Captain
Terence Hatton
Rescue 1
Laid
to Rest
on October 4, 2001.
Knowing
the Drill
Terence S. Hatton did not like surprises. A captain in the Fire
Department, he took his squad to tour buildings when there were
no smoke or flames, or people to rescue. "He was very knowledgeable
about the history of Manhattan and its buildings," said Alfred
Benjamin, a firefighter who was a member of the captain's squad
at Rescue Company 1 in Times Square. Captain Hatton was a 20-year
veteran of the department. The firehouse is an elite force of
about 25 firefighters, whose mission is to perform rescues.
It is one of the busiest houses in the city, with 10 runs a
day -- very few of them are false alarms. Captain Hatton, 41,
once took his rescue team on a drill to a small theater on 43rd
Street, off Eighth Avenue, so that they would know what to expect.
"The theater looks small from the outside, but it's a tremendous
building," Mr. Benjamin said. "It has sub-cellars, and the performers
have dressing rooms in one of the basements. We wouldn't have
known that if we hadn't done the drill." Profile published in
THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 5, 2001.
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