So much courage
MAYDAY!
MAYDAY!
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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Deutsche Bank Fire - One Year Later
