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Overcome by
fumes, the woman passed out and was on the verge of going into
cardiac arrest when Firefighter Mike Wunder of Ladder Co. 36 reached
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Issue 18-09 |
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Denying My Brother's Identity At
The Memorial
“This is my job,”
he told her, “this is who I am.”
By Michael Burke
Downtown Express 6/26/09
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Capt. William F.
Burke, Jr. |
Recently I received my
“names verification packet” from the “National September
11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center”
foundation.
It informed me that I may
ask for my brother, Capt. William F. Burke, Jr., Eng.
Co. 21, FDNY, to be identified in just about any way I
like at the memorial. As long as it isn’t “Capt. William
F. Burke, Jr.”
It’s true that Billy rode
down to the site in the officer’s seat of the rig,
Engine 21. That rig’s half-destroyed shell now sits out
at a hanger at J.F.K. Airport with many other artifacts
of the day. The front compartment where he sat that day,
from which he led his men to the W.T.C., is burnt out
and destroyed. It will be featured in the 9/11 museum.
He wore a blue shirt
embroidered with “Captain William F. Burke, Jr.,” over
the heart. He wore a turn out coat with the name “BURKE”
across the back, under the initials “FDNY.”>>> |
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'The Whole
Building Just Fell':
Building
Collapse In Ft. Greene,
Brooklyn, Injures 4
A
four-story Brooklyn apartment
building collapsed with a
thunderous roar Sunday, injuring
four people and forcing the
evacuation of several nearby
structures, officials said>>> |
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Firefighters Rescue Two from
Brooklyn Fire
Although
they say it’s all in a day’s
work, there is no doubt that
firefighters from Ladder 169 did
something extraordinary on June
23, when they rescued two from a
late night fire in Brighton
Beach, Brooklyn>>> |
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Firefighters Rescue Two from
Bronx Fire
Firefighters from Ladder 41
rescued two civilians on June 20
from an apartment fire on White
Plains Road in the Bronx>>> |
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Cart
Attack At Qns. Links
Golf-Course Vandals Set Massive
Blaze
More than
three dozen golf carts were
torched at a public Queens
course yesterday, sparking a
two-alarm fire that left part of
the clubhouse a charred
wasteland, authorities said>>> |
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Firefighters Rescue Unconscious
Woman From
Burning, Smoke-Filled Manhattan
Apartment
Firefighters kicked in the door
of a smoke-filled upper
Manhattan apartment early
Wednesday and pulled an
unconscious woman to safety,
officials said>>> |
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Hero
Firefighters Armed Only With A
Surfboard
and Rope
Rescue 2 From Jamaica Bay
A group
of hero firemen armed with just
a surfboard and a rope plucked a
shivering couple from the choppy
waters off Jamaica Bay Monday,
the FDNY said>>> |
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Suspicious Bronx Fire Injures
13, Including 4 Firefighters
An
early morning suspicious fire
has injured 13 people, including
four firefighters in the Melrose
section of The Bronx>>> |
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On June
18, firefighters rescued a
worker who had fallen
approximately 20 feet into a
construction site on Church
Street between Barclay and Park
Place in Manhattan>>> |
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Fire
Officers Disciplined in Deutsche
Bank Fire
Fire
Department officials on
Wednesday announced that seven
veteran officers have been
censured for their roles in the
breakdown of the department’s
inspection system in the months
before the fatal fire at the
former Deutsche Bank building in
August 2007>>> |
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Staten
Island Firehouse Receives Grant
Honoring Lt. Robert Ryan
The
firehouse Lt. Robert Ryan called
home - Engine 155 and Ladder 78
on Staten Island - received a
$8,600 grant from Kornreich-NIA
and the Fireman’s Fund Insurance
Company on June 18, to use for
the purchase of training and
physical fitness equipment>>> |
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State Labor Dept.:
FDNY Not At Fault In Trainee's
Death
The
state Labor Department has found
that the Fire Department did not
violate occupational safety and
health codes in its Fire Academy
training when a Probationary
Firefighter collapsed and died
during a simulation exercise>>> |
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Burglars
Steal 9/11 Medal Of Valor Pins
From Carrollwood Home
Two
pins that accompanied a
congressional Medal of Valor
awarded posthumously to a New
York City firefighter who died
when the World Trade Center
towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001,
have been stolen from a
Carrollwood home, Hillsborough
County deputies say>>> |
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FDNY:
Apparatus Fatalities, Technology
and Change
158
Firefighters Killed In 161 Years
Edward
Crowley, a member of Manhattan
Engine 20, was one of a crew
pulling their hand pumper to a
huge fire in Brooklyn. Like a
number of other responding
companies, they would travel by
ferry across the East River. As
the apparatus left quarters and
proceeded down Fulton Street
toward the docks, Crowley
apparently lost his footing and
fell. Unable to move out of the
way, one of the wheels crushed
his skull and he died instantly>>> |
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NIOSH
Report On FDNY Line Of Duty
Death Asks The Impossible
NIOSH
is charged with investigating
line of duty deaths when they
occur. Part of the
responsibility is to offer
recommendations to fire
departments. Normally these are
within reason but in a recent
release on a line of duty death
in New York, one was
unreasonable>>> |
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Obama
Saudi Suit Stance Irks 9/11
Families
Family
members of the victims of the
Sept. 11 attacks say they have
been blindsided by the Obama
administration's opposition to
their lawsuit seeking damages
from top members of the Saudi
Arabian government over
suspected financial links to the
9/11 attackers>>> |
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Senators
Introduce 9/11 Health Act
A bill is
being introduced in the United
States Senate to help all those
living with September
11th-related health problems>>> |
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Firefighter Helps Son Battle
Disease
Peter
Kearney's mother has a saying:
"God fits the back for the
burden."
Kearney, a 45-year-old New York
City fire captain and Orangeburg
resident, has often reflected on
those words during the past few
years>>> |
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Annual Lt. Thomas Kelly (E-219/L-105) Memorial Golf
Outing
Friday, July 24th at
Cherry Creek Golf Course, Riverhead, NY. Tickets:
$160 includes practice range, gift, BBQ lunch,
shotgun start, golf & cart, refreshments on the
course, dinner, open bar, prizes & awards.
Registration begins at 10:30am, lunch/practice range
at 12 noon, shotgun starts at 1:20pm. All proceeds
to benefit marine research on Long Island through
Riverhead fund at Atlantis Marine World. Include
shirt sizes with check>>>
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