Tony Bonfiglio

Everybody knows Brenda.

Did it feel like they were totally against the women?

They were.

It was an all male place, you know?

And, you know, I guess a lot of guys, they don't feel like they didn't mind the women that really passed the test, but to just get on because you're a woman that was not, you know, today now they have girls, you know, there's so much,

into athletics and stuff, they could pass these tests now.

And a liability for their own life.

That too, yeah.

But I mean, if your kid is trapped in a fire, you know, you want the best person going to get that kid, not, you know, somebody that didn't make it.

But they saved me, and I'm the luckiest guy for that.

And does it have flames on the- My wife came.

I come pulling up in the parking lot from working at Mastercraft Litho, and I had a little Chevette.

We both shared this little Chevette car that my wife bought on her own when we were kids.

And I see her coming across the parking lot with a wave in the-

I said, what is it?

She goes, the fire department watch, six years.

Fire department watch, they're going to hire you.

I said, holy shit.

I looked at it.

Tony Bonfiglio, New York City fireman, report to Randall's Island, 823 something, 84.