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"When I saw the
rescue boat they looked like angels"
Ata Delorbe, 36, the father of two of the children
Jazmin, 4, and David, 10
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Issue 19-09 |
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FDNY Rescue Team Saves Seven From
Rough Waters After Jetboat Trouble
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Left to Right: Captain Lou Guzzo, Firefighter
Jim Rozas, and Firefighter Glenn Malik
with members of the Delorbe family after the
rescue |
An FDNY rescue team
plucked a family of seven out of a high-performance boat
on the verge of capsizing in the East River on Saturday
night.
A 15-foot Yamaha jetboat with a Bronx family on board
was returning home to City Island after cruising past
the Statue of Liberty and eating at a New Jersey
restaurant when 3- to 4-foot waves pounded the boat,
flooding it with water near E. 34th St>>> |
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Firefighter Lauded For Rescue
With 'No Margin For Error'
“The
rescue that he made was a
difficult rescue,” said Lt.
Dominick Michelli, who helped in
the operations. “He used
ingenuity”>>> |
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FDNY
Rescues Brooklyn Child's Head
From Fence With Jaws
Firefighters receive
state-of-the-art training to
battle raging infernos,
dangerous building collapses and
even terrifying terrorist
attacks. But sometimes it's just
as rewarding to rescue a
2-year-old Brooklyn boy who got
his head wedged in a metal park
fence>>> |
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Swimmer
Critical After Rescue Off Coney
Island
A
passerby flagged down an FDNY
lieutenant, who dived into the
ocean and found the unconscious
victim floating in about 15 feet
of water>>> |
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Firemen
Battle Three-Alarm Blaze In Mott
Haven
A
three-alarm fire ripped through
a Bronx apartment building early
this morning.
Fire
officials say the fire broke out
just after 4 a.m. on East 138th
Street in Mott Haven>>> |
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Three Die
At Queens Sewage Plant From
Toxic Fumes
Three
workers, including a Brooklyn
father and his son, died Monday
after apparently being overcome
by poisonous gas while trying to
unclog an 18-foot-deep cesspool
at a Queens sewage plant,
officials said>>> |
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FDNY Black
Widow Sent Away For Life
Judge
passes sentence on Janet
Redmond-Mercereau, who killed
her fire marshal husband as he
slept>>> |
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40 Members
of Fire Service Promoted
As
hundreds of firefighters, family
and friends filled the
auditorium at the Fire Academy,
10 new captains and 30 new
lieutenants walked across the
stage to accept their promotions
on July 1>>> |
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City
Island Firehouse Stays Open
Despite Plan For Shutdown
Who says
you can't fight City Hall?
Elated City Islanders are
celebrating the reversal of a
plan to shut down the island's
only FDNY ladder company at
night. "For seven long months,
it was City Island versus City
Hall - and City Island won,"
said a jubilant City Councilman
James Vacca>>> |
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Official:
Electrical Failure Caused SI
Ferry Crash
Staten
Island ferry Chief Operating
Officer James DeSimone said on
Thursday that one of the
transformers that helps regulate
power to the main propulsion
engine broke down>>> |
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4 LIers'
Rescue Device For Use At Statue
Of Liberty
A
lifesaving rescue device
invented by a trio of veteran
firefighters from Long Island
has been accepted by officials
at the Statue of Liberty and is
to be available for emergencies
now that Lady Liberty's crown is
open>>> |
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Grace Under Pressure:
Rudy Giuliani's Trial By Fire
“I kept
telling myself to remain focused
on the next decision. The
hardest thing was controlling my
personal reaction. Namely, the
death of people I knew, was
close to, and would have needed
and relied on to get through
this,” he says>>> |
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Gallons
And Gallons Of Concrete Shape
Plaza At Ground Zero
More than
250,000 gallons of concrete were
poured spanning 14 hours for 1
World Trade Center starting on
Tuesday night, giving shape to
the base of a large fountain on
the plaza level and boxes where
trees will be planted>>> |
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Supreme
Court Refuses Case By Sept. 11
Victims' Families
The
Supreme Court on Monday refused
to hear an appeal brought by
families and insurers of victims
of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
in an effort to link the Saudi
royal family to the financing of
Al Qaeda and terrorism>>> |
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Revelations And Overruns Still
Haunt Deutsche Bldg.
Last
month, accounts of more budget
overruns, accusations of fraud
and damning revelations of
incompetence darkened the
ongoing and much troubled story
of the deconstruction of the
former Deutsche Bank tower at
130 Liberty St. Now more than
four years behind the schedule
that officials set for it in
2004, the building, fatally
damaged on 9/11, is set to come
down next January>>> |
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Volunteers
Needed For Sept. 11 Ceremony
Those
who sacrificed their lives to
save others during the events of
Sept. 11, 2001, will not be
forgotten. On Sept. 11, the FDNY
343 Memorial Club will celebrate
the lives of those who died when
airliners piloted by terrorists
crashed into the World Trade
Center in New York, the Pentagon
in Washington, D.C., and into a
field in Pennsylvania on the way
to Washington>>> |
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9/11 Memorial Exhibition - 'A
Space Within' -
Opens At New York's Center For
Architecture
The
exhibition, curated by Thomas
Mellins, contains new details of
the memorial and museum plans.
The exhibition will display
scale models, construction
photographs, drawings and
videos, and host a series of
public programs>>> |
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Ray McCormack,
theHousewatch.com
“Examining the process of firefighting
to see if there is a better and safer
way to operate.”
If at your
next fire someone asks why you’re forcing the
adjacent door,
just tell them
you’re following Doctor’s orders>>> |
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8th Annual Ronnie E. Gies Memorial Golf Outing
Since 2001 the
Ronnie E. Gies Memorial Golf Outing has provided
an opportunity for all golfers to come together
and honor the memory of one of New York’s
Bravest that we lost on 9/11, Ronnie E. Gies. All
proceeds of the days’ event will go to the
Ronnie E. Gies Memorial Scholarship Fund, which
benefits a graduating senior on the baseball
team at Calhoun High School. So Join us for a
day of golf, while keeping the Ronnie E. Gies
Memorial Scholarship program alive.
Date: Aug 11th 2009
Time: 7:30 Shotgun Start |
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