This poem is on a picture hanging at Fire Station 2 in Laguna Beach, Ca. I
must have read it hundreds of times over my 20 year career. It was one
the greatest adventures in my life.
The firefighter in the photograph is Christopher J. Reynolds, who
retired from the Holyoke Fire Department earlier this year as a deputy
chief. At the time of the blaze, on Nov. 10, 1992, he was a 37-year-old
lieutenant.