NYC Firefighter-Author Shares His 9/11 Experiences With Temple U. Students

September 7, 2011 1:02 PM

(New York City firefighter Fabrizio Bivona holds a copy of “Gone But Not Forgotten,” his book about his 9/11 experiences, today at Temple University. Credit: Hadas Kuznits)

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Temple University today hosted a program to mark the approaching ten-year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.

New York City firefighter Fabrizio Bivona, a first responder at the World Trade Center in 2001, was here at Temple University today as part of a 9/11 concert and presentation.

“Fifteen thousand children lost their parents that day,” he says. “A lot of people don’t realize that — and that’s 15,000 kids whose lives were permanently altered in the blink of an eye.”

Listen to Hadas Kuznits’ interview with Fabrizio Bivona in this CBS Philly “Specials Place” podcast…

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Bivona says it’s interesting to him to speak to college students about the terrorist attacks of ten years ago.

“I think it’s very important. I think it actually dooms us as a nation — even as humanity — if we don’t honor people who are willing to do more for others than themselves.”

And he says he can’t believe a decade has already gone by.

“It’s unbelievable to me,” he told KYW Newsradio today. “For me it’s like it just happened yesterday. I mean, for me there are things imprinted in my mind forever. I saw people jumping from the buildings. I have a 30-year career so I thought I had seen it all. Until 9/11. And then I realized I hadn’t seen it all yet.”

Reported by Hadas Kuznits, KYW Newsradio 1060

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NYC Firefighter Author Shares His 9/11 Experiences With Temple U. Students

Reina Howard

Mr. Fabrizio Bivona, thank you for your service and sacrifice; thank you for sharing your experience as a first respondent after the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. Please know that there are many of us who will always be thankful for you and others like you who risked their lives on 9/11; and we will also remember the lives that were lost and the pain of their loved ones. Never forget that we will always remember.

God bless you!!!
Reina Howard

To Miss Hadas Kuznits,

It was NOT Temple University that had the 10-Year Anniversary Memorial Concert, it was the initiative of the student organization called, Temple University Students for Intellectual Freedom (TUSIF); and this is the Executive Board, President and Chair of Political Affairs, Alvaro Watson; Vice President and Communications Chair, Jeremy Williams; and Chair of Public and Social Policy, Dominick Lebo. The singer was Elizabeth Salvatico and her band. In the future I hope that you will give more complete reports of the events that you cover, and credit to those who take the initiative to organize events as this one.

Thank you!