The building, a renovated firehouse, housed Lepage's scenery production workshop and film studio in addition to a theatre.
Hundreds of mall workers were evacuated to a nearby library and firehouse, trains were halted and helicopters brought in as police launched a manhunt for the heavily armed killer.
The President's first stop was the Engine 54 firehouse on 8th Avenue and 48th Street, whose officers were among the first on the scene on September 11 , 2001 and which lost 15 of its men when the Twin Towers collapsed.
And in any case, he had said all that was required in a brief, low-key speech at the firehouse.
One set of parents had thanked her for the picture — they'd seen their daughter's face online before arriving at the firehouse — but Hicks had also heard from two residents who said that it was exploitative, a criticism she understood.
Once the surviving students had been counted — they stood in a single file behind their teachers — parents were let into the firehouse and began searching for their children.
A rabbi at the firehouse said that he stood next to one mother and encouraged her, every few seconds, to breathe.
At the firehouse, which is three hundred and fifty yards from the school, Hicks's colleagues moved seven fire trucks from the garage, so that the school's survivors could be counted in the empty bays.
June had "given" James a set of Lego, but James didn't see the point of following a series of steps that someone else had already decided upon so that he could end up with a firehouse that looked exactly like the one in the picture on the box.
I met a man whom I will call Abu Mohammed, a Sunni Arab from Fallujah, near the Shaqlawa firehouse.
At the firehouse, where the displaced from Anbar came to collect aid, the firemen were slouched on sagging couches, complaining about the visitors.
