Volume Number 1 Issue Number 4 | October 20 - 26, 2006

Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Remembering fallen Bravest
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, fourth from left, and firefighters observe a moment of silence at a memorial ceremony for the 12 firefighters who died 40 years ago on Oct. 17, 1966, battling a blaze in the basement of a drugstore on 23rd St. near Broadway. It was the city’s largest one-day loss of firefighters until 9/11.