The Heroic Firefighters Short Story

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The heroic Firefighters story is about a man named Timothy Stackpole who had survived the 1998 fire and had died when the twin towers collapsed on him and his partners.Stackpole grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Marine Park, the same area where he would raise five kids.Stackpole was a passionate about his job as a fireman.In the summer of 1998 he heard that a women was trapped inside the Brooklyn row house. He and two other fireman rushed in and saved the women.When they were in the building the floor collapsed without warning.
They were trapped for almost half an hour,the three men were rushed to the hospital.Timothy came out of the hospital alive,he was crippled for 66 days.September 11 was when the twin towers were attacked.Timothy
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