9/11 Stories: Rob Serra

21 year old Rob Serra hadn’t even officially started his new job as a New York City firefighter on September 11th.  He had just graduated from the FDNY Academy September 10th.  He was to report to his  first day on the job as a firefighter on the 13th.  Ironically, his entire class was scheduled  to be at The World Trade Center September 12th, to be “victims” in an FBI terror drill.
It was Rob’s FDNY brother, Andy, who called  him about the attack on The World Trade Center, directing him to get his gear and report to the firehouse.  A bus took  the firefighters of Engine 5 to the Staten Island Ferry, which would  transport them across the harbor to Lower Manhattan. Rob remembers other firefighters on the bus busting his chops.  He was such a proby, so new to the game, his head was freshy shaved, he looked like he was just 15. He was  so new , he had to cut the tags from his gear. The gear was new, never used. The laughter  and jokes filling the bus stopped when an FDNY  Chaplain addressed the team. The firefighters didn’t know what they were heading into. Fighter jets were flying overheard. Was this war? The Chaplain  began to speak, describing what they faced in Lower Manhattan and then proceeded to  give the entire busload of FDNY’ers their last rites, preceded by a psalm.
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