A mom’s like to honor her hero son was on show at Boylston Street’s Engine 33 and Ladder 15 station.
That’s the place Kathy Crosby-Bell fulfilled a promise.
“When Michael died, I was told his hose never got water in that awful fire,” Crosby-Bell mentioned on the station Tuesday recalling one of many worst fires the Back Bay had seen. “At Michael’s gravesite, I swore to him I would fix it.”
She was readily available to assist introduce the “Snap Tite Warrior Fire Hose” that was funded by a donation from the Last Call Foundation. Mayor Michelle Wu devoted the hose to Firefighter Michael R. Kennedy, 33, and Fire Lt. Edward J. Walsh Jr., 43.
Both jakes died combating a wind-whipped blaze at 298 Beacon St. on March 26, 2014. Boston Fire Department Commissioner Paul Burke mentioned this new hose will be capable of higher stand up to the warmth from such a blaze — and save those that come to the rescue.
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