Michael
Boyle, a firefighter for the New York Fire Department, joined the department in
1996 and hoped to be president of the firefighters union one day, as his father
once was. James Boyle, a retired firefighter who was president of the Uniformed
Firefighters Association from 1983 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1993, spoke
to his son briefly the morning of Sept. 11, then set out on foot from Brooklyn
to the World Trade Center after the second hijacked jet struck. He was about two
blocks away when Tower 2 collapsed. “It looked like it was 10 o’clock
at night and I realized it would be a miracle if he was alive,” Boyle said.
Michael
Boyle, a firefighter for the New York Fire Department, joined the department in
1996 and hoped to be president of the firefighters union one day, as his father
once was. James Boyle, a retired firefighter who was president of the Uniformed
Firefighters Association from 1983 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1993, spoke
to his son briefly the morning of Sept. 11, then set out on foot from Brooklyn
to the World Trade Center after the second hijacked jet struck. He was about two
blocks away when Tower 2 collapsed. “It looked like it was 10 o’clock
at night and I realized it would be a miracle if he was alive,” Boyle said.