Tony Bonfiglio
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Praying, everything.
I figured, let me go back up to the floor because the other two guys were working on the mother.
And when I got there, the EMS already took over, and I was like, holy shit.
And it was like the first fire we had where the windows didn't break open.
They were the new windows that the Gambino crime family put in in all of Manhattan, and they didn't break like the old windows, so it never got air.
So it smoldered, and they died from the smoke.
And that stayed with me for years.
Sometimes I would smell and taste the burnt lips and everything.
That's heartbreaking.
The guys were listening up.
I took my turnout coat off, and I just went in.
We all took showers.
And then the boss says into the office, you know, let's talk about it.
So he says, you know, we did everything we could.
There really wasn't nothing else we could do.
I mean, not having the mask didn't hamper us at all because we still got the bodies.