The poem in the picture was hanging at Fire Station 2, Laguna Beach, Ca. I must have read it hundreds of times over 20 years. It was one the greatest adventures of 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.
