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department resumed the practice of giving safety ropes to firefighters by
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Lieutenant Curtis W. Meyran, who was in command of Ladder 27. The other four, Brendan Cawley, Jeff Cool, Joe DiBernardo, and Gene Stolowski, were severely injured and disabled and had to retire. DiBernardo died six years later; he had been promoted to lieutenant in May 2005 and Bellew received a
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partitions. Six firefighters on the fourth floor were trapped when the fire flashed through the door of the apartment, and at 8:30 to 8:32 a.m., unable to find a fire escape, they jumped from the windows. Only two had an escape rope, which one of them had bought for himself. Two were killed in the
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