Alexander Hagan last week had already removed all of his personal photos from his office: the many snaps of his family, but also the one that captured himself in a very different time—in gym shorts as a young man who competed in five marathons when he wasn’t fighting fires.
As he got ready to retire on Aug. 30, the Uniformed Fire Officers Association president and Fire Captain, now 64, looked back fondly on a time when on nice days, he sometimes ran the 13 miles to work.
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