DJ AM has opened up what happened in those first few minutes after that awful plane crash last month. He admits that what saved his life were the basic fire safety tips they teach you in elementary school.

“I’m the luckiest man alive. (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. I can’t believe I made it. I’m just grateful.”

He goes on to explain that he was sleeping when the plane crashed and he woke up to flames and the sound of his friend Travis screaming. He then saw Travis jerk open the door and slide down on his backside down a wing of the plane that was already on fire.

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.”

If there is any positive at all to come out of this tragedy, it’s that you bet your ass that DJ AM and Travis Barker are savoring every single minute of every single day of their borrowed time. And hopefully Travis won’t waste any more of his precious life on that trashy ex-wife of his. And is it my imagination or does Adam all of the sudden look 10 years older?

The selflessness that Adam Goldstein showed Monday is humbling. DJ AM manned up and  dragged his burned and battered body out to attend a memorial service for Chris Barker Monday.

He was photographed with his awful burns poking out of the top of his very un-DJ AM like golf shirt as he headed out to pay his respects to his friend.

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Doctors in Georgia say that Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) should recover fully, but it make take up to a year. Travis was burned on his torso and lower body, while DJ AM, was burned on his arms and a portion of his head.

Dr. Fred Mullins of the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors’ Hospital in Augusta said at a press conference that former Blink 182 drummer Barker, 32, and DJ Am (real name: Adam Goldstein), 35, are being treated for second- and third-degree burns.  Mullins says recovery from such burns can take as long as a year but says that the men suffered no other injuries, adding: “Since both Barker and Goldstein are in overall good health and didn’t suffer from any other crash-related complications, a full recovery is expected.”

All families involved in the horrific plane have requested privacy for time to grieve and come to terms with this tragedy. This means if you live in Augusta, Georgia stay the hell away from the Joseph M. Still Burn Center. If you show up there looking for an autograph Shanna Moakler just might kick your ass.

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Bits and pieces of information is streaming in about what happened in the first few seconds after the jet that was flying DJ AM, Travis Barker and four more people crashed late last night.

A local resident was driving down the highway next to the airport when he saw a huge “fireball” go across the road. William Owens said it took a few seconds for him to process that it was actually an airplane.

According to Owens, two men (presumably Travis and DJ AM) were running around and stripping down to extinguish themselves. He said he asked the men if there was anyone else on board the plane and they told him there had been four more with them. “We turned to the jet to try and see if there was anything we could do, but immediately, there was nothing anyone could do,” Owens said.

DJ AM was so badly burned he had to airlifted out, but Travis was stable enough to be driven in an ambulance.

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Travis Barker and DJ AM are in critical condition in the burn unit of a hospital in Georgia after the plane they were flying in Friday crashed in South Carolina. They are the only two people on board that survived the crash.

Officials said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and crashed through antennas and a fence. It came to rest on an embankment across a five-lane highway and was engulfed in flames, said Debbie Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Two other passengers - Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles - died, as did pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, according to the county coroner.

The plane was headed for Van Nuys, California after Travis and DJ AM performed a free concert together under the name TRVSDJ-AM in Columbia, Georgia Friday night. Stayed tuned for more news as it comes in.