Friday, March 4, 2011

DOING YOUR JOB


Just before dawn, with two hours left in his overnight shift, Michael McGuire slipped his cloth hood over his head, strapped on his plastic breathing mask and yellow helmet, and entered the burning high-rise.

A dozen stories above, people trapped in their apartments were leaning out of their windows, crying for help. The elevators in the Philadelphia Housing Authority building were not working, so the 40-year-old firefighter and his lieutenant began climbing the stairs.

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