When the South Tower imploded at 10 a.m., Feehan and his men narrowly escaped death by running into an underground garage. “Relax, relax, kid,” he told a frightened firefighter. Ignoring the threat of a second collapse, Feehan led his men back out to save lives–and he was trying to pull an injured woman from a pile of concrete rubble when the North Tower came down. Feehan was killed, one of 343 New York firemen to die during the World Trade Center disaster. It was the worst loss ever suffered by a fire department. But the Feehan legacy lives on; his 8-year-old grandson Connor Davan wants to be a fireman when he grows up.
