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First FDNY chief to enter World Trade Center on 9/11 recalls seeing brother for last time

Joseph Pfeifer was the first FDNY chief to enter the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, where he set up a command post after terror struck. Pfeifer remembers seeing his fire lieutenant brother, Kevin Pfiefer, for the last time…

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