Im curious to the heavy heat marks that appear to be left by a fire?

I dont think that was the FD's fault. Not to sound defensive in the FD's stance but it is the building owners job to take care of securing the building after we leave. Was there roof cut in the gym? out of total curiosity. Because we're known to break out some windows and i only see the middle one broken. They took care of the place.

Those "body carriers" are really called stokes baskets, and Motts your right, they are mostly used for helicopter air rescues. What popular around my FD is using it for mountain rescue, many rescue squads and FD's have these because they are cheap and sturdy. Made of chicken wire and piping. They are the best things to use in anytype of rescue

Speaking as a Firefighter, the blackening of the ceiling here shows that either the FD that worked this fire did an awesome vent job, which i doubt because of the lack of verticle ceiling cuts (holes cut to let flame heat and gase's escape) or the fire didnt burn long enough to heat up the room and was probubly extinguish rather fast either by the FD or security

I find it amazing how the government can have something so amazing in architecture and an amazing art piece in itself, and allow it to deteriorate to such a $h!tty condition

It looks like someone has flaked out the line to advance on a fire. Waiting for it to be charged down the hallway