The authorities said he was a suspect in four other arsons in and around the firehouse in the last 18 months, the period for which he has been a Bellmore firefighter.
"When the national anthem is played, it's going to strike a nerve in everybody," said Comella, who like several Giants visited Manhattan rescue workers and firehouses twice in the last week.
The cause was still under investigation yesterday as makeshift memorials -- flowers, candles, balloons, stuffed animals and American flags -- grew at the fire scene and at firehouses in the grieving communities.
But from what I've seen over the past four years of filming a documentary and writing a book about a firehouse in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, I think the Staten Island case is an extreme aberration.
Fragility curves are developed for a two-story URM building designed to represent a typical essential facility (i.e., a firehouse) in the central and southern US (CSUS) region.
The Firehouse Restaurant and Bar was converted from Hope Station, the oldest standing firehouse in the city.
Lieutenant Ryan lived near his firehouse, in the West Brighton neighborhood, with many police officers and firefighters as neighbors.
"I'm in the best firehouse in the city.
(Never mind that every firehouse in the city belongs to the people).
The new Morris Heights firehouse in the Bronx, above, dresses the part.
