Let us always remember those lost. Rest in God's Loving embrace. Let us also remember, those who were saved by the Incident Commander, when he made the very difficult decision to remove all the firefighters from the building, regroup, reassess the tactics, and restart the fire attack and rescue/search operation. If that action was not taken more firefighters would have been lost. God Bless this Great Chief.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.