It’s now been two decades since six FDNY firefighters were forced to leap from the fourth floor of a Bronx building, killing two and critically injuring four ...
Bergin, who was 9 at the time, works at Ladder ... s death. FDNY “I remember the day we were told he wasn’t coming home,” said Bergin, who had two sisters who were 6 and 12 at the time.
It wasn’t a raging inferno or a chemical explosion or a fall from an angled ladder that took the life of FDNY Lt. Joseph Maiello. Maiello died of natural causes while on duty in his Staten ...