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"For a Firefighter it is normal. You are used to it. Like I said, I never
thought I was in danger. I never thought the building would come down on us, not
those buildings; a frame building maybe. But it is very seldom that an occupied
building goes down. Unless it was burning for at least 5 hours, then it might
come down. But this was a very hot fire with the jet fuel and all."
"What also happened was that there
was so much debris in the street that you would be standing there and the next
thing you knew, you would be standing in a fire on the paper that ignited on the
street. Then 124 Truck, I remember, they had to get hand lines because all the
paper from the office was on fire around the truck. Then they shut those lines
and everybody had to pull back. That was around noon."
This is a little bit of the story of what happened to the Chief and his
Assistant on September 11, 2001. The full story will appear in our book.
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