New York’s Bravest bowed their heads in silent reflection Saturday as they marked one year since the death of Firefighter Michael Davidson with a poignant plaque dedication at the Harlem firehouse he considered his second home.
Scores of firefighters dabbed away tears as Davidson’s wife remembered meeting her future husband. “I think back to the beginning, to meeting him and looking into his eyes and seeing something so special, so deep, and so very real," Eileen Davidson told the overflow crowd at Engine 69 and Ladder 28 on W. 143rd St., where her husband served for 15 years. "I knew right away that this man was meant to be in my life forever.”
“There was a light in this man, one that burned so bright that even if you only met him once, you remembered him," she said, looking at her four children Brooke, Joey, Emily and Amy. “I see Daddy in each of your smiles.”