Love your job, seminar speaker tells firefighters

Love your job, seminar speaker tells firefighters

BOARDMAN

Lt. Scott Maxwell with Rescue 3 of the New York Fire Department lived through 9/11 while 343 other firefighters and paramedics died — that’s his legacy, but not his message.

“Part of my legacy is I survived the World Trade Center,” he said after his speech at a daylong seminar today for firefighters in Mahoning County. “But I’m telling firefighters how to love their jobs.”

Maxwell, who at the time was a lieutenant in charge of an engine company in Brooklyn, did touch on what it was like that day as he spoke just before the seminar, at Boardman High School, concluded.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.