I don’t have many pictures of my father but I recently ran across this one posted on the website of his fire company “Rescue 3“. Following Vietnam and the Physician Assistant program at Cornell he joined the Fire Department of New York and was soon accepted into the department’s elite company Rescue 3.
These were the “War Years” and the bronx was burning. He didn’t talk much about the fires so when he did I hung on every word. One day he was discussing the severity of the situation in the bronx with an out of state firefighter and said “How many massive, fully engulfed fires with multiple casualties have you seen in your career? There are days we see 5 or 6 in one night!”.
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