1.   Amazingly, none of the three firefighters died, though all were seriously injured.

2.   But that information was never passed onto the incident commander or the nearly dozen firefighters who entered the building through an east-end doorway.

3.   Buzzell said the other firefighters were able to leave through a front door where an engineer was shining a light through the thick smoke.

4.   Dio maintained that analysis of taped radio transmissions indicated that a commander knew the two firefighters were on the fifth floor.

5.   Fire Commissioner Howard Safir said that Valentino and the other firefighters entered the building looking for possible victims.

6.   Graybill said he and his partner were the first two firefighters at the scene, and the mother immediately handed each of them a child.

7.   He was able to enlarge the hole just enough to drop down a rope to get the two firefighters out.

8.   It is that spirit of giving and sacrifice that will be highlighted today, in memory of the three firefighters.

9.   It was a brush fire, so the other firefighters said he could forget about it and return to the bakery.

10.   It was only when word spread that Gorumba was missing that the other firefighters found him unconscious in the truck.