Then, after the marines abandoned the vehicle, a crowd set it on fire in a scene reminiscent of the blazing vehicles on Wednesday.
"In my entire career," he recalled in a recent interview, "I'd never seen so many shots fired at a scene".
Browne likened the "blood-stained decks, and the huge masses of flesh and blubber lying here and there, and a ferocity in the looks of the men, heightened by the red, fierce glare of the fires," to a scene out of Dante.
A spokesman for Tayside fire brigade said the initial call came in at about 8.50am and fire crews found a scene of devastation with flames reaching up to 30ft in the air.
Lawyers for McDonald's family, who won a $5 million settlement from the city even before filing a lawsuit, have said none of the other officers at the scene fired a shot, according to city officials.
A third, "Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire" (1843), depicts a scene from the fairy tale.
In a borough of immigrants from more than 100 nations, firefighters say emergency calls can come in languages, dialects and accents that render an address or a description of a fire scene beyond their comprehension.
He continued to explain, "It's not like 'Justin follows this girl to this spot.' No, it's a bunch of amazing scenes: Like a fire scene, we have an ice scene".
Call it maturity or common sense or the experiential equivalent of showing up a day late to a fire scene.
"I don't want to someday read that someone stopped from answering a call or going into a fire scene saying, 'You know what, who's to say my family's going to be taken care of?' " John J. Husser is also appealing the denial of benefits in the case of his father, John R. Husser, 55, who had served for 35 years as a volunteer firefighter in Rockville Centre on Long Island.
