18/09/2023
Has always been an legend. Thanks for sharing Allen Hansen.
Fact Slap 👋
Today in 2001, the actor Steve Buscemi returned to his old fire house in Manhattan's Little Italy, Engine 55. Put on a spare uniform and went to work.
Buscemi trained as a fire fighter in 1980 and worked in the FNDY until left to pursue acting in 1984.
He worked for several days in the rubble of the towers, working 12 hour shifts and refused interviews with the press. He has only now began to open up about happened that day and that he is suffering with a form of PTSD from what he saw in the wreckage. Prior to this all he ever said on the matter was that he and his then wife provided pizza, drinks and support to the other crew’s families.
In 2014 he was appointed an Honorary Battalion Chief of the FDNY.