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By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC September. 11, 2010 Editor’s Note: We at the Chronicle, will never forget those firefighters, who have given their lives in 9/11. Each week we will honor one with their stories. We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com This week we feature: Battalion Chief William McGovern was last seen alive [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC November 12, 2009 Someone To Brag About Joseph Marchbanks Jr. was a Battalion Chief in a Harlem firehouse, but he preferred to be called a firefighter. A 22-year veteran, Chief Marchbanks garnered four promotions by the time he died at age 47, but “he wasn’t one to brag,” said his wife, [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC November 3, 2009 Granddaddy’s Trains. Last year at Christmastime, Deputy Chief Charles L. Kasper of the Fire Department’s Special Operations Command went out and bought a set of trains. They were not for his 425-person division, which races to the scene whenever there is a major catastrophe and already owns a [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC October 28, 2009 Firefighting With Research Around the firehouse, they called him Joe Knows. The chief of Battalion 48 in Brooklyn, Joseph Grzelak had been fighting fires for 28 years and memorizing trivia for even longer. During slow shifts he could be found at his computer, researching everything from home [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC October 19, 2009 ‘His Talent Was His Mind’ Several years ago, Battalion Chief Edward F. Geraghty was put in charge of the Fire Department’s training school on Randall’s Island. On his first day, he gave the new recruits a pep talk, telling them what he expected. After he was done, he [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC October 13, 2009 Editor’s Note: Our Firefighter of the week was Battalion Chief Haz-Mat Operations John J Fanning II. We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com Naming the Future for Him A few months after the terrorist attack, Maureen Fanning realized that her 14-year-old son, Sean, was still staring [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC October 8, 2009 Her Cheerleader For 29 years, Dennis and Kathleen Devlin were man and wife, parents to four children. In a house on a small hill in upstate New York, they watched sunsets and laid plans to grow old together. But Dennis Devlin, a battalion chief for the New York [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC Sept. 23, 2009 In the Thick of Things Five years ago, when Thomas P. DeAngelis was promoted to battalion chief in the New York City Fire Department, his wife, Patty, told him: “You’ve been running into burning buildings for 22 years. But you’re a battalion chief now, so you won’t have [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC Oct. 1, 2009 Running for a Memory The race seemed more important than ever. For 18 years, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Dennis Cross competed in the Turkey Trot, a 5- kilometer race held in Flushing Meadows, Queens, where firefighters ran for charity. Now he would be absent. His wife, JoAnn, [...]
By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC Sept. 15, 2009 Firefighter to the Core Raymond M. Downey was the battalion chief in charge of special operations in the New York City Fire Department. Here’s his son, Chuck, a fire lieutenant: “Dad joined the Fire Department on April 7, 1962. Coming on in the 60′s, they went to a [...]
