The department's official procedure with four-member engines is to send a second four-member engine company to assist with stretching the hose into a building.
But, Mr. Brierley, a retired truck mechanic from Temecula, who grinds out the high-performance camshafts for many club members' engines, emphasizes that with the long-stroke combustion cycle, torque is produced in greater measure than horsepower.
Member FDNY, Engine 234, Ladder 123, Battalion 38 and Volunteer with Blue Point Fire Dept, Engine 2. Beloved husband of Jennifer; proud father of Jack; loving brother of Carol Brass, Patrick and Donna McNamara.
Mr. Holohan, 36, was a member of Engine Company 6 in Manhattan.
On Sept. 11, Mr. McMahon, a member of Engine Company 20 in Chinatown, went into the World Trade Center.
Then, that evening, as the number of the missing grew into the thousands, word spread that rescue workers had found someone -- a member of Engine 40, Ladder 35.
MALACHY P. CORRIGAN'S father was a fireman for 38 years, a member of Engine 292 in Woodside, Queens, but if he thought it a treacherous job, he never let on to his wife and children.
Mr. Tirado, who lived in the Bronx and was a member of Engine 23 in Manhattan, did not shy away from the attention, but was blas about it, his uncle said.
Lieutenant Regan, 48, was a member of Engine Company 205, Ladder Company 118 in Brooklyn Heights, and when word came of the World Trade Center attack, he and his fellow firefighters sped to the scene.
"You get used to it, but you constantly worry," added Mrs. Fischer, whose son Christopher, now 31, is a member of Engine Company 9 in Chinatown and whose other son, 33-year-old Dennis Fischer Jr., is a firefighter in Harlem.
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