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Former NYFD firefighter reflects on 9/11 By KaTE NalEPiNSKi knalepinski@liherald.com
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SEaFoRd RESidENT aNd 9/11 Memorial Committee President Ken Haskell, former U.S. Rep. Peter King and committee chairman Tom Condon at the Patriot Award dinner on June 29.
In a flurry of sorrow and grief, a community group rises By KaTE NalEPiNSKi, MalloRy WilSoN and STEPHaNiE BaNaT knalepinski@liherald.com
In late September 2001, Massapequa resident Thomas Condon, then a Seaford High School guidance counselor, was coaching a football game when he was approached by Ken Haskell, of Seaford, at a game. Haskell, a second-generation firefighter, had lost both of his brothers, Timothy and
Thomas, in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. The brothers — also New York City firefighters — died after they entered the north and south towers in a rescue operation. Haskell, exhausted, spent most days that month and the following months at g round z ero searching for the bodies of his brothers and helping with the recovery effort. Thomas (class of 1982) and Timothy (class of 1985)
Haskell were two of the five former Seaford alumni who died in the terrorist attacks. Also lost were Wantagh native Robert Sliwak (Seaford class of 1977), John William Perry (class of 1982) and Michael Wittenstein (class of 1985). “[Ken] said, ‘We got to do something for my brothers,’ and I said, ‘Absolutely, Ken,’” Condon recalled. Once Condon mentioned the additional Continued on page 4
For most Americans, including Seaford resident Ken Haskell, Sept. 11, 2001, began like any normal day. Haskell, a second-generation New York City firefighter who was assigned to the FDNY’s Engine 309, part of Ladder 159 in southern Brooklyn, was off that day. The then 32-year-old planned to tackle some home renovations. While at a local store buying tile, Haskell caught a glimpse of a TV screen, and found out that American Airlines Flight 11 had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. “I realized that was no accident,” he recalled. “I immediately dropped what I was doing and ran to my firehouse.” Though the Long Island
Expressway was partially shut down, Haskell said he showed his identification and was able to get through. After he arrived at the firehouse, he and other firefighters who were off-duty that day commandeered a bus from a nearby transportation hub and headed to Lower Manhattan. While they were on the Manhattan Bridge, the north tower, like the south tower before it, collapsed. Haskell turned to a fellow firefighter on the bus and said, “We’re all going to know somebody who died today.” At the time, he had no idea whether his two brothers, Timothy and Thomas Haskell, also New York City firefighters, were working that day. Timmy, of FDNY Squad 18, had been relieved from duty but still responded. Timmy had lived in Lower Manhattan at the time, so, Continued on page 13
BRoTHERS TiMoTHy aNd Thomas Haskell, Seaford High School alumni, at a parade in March 2001. Both died that Sept. 11. Courtesy Dawn Carbone
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