The number of young firefighters in the department has grown after the wave of post-Sept.

Generally, the youngest firefighter is asked to chalk up the list on the board.

He also kept an eye on the younger firefighters.

He estimated it would take a young firefighter 60 years of fighting fires to have the same level of expertise as firefighters did back then.

It annoyed some younger firefighters that the kid, who had the chance to work in one of the city's best firehouses, kept slipping up.

He was 29, one of the company's youngest firefighters.

He was also a mentor to younger firefighters.

A young firefighter they didn't know opened the door and greeted them curtly.

They, unlike the young firefighters who perished, apparently did not leave behind grieving widows and children.

A young firefighter whose life was spared is flooded with gratitude and searching for a meaning in his survival.