Lines 152-177 What is each paragraph about? State the main idea in a sentence. Book: Flesh & Blood So Cheap

Lines: Firefighters charged into the building, stretching a hose
up the stairways as they went. At the sixth-floor landing,
they connected it to the standpipe. Reaching the eighth floor,
they crawled into the inferno on their bellies, under the rising
smoke, with their hose. Yet nothing they did could save those
at the windows. Photos of the portable towers show streams
of water playing on the three top floors. (A modern high-
pressure pumper can send water as high as one thousand feet.)
Plenty of water got through the windows, but not those with
people standing in them. A burst of water under high pressure
would have hurled them backward, into the flames.
Hoping to catch jumpers before they hit the ground,
firefighters held up life nets, sturdy ten-foot-square nets made
of rope. It was useless. A person falling from the ninth floor
struck with a force equal to eleven thousand pounds. Some
jumpers bounced off nets, dying when they hit the ground;
others tore the nets, crashing through to the pavement. “The
force was so great it took men off their feet,” said Captain
Howard Ruch of Engine Company 18. “Trying to hold the
nets, the men turned somersaults. The men’s hands were
bleeding, the nets were torn and some caught fire” from
burning clothing. Officers, fearing their men would be struck
by falling bodies, ordered the nets removed. The aerial ladders
failed, too, reaching only to the sixth floor. Desperate jumpers
tried to grab hold of a rung on the way down, missed, and
landed on the sidewalk.