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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Remembering Black Sunday: The tragic Bronx Fire and its impact.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Remembering Black Sunday: The tragic Bronx Fire and its impact. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/otcpod1/support

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0:00.0

There has to be some common sense.

0:24.6

Yes, sir, and they have the car stop intended branch bike fire.

0:28.6

We still don't know who pulled the trigger. Hello everyone and welcome to Police Off the Cuff Real Crime Stories.

0:56.6

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

1:03.5

Folks, tonight we're telling a story a little bit different than what we usually do.

1:08.9

And it's a story called Black Sunday. And it's a story called Black Sunday.

1:11.6

And it's the story of some firefighters,

1:15.6

FDNY, not some firefighters, FDNY,

1:18.6

that responded to 236 East 178th Street in the Bronx.

1:23.6

This was January 23rd of 2005. And so many things went wrong. And at the end of this

1:30.9

job, two New York City firefighters would lose their lives. Another four would be seriously injured.

1:39.5

And one, in fact, one would succumb to his injuries six years later.

1:45.0

And we're going to go over this story, actually with the daughter of firefighter John Ballou,

1:52.3

who lost his life on that January 23rd of 2005.

1:56.9

Katriana Ballou at the time was two years old.

2:01.0

And she's at the ripe old age now of 20 years old.

2:03.9

And she's going to be telling her story in a screenplay.

2:08.1

And we're going to attempt to tell parts of this story tonight.

2:11.8

And with, of course, the help of Catriana.

2:16.0

The New York Times described it as so. It was a day in New York City that

2:21.0

no firefighter could forget. Six of the department's own, battling a blaze in a Bronx apartment

2:27.7

building on a brutally cold Sunday in 2005, became trapped on the fourth floor,

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