By John M. Malecky
FALLEN HEROES
A Tribute from Fire Engineering
September 11, 2001
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Pennwell Corporation, the parent company of188金宝搏是正规吗, has established the FIRE ENGINEERING COURAGE AND VALOR FOUNDATION in the wake of the Word Trade Center tragedy. The unimaginable impact of this event on us all, especially at Pennwell, who lost 10 advisors, instructors, and friends, prompted the company to establish a memorial (in tribute to our fallen FDNY heroes) that would exist for many years to come.
The corporation has set up this tax-free foundation that will present a monetary award to the firefighter (or his/her family) who has exhibited exemplary courage and valor in a rescue operation during the preceeding year in memory of those who sacrificed their lives on September 11, 2001. The award is named for FDNY Deputy Chief Ray Downey. It will be presented annually at the Fire Department Instructors Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. The first award was presented to Rosalie Downey, Ray’s widow, at the 2002 FDIC.
All profits from this book will go to the foundation as well, with matching contributions from the corporation. The goal is to raise and fund the foundation with $1 million.
这本书开篇由玛格丽特Shak奉献e, the book publisher, and a forward by Bill Manning, the magazine editor. Many of the photos were taken by newspaper and magazine photographers as well as fire service personnel. Others, many of whom are part of the188金宝搏是正规吗family of advisors and instructors, wrote about the impact the event had on them.
The book resembles a school year book or one that might be a fire department history in that it is made up of quality binding, paper, and covers. There is a brief but adequate history of FDNY included and a page describing the origin of the Maltese Cross. Manning presents Fire Engineering’s initial report on the events of September 11.
Next is “The Scene at the Pentagon,” courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense, which explains the impact on that structure and the people in and around it when a plane crashed into the Pentagon. There is brief coverage on Deputy Chief Ray Downey and Lieutenant Andrew A. Fredericks, who both have contributed much to the education of the fire service through188金宝搏是正规吗.
Featured are the photos of the fallen personnel. As I look at these photos, I see some men I knew, I see some with identical names, and in one case I see a father and a son. The father had 40 years on the job and had been laid to rest. It is just mind-boggling how many personalities are now gone and how many families and friends have voids in their lives, let alone other emergency workers and civilians who were killed.
188金宝搏是正规吗author and FDNY Battalion Chief John Norman, who has been assigned to take Ray Downey’s position in Special Operations Command, lends his thoughts of the job and some of the men he knew in a chapter following the roll call of the deceased. Within his comments is an aerial view of “Ground Zero.”
The book concludes with a poem written by a 14-year-old girl whose father is a first assistant chief of a volunteer department north of New York City and the “Firefighter’s Prayer.”
I hope you will find it in your heart to buy this book. Books are starting to come out about the WTC and the tragedy, but this book remembers our brothers and pays tribute to them.
John M. Malecky is a 31-year veteran of the Bayonne (NJ) Fire Department and battalion chief with Battalion 2. He joined the department in 1970 and was named a lieutenant in 1987, a captain in 1994, and a battalion chief in 2000. He is author of the Apparatus Deliveries feature inFire Engineering.
