is an actor. he never admitted to being kenny strasser but several internet reports claim he's one and the same. maybe one day we'll learn the truth about k. strass. until then, tv stations, be warned. coming up -- >> i'm just thinking how long's this going to go on? >> a police officer has a close encounter with an out-of-control chimp. and later, firefighters rush to save one of their own. hungry for the best? it's eb. want to give your family the very best in taste, freshness, and nutrition? it's eb. want to give them more vitamins, omega 3s, and less saturated fat? it's eb. eggland's best eggs. eb's. the only eggs that make better taste and better nutrition...

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i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. the white house is taking a new threat by north korea against the southern neighbor seriously. today the communist north warned the democratic south that their shared peninsula had entered a

state of war. the obama administration says this fits the pattern of aggressive rhetoric from north korea. a 4.7 magnitude earthquake has struck off of the california coast of ferndale, but it appears to be a minor event. back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. so far we have seen different kinds of occupational hazards, but certainly, one of the most dak rou dangerous jobs is that of a police officer. cops never know what to expect when they arrive on a scene and you're about to see two officers who learned that the hard way. a wild animal's on the loose, terrorizing a neighborhood. >> he opens it up and starts doing this. >> and becoming an occupational hazard for one unfortunate cop. >> i'm just thinking how long's this going to go on? >> october 2010. suko the chimp or sue, as she's called, escapes from her owner and is making all kinds of

trouble around a kansas city neighborhood. >> he opens up the door and he's like staring, and he is like a smart monkey, and he starts pointing and smiling and laughing, ha-ha. >> the chimpanzee comes out of nowhere and i'm just thinking get to the house. >> sergeant john bloomquist is on routine patrol when he gets the strange call. >> when i rounded the corner, there were a couple of work trucks out there. i think they were stunned. they were watching this chimp going around. >> neighbors record the action as the 300 pound chimp has a field day. >> came up, jumped up on top of my explorer, looked through the window, got on top, started punching the sunroof. >> bloomquist must now figure out his next move. >> the last thing i want to do is shoot the chimp. i know they can be dangerous animals. they have five times the strength of a human. >> that point was proven in february 2009, when a chimpanzee got loose from a connecticut home and attacked the owner's friend, horribly disfiguring

her. >> he's killing my friend! >> who's killing your friend? >> my chimp. my chimpanzee! >> well, i'm not an expert but to me, it did not appear that he was being aggressive. >> still, bloomquist knows he has to get sue under control. >> our job is to, you know, protect people, protect property. >> little does he know, the chimpanzee is nowhere near ready to call it a day. >> and i yelled for the animal control guy to get into my passenger side of the car, and i said we'll zip down the street here and we'll -- you try and get a shot at the chimp. and we'll go from there. >> they hope to tranquilize the chimp but sue spots the police car and decides to kick play time into high gear. the dash cam inside bloomquist's car records her as she pushes a trash bin down the street. but what happens next surprises even bloomquist.

>> so about that time is when the chimp saw us and then proceeded to jump up on the hood, started banging on the roof of the car, and i had somebody ask me, you know, what was the animal control guy doing. i said are you kidding me? do you really think i'm watching the animal control guy's face while this chimp's going ape on my car? >> sue then proves to everyone she's not monkeying around. >> then the next thing i know, he jumps off, jumps back on to the hood and he karate kicks the windshield twice, and it breaks. >> after breaking the windshield, sue decides she's had enough fun and wanders off. >> we exited the police car. we had other officers that were arriving at that time and we then began to follow the chimp. >> sue heads for the trees. animal control fires a tranquilizer at her. but misses. soon after, the chimp spots her owner's van.

>> i opened the doors of the van or the chimp went inside the van. >> that's where runaround sue's adventure ends, for now. >> it all ended well. very well. except for the car. >> the chimp's tirade on the squad car cost the kansas city police department about $2,000 and it cost sergeant bloomquist a little policeman pride. >> what i'm dealing with now are names like monkey boy, gorilla boy, johnny b., king of the jungle, which honestly, i kind of like that one, or bubbles bloomquist. >> sue gets a new home after her owner is cited for keeping a wild animal within city limits. >> sue has been transferred to the kansas city zoo. >> the kansas city zoo has one of the largest primate habitats in north america. sue will eventually join the chimpanzee troop. looking back, sergeant bloomquist says the incident is a little funny but it could have had an entirely different outcome. >> if his fist or his leg would

have come through there, i think at that point something a little more serious might have happened. >> for police, dealing with a chimp is an unusual occurrence. but dealing with speeding cars, that's an everyday hazard. this state trooper is about to meet his hazard head-on. it's june, 2005, and tennessee state trooper rodney redman is working a crash investigation. he's about to become part of another one. >> i heard a tire squealing on a suv and saw a gray suv coming toward me, and i tried to get out of its way. >> but redman can't respond quickly enough. >> i got about one step and the vehicle struck me and flipped me in the air. >> he hits the highway hard and knows he's in trouble. >> i said if i don't get up, get

