Firefighters still seeking justice 10 years after Deutsche Bank fire in Lower Manhattan

  • Source: WABC-TV 7online.com
  • Published: 08/16/2017 01:51 AM

This week marks 10 years since the devastating fire in Lower Manhattan that killed two of New York's Bravest. A decade ago, a fire sparked by a worker's cigarette turned the condemned former Deutsche Bank building into an inferno of toxic smoke and flames that killed two firefighters and injured more than 100. "It's pitch black, choking acrid smoke, it was horrible," former FDNY Firefighter Steve Olsen said. Olsen was on the 15th floor wondering why it was taking so long for ground crews to get water up to the fire, but what he and the other firefighters didn't know was that the standpipe --which is the main source for water -- had been cut during the demolition work overseen by contractor Bovis Lend Lease. With no water, the fire raged out of control.



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