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A former New York Police Department police officer, Richard Picciotto is a
28 year veteran of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). As a fire fighter,
he has served as a fire marshal, arson investigator, lieutenant, captain and chief.
According to Margaret Flanagan of Booklist, Chief Richard Picciotto’s
book, Last Man Down: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center, is a “ gripping,
first-person account of a 9-11 survivor provides a firefighter's view of the World Trade Center catastrophe. An invaluable
eyewitness to history as well as a professional just doing his job, Battalion Commander Richard Picciotto was inside the North
Tower when it collapsed. Determined to be the last man down, Picciotto coordinated the rescue effort of several dozen incapacitated
civilians. Stranded on the landing between the sixth and seventh floors when the building came tumbling down around and on
top of him, Chief "Pitch," a small band of fellow firefighters, and one grandmotherly civilian improbably survived the collapse
in a small vacuum created by the placement of the twisted debris.”
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