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Video from the scene Wednesday afternoon showed firefighters spraying water on orange flames that were leaping into the sky from a hole in the middle of Hooes Road.

The eyes of people like Thomas Patrick Cullen III, firefighter, Squad 41, husband, father, 31 years old.

“This [investigation] is part of routine procedure following the death of any firefighter,” he told The Daily Beast.

“After the withdraw, they realized that firefighter Craig-Lewis was missing,” said Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Derrick Sawyer.

Newspaper clippings, many of them with pictures of the owner, a former Gary firefighter, are everywhere.

The legendary Captain Paddy Brown was by some accounts the most decorated firefighter in the nation.

They rushed for the footbridge and a firefighter blocked their way.

Suzanne grabbed his hand and walked him over to the truck and grabbed the first firefighter she encountered.

The fire was out now, the firefighter hosing down the last embers, going through the crowd and checking for injuries.

Every day a retired firefighter returns to Ground Zero, to feel closer to his two sons who died there.