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Maltese cross from call box 191, which has served as a memorial to five buffalo firefighters killed in a propane explosion ...
It’s been more than 40 years since Buffalo’s deadliest fire department tragedy — but a recent act of vandalism has reopened ...
Charles Brocato couldn't take his eyes off of the honorary challenge coin of achievement, and certainly not the Maltese Cross. Hard and long, he gazed at them. “Memories,” the old firefighter ...
Most fire apparatus, and many shirts, uniforms and badges worn by firefighters, bear the shape of the eight-pointed Maltese Cross with its familiar red circle and four sides.Every fire department ...
EASTON, Pa. -- A display in Easton's Centre Square honors New York City's bravest. There were 343 Maltese crosses placed there, one for each firefighter killed on Sept. 11, 2001. The goal is to ...
Firefighter/EMT William J. "B.J." McCale, age 50, ... The seven-foot stone monument at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial was constructed in 1981, featuring a Maltese Cross.
The American flag flies at half staff in front of the Village of Owego Municipal Building. A few hundred feet away, the lighted Maltese cross on the front of the central fire ...