"Houston, We Have A Problem"

St Paul's Cathedral 

INTRO TEXT: Having survived for many days without electricity in brutal circumstances, many survivors thought that it could not get any worse. They were wrong. While Aircrafts may have plummeted to earth immediately after the EMP, thousands of satellites that were orbiting the planet were biding their time before making catastrophic collisions with earth...
A blast of heat knocks me off my fight. My ears are ringing. I don't think I'm hurt; I can feel my legs. Screaming all around me. I look up. I can see a smouldering pile of metal surround by a sizeable creator. Is that a satellite? A man calls out in pain. I roll over to see a man with a woman and a teenager, a piece of smoking metal is protruding out of his leg. His family are paralysed in shock. What should I do to help them?
Remove the object quickly 
Pour water over it