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While a firefighter's ax futilely pounded on the outside, she seized the wide bar of the door and ripped it open, to the sound of wrenching metal.
It was a superhuman effort she didn't realize she was capable of. And it was the last thing she remembered. The s.p.a.ce around her had become a blazing white cloud and she didn't feel the hands of the two firefighters who seized her as she fell through the open air lock.
Chapter 36
_Friday, June 5
8:39 P.M.
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Days later, Alexa Hampton was still considering herself one of the luckiest people alive. When she'd regained consciousness the next week in Lenox Hill Hospital, hooked up to oxygen and being fed by an IV, she noticed that the nurses were looking at her strangely and whispering to each other. Finally she couldn't stand it anymore and asked why.
"It was what you did," a young Puerto Rican woman declared, gazing at her in awe through her rimless gla.s.ses. "No one can believe it."
