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
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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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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