Daniel wanted to close his eyes, to not look upon the slaughter that was taking place. As Anthony called to him, he nodded, horrified that they indeed had to do what needed to be done. "I'll get anyone who's not bit and get them to safety, you light the building! Come to the back door of the main building and we'll let you in and we can wait for the building to fall. Daniel ran to the apartments next to the compromised building, and he searched for options. He saw that a metal ladder hung off the side of the fire escape on the side of the building. The infected building didn't have a fire escape, and Daniel chided himself for giving them the worst possible building to hide themselves in. He shook his head and ran to the stairs of the fire escape and bounded up them. At the third flight of stairs, he stopped and took hold of the tall ladder.
The window adjacent to the fire escape was easily reachable with the ladder's length. It might be risky, but so was leaving Shannon and James in there... Daniel seized the later and lay it against the rail of the metal rigging. He let the other end fall, shattering the window with a loud crash. Carefully, Daniel stepped across the rungs, using his unfortunately poor balance to hold himself aloft. He jumped into the building, hearing the screams of dying people. He found a startled Shannon staring him in the face and Doctor Johnson looking terrified too. "David, help me move this buffet!" He barked, snapping the man from his daze. "Anthony is going to burn the building down and we have to get to my office!" The two hurried to the large piece of furniture, and David backed up towards the stairs. The buffet fell with a loud thud. Fortunately it fell in a perfect position to block the stairs for a minute or two, but unfortunately it fell against David, who lost his foothold and tumbled down with the furniture piece. Before Daniel could help, a walker appeared beside the older man and began to devour him. Knowing it was a lost cause, Daniel turned to his friends. He looked at Shannon with a nostalgic look of fear in his eyes, remembering the dangers they'd tackled that first week he'd been in New Orleans.
"Out the window, to fire escape. Valentina you go first, James second, then Shanelle and Ryder! Hurry!" He barked. He could hear the walker banging on the buffet counter. As everyone proceeded out to the escape, Daniel helped shannon get out. "Careful!" He commanded, especially concerned for her in particular. He then turned to Lauren in her chair. "This won't be fun, I promise you, but we can do this." He put his arm around the woman and supported her wait, helping her to the window. He went first and stepped precariously onto the rungs of the ladder. Thankfully they were decent in width enough for him to step on. Lauren painfully climbed out onto the ladder, and Daniel picked her up. This was uncannily risk, but she couldn't walk alone, and they were to big to walk at the same time. When they had all crossed the ladder to the fire escape, the party began to move down the escape and to the ground. Walkers banged on the windows, but Daniel ushered them to the back of the head building. Daniel pounded on the metal doors and a few moments passed before Emma and Riley appeared at the door, allowing them into safety.
They all huddled up into Daniel's office and waited for Anthony to work his magic...