Emmett Daly Jr. was just a kindergartener on the day of the World Trade Center attacks and what he remembers more than his father responding with Ladder 120 is his mother battling a fire in his home caused by a broken dishwasher.
While Daly’s dad attended to the aftermath at ground zero, his mom used a fire extinguisher on the dishwasher and, when that failed to put out the fire, escaped the house with her young son to let volunteer firefighters douse the flames.
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