Michael D'Auria got to live his boyhood dream even if only for nine weeks. D’Auria longed for years to become a firefighter. He reached his goal this year and was on thejob just nine weeks when he responded to the World Trade Center attacks. Before he joined the department, D’Auria attended culinary school and became a gourmet chef, cooking at variouseateries in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island. A fellow firefighter said D’Auria’s skills did not go unnoticed at the firehouse: “When we saw Mike’s name on the board, we knew we were going to eat good that night.”
--The Associated Press

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