Steven Mosiello rejected other officers; suggestions to go home. He had to be there when his boss' body was recovered. Then he went to deliver the terrible news to Chief Ganci's widow.
Thomas Vallebuona and other exhausted fire chiefs took a break to phone home. Some learned that there had been two other hijackings. One hit the Pentagon, the other crashed short of the terrorists' target when the passengers rushed the cockpit.
Other first responders left to shower and rest before returning to work at the tragic site.
But Ladder 118 didn't return to its Brooklyn quarters. Its crew were killed when the South Tower collapsed.
Ordinarily, their replacements would erase the firehouse's assignment board and sign in. Instead there, to this day, are the chalk-scrawled names:
Lt. Robert Regan
Leon Smith
Vernon Cherry
Scott Davidson
Peter Vega
Joey Agnello
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