Firefighter Dennis Scauso
Haz Mat Company 1

Memorial Service was held
on November 26, 2001

Dennis Scauso was the kind of boy next door who wouldn't give his pesky neighbor girl the time of day -- that is until 20 years later, when he married her. A change in careers for Scauso and a family crisis for his future wife, Janlyn, reunited the two in their childhood Commack neighborhood not more than a decade ago. It was then that Scauso fell in love with the same little girl who used to spy on him as he tossed the football with her older brothers in the back yard or fixed up cars in his driveway. "I had a crush on him," said Janlyn Scauso, 39. "But I just never thought it was returned until we were older." Scauso, 46, a New York City firefighter who was part of the Hazardous Materials Company No. 1 in Maspeth, was in Tower Two Sept. 11 when it collapsed.
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