Lynn’s Legere lent helping hand at ground zero

LYNN – As they watched first one, then a second skyscraper collapse into a smoking heap on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Jack Decareau turned to fellow fireman Dave Legere and asked, “Who do you think is in those buildings?”
Without replying, Legere knew he and Decareau had just witnessed the deaths of hundreds of New York firefighters as well as police officers who had rushed into the World Trade Center towers to rescue trapped office workers. The overwhelming sense of helplessness he felt at that moment prompted Legere to board a train a week later to New York and volunteer to help out on the gigantic rubble pile known the world over as ground zero.
Legere recalls his days in New York eight years ago with The Daily Item. FOr complete story and photos see Friday’s Daily Item andwww.itemlive.com