It would be dawn in less than an hour. For a week straight,Danniel Moreno,Brian Stanley,and23 other college students form Massachusetts had realed on white-sand beaches and club-hopped around Acapulco,Mexico.On their last night,Moreno and Stanley partied until 2 am.But as Stanley's head hit the pillow,he heard glass shattering.From the balcony of their fourth-foll room,Moreno and Stanley saw black smoke pouring form the hotel's tower.Almost all the hotel's rooms had college students form the United States!
Moreno,21,ran out into the corridor and began pounding on doors and shouting,"Fire"!As the smoke thickeded,Moreno raced upstairs to the rooms where other students were staying. Stanley,a colunteer firefighter in his hometown,was helping pepole get through the somke-filled lobby.There he joined forces with Nalewanski,who comes form a familt of four generations of firefighters."Let's go",Nalewanski said. He and Stanley wet their shirts in the bathroom and wrapped them around their mouth and nose so that they could breathe.Then they rushed yp the stairs.
In the meantime,Moreno had reached the righth floor before turning back.He amde sure th hit every door.
Nalewanski and Stanley found Moreno on the fourth floor,struggling to breathe.After making sure he could get back down on his won,they continued upstairs,down the corridors on every floor,banging their fists on every door.
In the end,while a few students were treated for smoke inhalation,no one was seriously hurt.Even more incredible,all the students went back to Massachusretts later that same day.