They were kids when 9/11 happened. Here’s why they became firefighters

Twenty-three years after almost 3,000 people were killed when terrorists hijacked passenger jets and purposefully crashed them in the worst attack on America in history, a growing number of firefighters reportedly weren’t born before Sept. 11, 2001.
At the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation’s annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at the Rio shopping mall in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Chief Craig Lazar, of the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department, said the dreadful day in 2001 is always w