Worst Day for NYFD Since 9/11

Today, three New York Firefighters died fighting a blaze in the Bronx. It was the worst one-day death toll since 9/11 when 343 firefighters died when the Towers collapsed.

Three city firefighters were killed while responding to two separate apartment blazes -- the deadliest day for New York firefighters since the 2001 terror attacks...Two of the victims -- Lt. Curtis Meyran and John Bellew -- were forced to jump from a fourth-floor window of a Bronx apartment building early Sunday as flames trapped them and four other crew members. The four other men were severely injured..."When the fire from the third floor broke through to the fourth, they were faced with a horrifying choice," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "They jumped out a fourth-floor window, knowing that they would be critically injured."

Mixed emotions on this one. On the one hand, THANK GOD that 3 is now considered to be a bad day and that there have been no comparable days since 9/11/01. On the other hand, it is a sad, sad day for these men and their families. Our prayers are with them.