Fire Lieut. Joseph DiBernardo Jr. didn’t want to capitalize on the Black Sunday fire in which he’d been seriously injured in 2005. Along with five other firefighters that January morning, he was caught without enough ropes to escape safely from a fourth-floor window in a Bronx tenement. Jumping 50 feet to the ground, he landed on his feet and broke every bone from the waist down. Two of his colleagues didn’t survive.
After his long recovery, when he traveled the country teaching firefighters about safety, Mr. DiBernardo typically refused speaking fees, accepting only travel expenses, his father, Joseph, said in an interview last week.
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