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The Bravest
Monday
October 1, 2001
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scene was so horribly surreal that it seemed like
a Hollywood disaster movie, complete with a cast
of larger-than-life super heroes. None more courageous
than New York’s bravest who laid down their lives
for the innocent and helpless trapped inside this
towering inferno.
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Tammy Leech says, “As soon as that building started to collapse my reaction was, 'Oh, my God, there's firefighters in there.’"
As it turned out, Tammy actually knew 11 of the more than 300 firefighters who died in the World Trade Center horror. Ironically, Tammy had been documenting their bravery before the rest of us got to tragically witness it for ourselves
She says, “Those guys are the most courageous, yet humble, individuals I’ve ever met"
Now they're being honored and memorialized as the stars of the debut episode of "The Bravest," a syndicated TV series that literally walks through the flames with America’s firefighters. Tammy says, “They're a special breed of men."
Tammy, one of the executive producers, spent the summer breathing smoke as she rode 24/7 with the firefighters of New York and seven other cities. Tammy says, “False alarms, emergency calls, traumas, whatever they did, we were there."
Tammy and her team captured it all on cameras as firefighters rescued people from blazing buildings, freed accident victims trapped in tangled wreckage, and fought back flames that could ignite a deadly explosion. Tammy says, “Each and every one of them will tell you that if they're not afraid, they're either a liar or a fool."
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