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Michael Meyers

Michael Meyers

FDNY Chief of Training; former Chief of Safety and Assistant Chief in Operations; 34-year veteran of the Fire Department of New York City

Jun 21, 2026

29:01
Can you just, just talk about your personal experience there?
29:04
When I arrived, I saw the rig.
29:07
Again, there was a lot of 1,000-yard stares.
29:10
That's, that's the, that's the line I would use, and, and including my captain, you know, Brian Hickey, he was sitting on the front bumper of the rig, and, uh, I ca- I, I didn't know how I was gonna talk about this.
29:21
I have talked about it before, but, uh, you know, kinda r- r- going back to what Harry Ford says about making your words sweet in case you gotta eat them, I kinda, without contextual knowledge of actually what was going on in the scene, I jumped to a conclusion.
29:34
You know, I, I went up, and I saw the captain on the front step.
29:38
He said that, uh, Harry and, uh, John Downey, multiple guys were at the hospital, and, uh, he said Brian is still in the building.

11 MINS LATER

40:39
You know, you were talking about Chief Downey and-

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