ADAM GOLDSTEIN - FIRE SAFETY TIPS KEPT DJ AM ALIVE

FIRE SAFETY TIPS KEPT DJ AM ALIVE

ADAM 'DJ AM' GOLDSTEIN has revealed basic fire safety tips kept him from burning to death as he ran from the flames in his plane crash last month (Sep08).
The DJ and pal Travis Barker were the only survivors of the fireball, which cost two friends and two airplane staff their lives, and, in his first interview since the tragedy, he admits, "I'm the luckiest man alive."
Goldstein tells People magazine, "(There was) fire everywhere. I tried to cover my face as I jumped through a fireball. As soon as I hit the ground, I remembered, 'Stop, drop and roll.' So I started rolling."
Goldstein, 35, reveals he has undergone three surgeries and procedures to treat his second and third-degree burns, adding, "I can't believe I made it. I'm just grateful."
The DJ admits he was asleep when the plane crashed after it failed to clear a runway at a South Caroline airport.
He recalls, "When the plane was on the runway I took my shoes off and fell asleep. The next thing I remember is us crashing into something. I woke up to Travis screaming and the plane engulfed in flames. I remember thinking it was like Miami Vice, where a car is on fire and you run before the gas tank explodes.
"Travis jerked upon the door and slid on his butt down a wing that was on fire."
And, speaking of his injuries, Goldstein tells People, "My eyebrows and layers of skin were burned off my face. My forehead was gouged and my arm had skin hanging off. I was in shock and didn't feel anything.
"(But) in the ambulance I was in so much pain. It sounds weird, but they turn the heat on full blast so your body doesn't go into hypothermia. On burns that's excruciating."
He first saw the extent of his injuries in hospital in Augusta, Georgia when he asked for a mirror: "The bandages were like a ski mask, but I thought, 'I'll be OK'. I didn't think, 'I'll be disfigured for life.'"