![]() They found the building still standing, but it, too, was covered in debris. Using their FDNY connections, Keane and his colleagues obtained passes allowing them to enter the street where the bar is located, even though a large area around the collapsed towers remained cordoned off for months. It was partly due to this relationship that O’Hara’s managed to reopen in April 2002, earlier than many other nearby businesses. One block away is the FDNY’s Engine 10, Ladder 10 firehouse, which lost six men on 9/11, including a retired captain who had been working as the fire marshal for the World Trade Center.įirefighters from the “Ten House,” as it is known, have been coming to O’Hara’s since it opened in 1983 and many were close to the bar’s staff. The bar’s close ties to first responders is not without reason. Too many places and too many patches to count, Keane said. Now, the walls have become a road map of America’s emergency responders - Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Baton Rouge. ![]() As the word got out, cops and firefighters came to O’Hara’s on pilgrimages, adding their own patches to the collage that honors the 343 New York City firefighters, 23 New York police officers, 37 Port Authority police officers and eight paramedics who died on 9/11. The gesture took hold and became a tradition as the years passed. Some of the visitors posted cloth patches with the insignias of their departments to the walls of the bar.
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