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So much courage

MAYDAY! MAYDAY!

NY Daily News 8/23/2008

The FDNY report on the Deutsche Bank blaze that killed Firefighters Joseph Graffagnino Jr. and Robert Beddia is in the hands of the Manhattan district attorney. World enough and time enough to hold criminally liable all those who sent the two men into a deathtrap.

Be advised we have no water in the lines up here yet. Ok, Cap. There's no water in these lines. ...

Meanwhile, though, New Yorkers might try to envision how the FDNY once more answered the call, under hellish conditions, on Aug. 18, 2007.

It's getting pretty bad up here, Chief. Heavy smoke, heavy fire. ...

Try to envision courage in the face of mortal danger.

I'm in the stairwell. I need help.

Think what it's like to be snared in a sealed maze of flame and smoke.

I'm lost...running out of air.

Think of self-sacrifice and desperate attempts to save others.

I have an unconscious fireman....

Think of the damnable frustration of knowing that firemen are disoriented and dying and that there's no water to save them.

Listen, I want a roll call. Do we have a roll call finished up there? I don't give a s--- about the building. I give a s--- about the guys. Do we have a roll call? Do we know who's missing?

Then think about the fact that New York firefighters, so badly betrayed Aug. 18, 2007, place themselves in harm's way, day in and day out.

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