Topic: Smoke Inhalation

Thibodeau describes his attempt to find children, including Serenity and Isaiah, as the fire began. He navigated through David Koresh's bedroom and an office space to reach the second-story hallway. Upon opening a makeshift door, he was met with a wall of black smoke and a massive "wall of flame" that prevented him from reaching the children.

Clive Doyle provides a harrowing account of the fire's onset, describing how he and David Thibodeau stood in the chapel as smoke filled the room. He recounts the decision to move away from the front of the building and the subsequent struggle to breathe as the heat became unbearable. Doyle mentions spending three weeks in a burn ward in Dallas after escaping the inferno.

As fire spread through Mount Carmel around noon on April 19, Clive Doyle and others in the chapel attempted to find an exit. Amidst pitch-black smoke and intense heat, Doyle heard the screams of those burning behind him before performing a head-first dive through a hole created by a tank. He slithered out onto the ground, initially believing he was the only survivor of the inferno before learning three others had escaped through the same opening.