To look around the Kingwood apartment of Robert Yarbrough is to know a man who found his calling.
"If I could be back at the fire station, I'd be back tomorrow," he said.
Yarbrough worked for the Houston Fire Department for 32 years, and he was there that fateful day in 2013 at the Southwest Inn on Rescue Truck 42.
"There was never a better fire department than what Houston was that day," he said.
His department lost four brave men and women that day and another last week, Captain "Iron Bill" Dowling, whom the city will pay its final respects to on Wednesday.
Yarbrough is one of the men who helped get Dowling out.