Introduction

This week James Geering welcomes retired FDNY Deputy Chief and the President of the Lieutenant Joseph P. Bernardo Memorial Foundation Chief Joe D. Bernardo. In this conversation, we discuss a host of topics from Chief's early life, his path into the fire service, numerous fire service stories from the war years,. His son Joseph's journey into FDNY, the tragic events at the 178th fire, also known as the Black Sunday fire, losing his son in 2011. And if you want to learn even more about Thorne, go to episode 323 of Behind the Shield podcast and hear my interview with Wes Barnett and Joel Tataro from Thorne.