Title: Strong of Heart
First published: 2002
Description: "Thomas Von Essen, New York City's Thirtieth Fire Commissioner, had seen just about everything during his thirty-one-year career in the fire department: building collapses, raging infernos, heroic rescues, and power struggles. But nothing could have prepared him, or the fire department, for the devastation that occurred on September 11, 2001. In just 102 minutes, the mighty twin towers were reduced to rubble, and the Fire Department of New York had lost 343 men.

Many of them were Von Essen's friends and colleagues, men whose exemplary lives had contributed mightily to his love of the department."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fire fighters, Death, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, Fire departments, Officials and employees, Biography, New York (N.Y.). Fire Dept, New York (N.Y.)., New York (N.Y.). Fire Department, New York Times reviewed, Fire fighters, new york (state), new york
Places: New York (State), New York
People: Thomas Von Essen
LC classification: HV6432 .V65 2002