First Assistant Fire Chief Donald Dowd and Captain Peter Coffey were operating the fire department’s jet sled ”Beau” in the area of the Varick Street Hydro-Electric Plant when Captain Coffey, the operator of the boat, while transversing the river, struck a steel pole sideswiping off that pole forcing him to strike a second pole.
As members of the Oswego Fire Department marched to the fire station this morning to honor those who died 10 years ago today, a child called out to his father. “Hi daddy,” he said. Immediately everyone’s thoughts turned to the hundreds of children who forever lost the chance to say that to their fathers on Sept. 11, 2001.
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