By Elizabeth De Faria / Sunday, 11 Sep 2016 12:57PM Fifteen years have passed since 9/11 and firefighters are climbing stairs to honor those who fell that day trying to save lives. The attacks on the World Trade Center killed 343 firefighters from the New York City Fire Department, 70 law enforcement officers, […]
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2 People Critically Hurt in Bushwick Crash, FDNY Says
y Gwynne Hogan and Aidan Gardiner | September 12, 2016 10:12am |Updated on September 12, 2016 10:55am Six people were hurt in a crash near Evergreen Avenue and Gates Avenue, officials said. BUSHWICK — Six people were hurt, two of them critically, when an SUV full of kids slammed into the front of one car only to rear-end a double-parked […]
9/11 anniversary: Scars haunt FDNY retiree
New York Fire Department firefighter Robert Reeg of Stony Point was seriously injured while responding to the Sept. 11 attack. (Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News) Certain industrial sounds still trigger Robert Reeg’s memories of World Trade Center jumpers hitting the pavement. Images of mass-murder on the nightly news send Reeg’s mind racing. He invariably recalls […]
Jamesport man, a retired FDNY firefighter, battles 9/11-related cancer
News Jamesport man, a retired FDNY firefighter, battles 9/11-related cancer by Joe Werkmeister | 09/11/2016 9:00 On the night of Sept. 10, 2001, Steve Brickman helped his friend Bill Roberts build a deck at his home. When they finished, Mr. Roberts headed to work as a New York City fireman with Ladder 113 and Mr. […]
How La Verne firefighters raised $160,000 for FDNY after 9/11
La Verne Fire Department members (front row) Jim Portis, Leonard Kilman, Mike Vetti, Mark Horine, (back row) then-La Verne City Councilman Patrick Gatti, Battalion Chief Ed Fenneman, and organizer Dave Bonanno all hold boots from the September 2001 Fill the Boot community campaign to raise funds for families of New York firefighters killed in the […]
Why we must keep telling the FDNY’s 9/11 story
CNN)I never planned on becoming a fireman. As a young New York actor, my brother had persuaded me to take the test so that I had something to fall back on if the acting thing didn’t work out. I could never have imagined how, years later, what would turn out to be my two big […]
St. Marys man and FDNY firefighter connect after 15 years
By Lance Mihm – lmihm@civitasmedia.com Coffey Mann ST. MARYS — Tyler Coffey, of St. Marys, learned in an emotional way this week that kind words carry a lot of weight. Coffey wrote a letter when he was 9 years old to a first responder in New York as the Sept. 11 terror attacks were […]
FDNY bagpipers team up with Scotland’s Red Hot Chilli Pipers for special recording of 9/11 tribute song
They’re piping hot — and hoping to get hotter. Two bagpipe bands who first came together to play for the families of the 343 FDNY members killed on 9/11 have reunited again for a special tribute on the 15th anniversary of the tragic terrorist attacks. Willie Armstrong, a member of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers […]
Restored FDNY Rescue Truck From Sept. 11 Starts San Diego Tour Stop
By Rafael Avitabile FDNY Rescue 5 on display at Toby Wells Family YMCA as part of the Remembrance Rescue Project’s Coast to Coast Remembrance Tour. A rescue truck used in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, made its first appearance in San Diego Thursday morning. FDNY […]
Former FDNY instructor in Summerville sheds tears recalling 9/11 attacks
Jenna-Ley Harrison jharrison@journalscene.com @jlharrison_news Jenna-Ley Harrison/Journal Scene A former FDNY/EMS instructor, Summerville resident Johan Zamoscianyk wears his old department-issued uniform and lanyard with a photo of deceased co-worker Carlos Lillo. He said Lillo died while responding to the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. A decade and a half after terrorists […]