out of here, i'm going to get run over again. and i stood up and stumbled back over to the guardrail. from the time i heard the tires squeal to the time i got to the guardrail was 11 seconds. it seemed like an eternity. >> it's nothing short of a miracle that redman sustains only minor injuries. >> i felt no pain through all of it until i got to the side of the road and i thought i had broken my ankle. >> his ankle is fine but when he collides with the concrete, redman gets a massive cut on his forehead. as for the suv that struck him -- >> three young people that were in the car, they were from pennsylvania and the vehicle was found 21 hits lsd and 20 bags of mushrooms. no one admitted to it. they were all charged with it. they were arrested and transported to the louden county jail. >> it's not until the next day that redman realizes there's video of his terrifying

accident. >> there was another trooper that was close by that i called for assistance to help with traffic control. it's his video that caught it on tape. i was shocked by what i saw. it wasn't me. it was somebody else. it was like a stunt man in a movie. i don't know that i will ever accept and truly believe that that was me. >> redman's laughing now but he's constantly reminded of that day in june 2005. >> i hurt still every day. the doctors can't find anything wrong with my hips or why my hips would hurt but my hips still hurt every day. >> redman also says the fear still lives with him that something like this could happen again. >> even today, i still have fear of getting back out on to the highway or being struck again. but it's part of the job. i have to. >> coming up, a firefighter's

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a new jersey home is a blazing inferno and a firefighter dangles from the window while his colleagues scramble to save him. >> i just wanted to save myself. i wanted to do everything possible to hold on but i couldn't physically do it. >> go this way. go this way. go this way. >> january 2010. a two-story home in the town of

randolph, new jersey is on fire and it's a life or death call. >> when they called us, they told us it was a house fire with people possibly trapped in the structure. >> alan bell, jr. is an 11-year veteran of the dover volunteer fire department. his colleague, louis morales with the randolph fire department is also on the scene. >> we saw a lot of smoke coming from the first floor and lot of smoke coming from the second floor, in the front of the house. >> morales learns a woman is trapped on the second floor. he and his team quickly assess the situation. >> when i arrived, i just saw the randolph fire department on scene establishing water supply and trying to get into the building to be able to make a rescue of the victim that was reportedly trapped. >> shortly after arriving, alan bell pulls out a brand new gadget, a helmet camera, giving a rare glimpse of what firefighting is like up close. >> i got it for christmas of 2009 so probably about six weeks

before this fire. that was the first time i actually used the camera. >> because of a change in regulations, it's the first and only time bell will use his camera on scene. he turns it on and goes about his job for the day. >> we are initially what they called a rapid intervention team to extract firefighters if they get lost or injured. >> morales is part of another team, one that will enter the burning home. >> we started to go into the front of the house. we noticed that there was -- all the entrances were blocked in. >> the firefighters then moved to the back of the house, hoping they have better access to the trapped woman. >> i was just thinking of getting this lady out. the first priority was to get this person out and get her to safety. >> she was in this window right here. if we can get this up to the roof.

>> morales makes his way inside. >> a lot of smoke, very black, dark smoke. we could see some flames seeping through the first floor going into the second floor. the room got bright real quick and started getting really, really hot. i've been in prior fires and i have never experienced the type of heat i experienced that day. >> meanwhile, outside at the back of the house, alan bell is assisting other firefighters. >> we were making entry and climbing up on the roof, and there was a ladder extended there. >> but suddenly, louis morales signals he's in trouble. >> police officer went by and i yelled at him that i was burning up, that they needed to get a ladder to me. >> couple other guys went up to the top of the ladder and i stayed down there.

when the police officers and a couple other people started screaming for a ladder. >> we need a ladder now! >> i grabbed the ladder and me and another guy, we ran around the side. >> what bell then captures on his helmet cam is unreal. he reaches the side of the house and sees morales hanging out of the window. >> i do remember seeing lots of people coming towards me, police officers, firefighters. we don't always run into this. we train for it but you don't expect it to happen. >> i recognized at that point when i was coming out of the window that it was firefighter alan bell that was on the scene, i felt really glad that he was there. >> bell and the others raced to get a ladder up to morales, and they don't have a moment to spare. >> i got to be honest with you, once i started to come out the window, i was really exhausted. >> being that he was outside, able to breathe, i knew it was better than being inside and stuck in there. >> the plan is for morales to bail out of the window

