Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11

Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11

From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live

When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odo…

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