Firefighter Louis Arena
Ladder 5

Laid to Rest on
September 19, 2001

Arena was a firefighter with the New York fire department, died trying to help others. "It's so typical of him. He was always helping people," said his wife, Wanda. "He was not concerned about himself." It was a trait he developed early. His sister, JoAnn Arena-Eisinger, recalled telling her then-3-year-old brother that she was hungry one day. "He walked down to the (store), got a loaf of bread and walked out with it," she said. He brought it home to her. "You said you needed something, you got it," Arena-Eisinger said.

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