head-first, and work his way down the ladder. >> got to try and get him down safe so he doesn't get hurt. >> due to the amount of heat, my legs gave out from under me and i rolled down the ladder. >> he just fell. we just tried to do what we could to break his fall so that he wouldn't fall on his neck. >> i remember hitting my head really hard, and that's when i went unconscious and i don't remember anything from there. >> mayday. firefighter down. >> fellow firefighters drag morales to safety. fortunately, his injuries are considered minor. >> i was knocked unconscious, had a head concussion. >> morales is lucky. sadly, the fire claims the life of the woman trapped inside. >> she tried to come out of the room and she obviously couldn't make it because the fire and smoke caught up to her. >> it's not until alan bell is able to catch his breath that he remembers he's wearing a camera

on his helmet. >> once you settle down and all your adrenaline's over, then is when i realized i think i was filming all this. >> the first time i watched it, it was scary, you know, because you see yourself going through this. this is not a good experience. >> come on down, head first. >> both firefighters hope others can learn from the video captured by alan bell's helmet camera. >> my primary goal of the video was to use for training. and that we all should train for the highest level possible. you can see what happens. it's all on camera. >> mayday. firefighter down. >> coming up, h2 -- whoa! >> all of a sudden i feel the blast of water hit me and that was it. >> i think the sprinklers came on. more than two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. and every day since,

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when you're a television reporter, going live, you learn to prepare for anything. >> brandon lewis joins us live. >> occupational hazards can be lurking anywhere. >> most tested fuel additive in the history of the epa. >> even underneath your feet. brandon lewis is a reporter at wndu in south bend, indiana. but in his very first tv job at komu in missouri, not only is he wet behind the ears but just about everywhere else, too. it's june 2009. brandon is live reporting on ethanol in gasoline. >> my photographer was late that day so they told me to take the truck out to the location and set up the live shot so we decided to go to the gas station for the morning show, and just use that as a backdrop for our

story. the truck was in the parking lot and i was standing in a field between the gas station and bank. >> before going live, brandon and his photographer look around for obstacles. >> we always check for live wires, any sort of dangerous items and also things like sprinklers. >> but it's nearly 5:00 a.m. and pitch black outside. >> i couldn't see them because they were in-ground sprinklers that shoot out from the ground. they tossed to me like usual and i started saying the news, this is the news about ethanol. >> look over brandon's shoulder. the sprinklers turn on just seconds into his live shot. >> eventually i hear this sound, i couldn't tell what it was. will not harm emissions or harm engines. i really didn't think anything of it until i started hearing this tick, tick, tick, tick just start coming closer and closer and closer to me. i started hearing water. i assume it's the sprinklers but i couldn't tell where it was coming from. >> brandon's about to find out. live on television. >> all of a sudden, i just feel the blast of water hit me. that was it. >> in the history of the epa,

car concerns aside, researchers -- >> like a trouper, brandon doesn't let a little water get in the way of his story. >> i'm like i got to keep doing what i'm doing. i don't have a choice. i have to keep telling the news, regardless. maybe it will just hit me once and that's it and i can get out of this. at this point, i know i can't toss back to the studio because while i'm doing my part, the anchors are shifting to different parts of the set, the crew isn't ready. it's just me on air and i just took that step back just to try and get out of the stream of water, and then it came around a second time. >> while brandon's trying to keep his composure, his cameraman is scrambling. >> that's why the camera goes up and down, he's taking the camera back to try and protect the equipment. i'm sitting there trying to maintain composure and read the news and find out what's going on. >> when brandon finally tosses back to the studio, all bets are off. >> brandon, you are a dedicated reporter. >> of course, brandon's station

puts his morning shower online. >> our new media director comes in, sees the live shot and instantly it's online. >> i think the sprinklers came on. >> brandon's video goes viral. >> i could not believe the response that it got from people. i was in chicago the weekend after it happened and i'm in the line to get my ticket for the train and a woman comes up to me and says aren't you that guy from the sprinkler video? >> i'm a little wet but it's okay. >> it just goes to show you that no matter the job, there's bound to be a hazard hidden or otherwise. >> oh, i'm sorry, did i hit you? >> so if your job has you beaten up -- >> get out of there! >> -- knocked down -- dealing with irrational types or complete yo-yos, has you hitting a wall or has you run down, then you only have to look to the

spanish for a little relief. believe it or not, this is spain's first national siesta championship. the country was once famous for shutting down in the afternoon so people could get a little shut-eye. now people spend the time shopping or working, not sleeping, so the competition hopes to bring back one of spain's oldest traditions by finding the country's best napper. the siesta is limited to 20 minutes but points are awarded for duration of sleep, unusual positions and even eye-catching pjs. after all, the only hazard here is not wanting to wake up. as the hard-working folks in this hour have shown us, even an everyday task or situation can turn into one tough day on the job. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera."