The Worcester 6

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Today marks the 7th anniversary of the tragic Cold Storage warehouse fire that killed 6 firefighters in Worcester, MA.

Paul Brotherton

Jeremiah Lucey

Thomas Spencer

Timothy Jackson

James Lyons

Joseph McGuirk

Let's not forget how these guys died, nor how they lived.

If anyone is interested in learning more about this tragedy and these mens sacrifice, there's a great book out on it:

"3000 Degrees" by Shaun Flynn"

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearc...885408839&itm=1

A team of heroic firefighters is sent into the breach of danger when a storage warehouse in Worcester, Massachusetts, goes up in flames in December 1999. Although started by a seemingly innocent Christmas candle, the resulting inferno will become a test of the firefighters' resourcefulness, bravery, and endurance.

From the Publisher

In the fading industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts, there are men whose jobs are to brave danger, endure long shifts, and trust other men with their lives. Like their counterparts in cities and small towns everywhere, they are firefighters, and like firefighters everywhere, they take enormous pride in their brotherhood and their calling. On December 3, 1999, as the men of Central Street and other Worcester stations lived their daily lives, worked second jobs, and raised their children, they did not know an inferno unlike anything they had ever seen was about to put them to the ultimate test.The fire at Worcester Cold Storage was ignited by two vagrants' Christmas candle. When the first firefighters arrived on the scene, the building-a hulking, abandoned, windowless warehouse-was waiting to explode. As men fought to contain the flames with hoses, they were suddenly surrounded by confusing, suffocating darkness and searing steam. Worcester Cold Storage-with its mazelike layout and rooms so insulated that they prevented men from hearing each other's alarms-was turning into a furious beast, disorienting those inside it, seemingly determined to kill as many men as it could.

3000 Degrees stands with the best works of American reportage. Sean Flynn takes us into the private lives of men heading inexorably into one sudden shared, overwhelming battle. He captures the agony of working wives and mothers hearing the news with mounting terror and a community being hurtled toward unbearable loss. Most of all, he vividly depicts the moments of truth, when ordinary men know that their brothers are going to die, and that to live with themselves, to take another single breath, they too must be prepared to lay down their lives.

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Today marks the 7th anniversary of the tragic Cold Storage warehouse fire that killed 6 firefighters in Worcester, MA.

Paul Brotherton

Jeremiah Lucey

Thomas Spencer

Timothy Jackson

James Lyons

Joseph McGuirk

Let's not forget how these guys died, nor how they lived.

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May they all rest in peace. My thoughts and prayers are with their families.

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Rest In Peace guys

Edited December 4, 2006 by CPAGE