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25 Years of Stories: A Look Back at 2001

The Moth

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We Just Lost 200 Guys. And I Don't Know What to Do.

"I'm a fireman, and they need me. And he can't give up now," says the father of two. "Being on Bell Parkway by myself in the middle of the day ... it was the strangest thing I ever saw" The New York City Fire Department's brush unit is like the lowest of the low in the department; if you're fighting fires there are no firefighters to fight them.

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