“Battalion! Wake-up! Emergency alert!” Well, we get ready, climb our fire trucks and set off. I'm driving my truck. Driving ahead of me is Pechnyak, chemist-dosimetrist in his APC of radiological reconnaissance. Suddenly he stops. I catch up with him and say: “What's up? How's the radiation? He's mumbling – well, looks like normal” And the readability is lousy, of course...Then we reach Chernobyl – there's lots of people there already.(...) We are told there's a fire in the cable tunnel of the station, we start fighting it, and we slock and slock and slock it. And this guy Grechko from my battalion - he drops into a hatch and breaks his leg...