Report from Ground Zero
Chapter One
Retired Firefighter Jimmy Boyle
Former President, Uniformed Firefighters Association
Jimmy Boyle is, without a doubt, the most beloved man within the New York Fire Department family. He is the kind of man who looks you in the eye, and when he does you know he is interested in you. How are you? How is your family? How are the kids, and do they need help finding a job, or the right doctor, or with admission into a college, or with a transfer from one firehouse to another or one precinct to another? Jimmy found early on in his career that he had a gift for getting things done, and for only one reason: People trusted him and would do anything for him. He never had to tell a fabricated story or stretch the truth. His honesty and reliability got him elected to the presidency of the firefighters' union, the Uniformed Firefighters Association, in the early nineties, and he served his men tirelessly, going to every one of their company dances, company picnics, weddings, baptisms, twenty-year parties, retirement rackets, hospital beds, rest homes, and funerals ... read full excerpt from: Report from Ground Zero ebook
