The Sunday Mail-Scotland paper-Contributed by Jim Pearsall
They were the New York Fire Deptpartment's Band of Brothers. Forty-nine friends who organised pipe band practice night around their shifts, finetuning renditions of Scotland the Brave and The Braemar Gathering. Together they went to Glasgow for the World Pipe Band Championships and together they risked their lives rushing to the aid of people fleeing the doomed World Trade Center Durrell 'Bronco' Pearsall is the band's snare drummer. Durrell was at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow four years ago. The band stayed with firefighters from the Strathclyde brigade. New Yor Fire Department Pipes and Drums -which includes 18 retired officers-proudly boast of their links with Scotland and Ireland.

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