The attack hit the FDNY particularly hard, killing 343 firefighters that day — with about 370 more dying from 9/11-related illness in the years afterward. Otten’s brother, Ladder 127’s ...
343 times the bell tolled — each chime representing one of the FDNY firefighters who lost their life at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. Their run and their watch, now coming to an end.