Darren Lindemann, 40, a firefighter stationed in Far Rockaway, Queens, says he docks at the bar about 10 times a season.
A firefighter stationed a few blocks away, Dennis Smith, wrote a classic account of the time in a best-selling book, "Report from Engine Co. 82".
Firefighters stationed a few blocks away arrived in three minutes, but by then the whole apartment -- living room, kitchen and two bedrooms -- was an inferno.
Left behind by the Coast Guard a decade ago, it sat on Governors Island in New York Harbor, unwanted by the firefighters stationed there and unavailable to others who coveted it from afar.
Inserted in the wall are casts of the hands of a man and a child -- father and daughter -- from the neighborhood, who were actually saved by firefighters stationed here.
About 80 Nassau County fire crews filled in at firehouses in Queens and Brooklyn with their own trucks and equipment, because city firefighters stationed at those firehouses refused to leave Ground Zero in hopes of helping to dig out their comrades.
While most firefighters stationed themselves on higher ground, WPA and CCC supervisors kept sending their men into the ravine.
He won the loyalty of the 5th Battalion firefighters stationed across the street from Wrigley Field last year by mentioning the impending retirement of their commander, Lt. Bill Connors.
The city is suing the county's Consolidated Fire Protection District over the district's decision to reduce the number of firefighters stationed here by 50% in the past 12 months.
Scott Promen, 61, who worked as a Rockwell firefighter through the 1980s, said the Santa Susana fire crew received extensive training, and that occasionally they would staff a nearby Ventura County fire station when firefighters stationed there responded to fires in the area.
