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Posted on 08/09/2002 6:12:32 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Fire Engine to Serve as WTC Tribute
Fire Engine Crushed in World Trade Center Collapse to Serve As Tribute to Victims
WARWICK, N.Y. Aug. 9 — Billy Green solemnly unfurled a length of hose during a ceremony Friday and handed it to other firefighters to be placed aboard Engine 6, crushed when the World Trade Center towers collapsed.
It was the first time since Sept. 11 that he'd seen the truck, which will go on display at a museum next month. Of the five firefighters on his crew who ran into the north tower, Green was the only one to survive.
"It's hard. I look inside and remember riding over," he said, wearing a T-shirt with the names of those from Engine Co. 6 who died: Lt. Thomas O'Hagan, and firefighters Thomas Holohan, Paul Beyer and William Johnston.
The truck, decontaminated of asbestos, was rescued from a Staten Island landfill by the New York State Museum. The ceremony was held to dedicate the engine, which still bore a faint "6" on the front.
The cab was burned out and the front tires tattered, but the original hose was scrubbed clean. Four firefighters worked quietly, placing the hose precisely like they would if the engine were returning to service.
"It's an honor for us," said Al Sicignano of Brooklyn. "It's something they'd be doing if they were here. This is their last ride. I could just picture them. They were gung-ho."
Holohan's widow, Colleen, holding one of her three children, wiped tears as she recalled the last Christmas party at the firehouse. "All the children were on top of the truck in the hose beds."
In the middle of the party, an alarm went off and the firefighters lifted the children down from the truck, she said.
"You just remember all those things and how much of a family they were," she said.
The truck was decontaminated by inmates trained in asbestos removal at the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility, about 60 miles north of New York. The firefighters later thanked the inmates and shook their hands.
"Oh, man, I got no words to describe it," said inmate George Latorre of working on the truck.
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the keel is busted and it would never be right again!!
a great one is about to start...
it is "The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgen and Theodore Bikel...
one of, if not the best ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) flicks in the planet!!!
ps: I think I can fix that boat in #2, all I need is some duct tape.
Don't worry about fancy footwork...
I am male and consequently not bothered by the inevitability of aging!!
And while I agree that duct tape is a miraculous thing, actually it is gaffers tape - duct tape is metalic, at any rate, it would be a bad idea...
as I said the keel is busted and even if you could airtight the boat, if you ever lost the bubble you would split and let's just say...
I hope you have a good supply of Momsen Lungs!!!
hang in the movie gets very much better!!
I even better speak english!!
Ex-Navy on the USS Nitro AE-23, the finest fast-attack AE in the fleet!!
We broke every record for all time!!
And it does!!
the people at Ground Zero refused to be relieved and demanded to stay!!
I think that was a wonderful, heroic gesture, but it also derails any suit brought by them!!
If you deny relief at a danger spot, you are responsible!!
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