New York City firefighter Steven Olson's family has endured more than its share of tragedy. Olson, 28, who climbed into danger Tuesday, trying to help people trapped in the World Trade Center, is presumed dead. His mother, father and sister were killed in a traffic accident when he was in high school, said Olson's aunt and godmother, Grace Olson. Two years later, his brother died in an accident at an electrical substation. --David Heinzmann (The Chicago Tribune) ******* Steven Olson would relax after a 24-hour shift at the firehouse by reading, playing a board game or solving a word puzzle. After his 6-year-old daughter, Jaclyn, won a word puzzle contest at school, her mother, Patricia, asked where she learned the skill. “From Daddy,” the girl replied. “It’s hard to absorb how a man with such presence could be gone,” Patricia Olson said. “There was no one like him.” --The Associated Press

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