Good News In A Bad Situation

The stories are beginning to come out about the heroism displayed during the terror attacks in Mumbai.  Time has an article about a South African security consultant sized up the situation, reacted quickly, and saved 150 lives.  Bob Nicholls, who runs the South Africa-based security agency Nicholls, Steyn and Associates, was having dinner with five of his team on the top floor of the Taj when they were told by other South African diners that friends intending to join them for dinner hadn't turned up because gunfire had broken out inside the hotel.   He decided that one of the conference rooms would be the safest place, so he organized the people around him, they barricaded themselves into a conference room and waited.  They stayed put until a loud blast nearby and visible smoke and fire.  At that point they escaped by way of the fire escape.  Thanks to Bob Nicholls, these people are still alive.