Actor Denis Leary's Firefighters Foundation, volunteer labor from the Carpenters Council of New York City and corporate sponsors like Frigidaire teamed up to reopen 4 firehouses in New Orleans. The city lost 22 of 33 firehouses during Katrina.
City leaders could not or would not make rebuilding first responder facilities a top priority. If not for donated materials and labor, firefighters would still be in trailers and their firehouses gutted and unusable, more than two years after the storm.
The Leary Foundation vowed to fix up 11 of the hurricane damaged fire stations.
Is it a national disgrace that city firefighters have to depend on the kindness of strangers to get back in a fixed wall facility? Who do you blame? Did city leaders do all they could to help rescue the resuers?