The Chicago firefighter rushed to the scene after hearing his own address come over the scanner.
“Everywhere she went, she meant something to everybody. She was just that kind of person,” her sister, Sarah Day, told the television station. “She was so unique.”
Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford said that Walter Stewart rushed to the scene after hearing his own address come over the scanner,“How do you come back from that?” Amber Day told the television station. “How do you recover from that? How do you go on knowing that that was your life? That was it?”
“Every member of Local 2 and the Department mourns with our brother Walter and the Stewart family. This tragedy weighs heavy on our hearts, and we pledge our ongoing support,” Jim Tracy, president of Local 2, told
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