9 11 firefighter biography sample

          On September 11‚ a very special person was taken from us....

          Jay Jonas was a fire captain on 11 September 2001.

          My son Bill was a member of the NYC Fire Department for three years.

        1. My son Bill was a member of the NYC Fire Department for three years.
        2. Firefighter Stephen Gerard Siller was born into a large Catholic family in Queens in He was the son of Mae and George Siller, and the youngest of seven.
        3. On September 11‚ a very special person was taken from us.
        4. Keith Roma personally saved the lives of over people, making no less than four trips up Tower 1 in the process.
        5. He had carried a red handkerchief since he was a boy.

          6. He and his unit were inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center when it collapsed.

          Jay Jonas was trapped under rubble for four hours

          We were one of the earliest fire units to respond to the emergency at the World Trade Center.

          We were in the North Tower when the second plane hit the South Tower.

          We got to the 27th floor when the South Tower collapsed so we started to retreat. Once we got to around the 20th floor, we saw a woman in distress, and stopped to rescue her.

          We were carrying her downstairs and made it to the fourth floor when the North Tower collapsed with us still inside.

          Joseph Nuccio oral history interview conducted by Dr. Benjamin Luft, September 28, Joseph was a retired/disabled nurse/volunteer firefighter/EMT on 9/

          When it came down on top of us, I felt like we were dead men walking.

          I really felt that we would be very lucky if we made it out of there. As it turns out, we did but we were extremely fortunate to have been in that one little spot that remained quasi-intact, a little bubble of safety, where the rest of the building was r