INTO THE FIRE

Gentle giant Robert Poynter was a real-life hero. The veteran firefighter was retired, but no one had forgotten the lives he had saved, and everyone still instinctively turned to him for help.

Robert, 47, had spent 19 years fighting blazes while based at the University Park firehouse near Dallas, and eventually made Captain.

He’d earned the respect of his colleagues for being able to use his physical strength in life and death situations, but also his gentle side for comforting traumatised children at the scenes of the fires.

Robert had been happily married to his first wife, and had two daughters, but then he met Chacey Morman.

At the time, Chacey was just 20 – she was 12 years his junior. Eventually Robert left his wife for the blonde assistant