To: Lazamataz
Trees are occasionally pulled down to position fire department vehicles, however that usually occurs later on in an operation. When first arriving units get on the scene they try to work around obstacles as it is faster than trying to cut them down and clear them. If there is a fire and a tree down outside I would suspect that both may be due to an explosion. Trees don't usually fall down at fires. I am a Battalion Chief in the New York City Fire Department.
31 Posted on 10/14/2000 10:30:56 PDT by BCM
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To: KLT
I just came from a memorial service for a good friend who was a Chief on the New York City Fire Department.He also happened to be a freeper. I can't begin to describe how great a guy John was and how much I'll miss him. We talked politics,history and world events all the time. And he loved you guys and told me about the web site. I think he introduced me to it with "Patton's speech to the Third Army",a truly great speech which I just reread here. He also always carried with him Teddy Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena " speech,could someone post that? So long John
72 Posted on 09/28/2001 20:29:06 PDT by freefdny
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On the Saturday or Sunday following 911, my wife and I took the baby for his first walk beyond the house. Across the bay, we could still see the plume of smoke apparently heading toward Northern Queens from the spot where the Towers had stood. A tall, trim, fortyish man with salt-and-pepper hair approached us, on his way home. "I lost my best friend," he told us, muttering that he worked for the Fire Department, clutching momentarily at the work ID hanging from his belt loop, as his face tightened.
"I'm sorry," was all I knew to say, as he turned to go.
They blessed us, and our Republic, with their HONOR ; They kept the faith that day, and showed the world why the forces of justice will prevail over these evil hyenas, these cowardly b*stard jackals we have come to call 'terrorists'.
I did not know one of our FReepers died during the attacks.
Unfortunate but he died a hero doing his job.
>:o(
9-11 Freeper Memorial Bump!
Merry Christmas, John. We haven't forgotten you.
Bump.
God bless you and yours BCM. The fight goes on, both within and without.
Seven years later, and there are some suggesting that we need “to get over it.”
I, for one, will never “get over it.” I will always remember this day.
God Bless you, Chief Moran. And God Bless all your fellow fire fighters and police officers - those men and women that go running in while we go running out.
We miss you.
Another change I noticed is that they have dropped the "firefighter" PC nonsense and started calling them firemen again.
The part I like best is when they start leaving in bunches and go back to being their usual cheerful, jokey selves again. They are beautiful.
I remember his posts — pre 911 obviously
God bless you sir...you will live thru all of us.
I am cross posting this from a 9/11 rememberence thread.....
RIP freeper BCM...aka Battlion Chief Mike Moran NYFD. You and other freepers may know him by his brother who was the man who told Hillary to kiss his royal Irish ass at the memorial event.
I will always remember flying about a month after 9/11, Standing in front of the ticket counter early in the morning at sea tac airport.
As I’m standing at the counter I can feel the floor rumbling and shaking because the luggage trams are running beneath the ticket counter.
It is actually shaking me up-and-down and at that exact moment the public address system begins paging “Mike Moran pick up the courtesy phone.”
I got choked up and almost lost it because it felt like God was sending me a message.
The ticket agent was looking at her computer monitor and asked me if I had a seat preference just seconds aftet this.
My reply was related to the fear we all had that 9/11 could happen again which is why I said “wherever I can be of most use.”
She looked up at me, digested that statement while staring at a broad shouldered fit man, and placed me in the first row behind 1st class, on the aisle.
This was before I became a police officer but still had that Do Your Duty mindset.
Rest In Peace BCM and thank you for your service and sacrifice.
19 years on...RIP forever
I woke today not in my home state of Washington, but in Texas....scouting for land to purchase. I am political refugee in search if a new homeland.
I opened up my phone and went to Freerepublic to post something about BCM as he and I spoke on this website enough that I considered him an “online friend.”
I was very happy to see someone had created a thread to remember him by already.
Here is my BCM story which unfortunately came after he died.
I was to fly with my wife and 2.5 month old son on 9-12....going to Oceanside CA to exhibit the beautiful boy to his maternal grandparents.
That was not to be.
But I had to fly somewhere else a short time after domestic air travel resumed.
I arrived at Seatac Airport before the gate agents even began work and was standing in line as the terminal awoke for the day.
Beneath the ticket agent floor, in the bowels of the airport, is the baggage handling area and small trains that haul you to other terminals run through the same area.
The airport is quiet...no rush of people or children crying.
I feel the 1st train run of the day vibrating the floor I am standing atop as it rolls along on the level below me.
It makes the floor bounce up and down just a little and as I am feeling myself bouncing.....the public address system begins broadcasting. “John Moran, paging John Moran....”
This repeats several times and I had tears begin to escape my eyes.
At this same moment the ticket agent begins to ask me the standard questions and notices my state of sadness.
I give her a very quick explanation and then she asks me “where would you like to sit?”
My response was “wherever I can be of most use.”
She looks up at me from her computer terminal a little confused, then realizes what I mean.
She assigns me a seat in the first row closest to the cockpit on this flight which has no 1st row and I walk off to my gate thinking about BCM.