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Firefighters group attacks Giuliani Joelle Farrell A group of New York City firefighters and their families traveled to New Hampshire yesterday to try to collapse the image of "America's Mayor" heroically leading New York City in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The group, 9/11 Firefighters and Families, contends that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani made poor decisions before the day of the attack that left firefighters ill-prepared to respond when two planes hit the World Trade Center. They fault him for the deaths of their firefighter colleagues and sons, who perished when the towers collapsed. "There were needless people that died that day," said Jim Riches, deputy chief of the New York City Fire Department, whose son died in the attacks. "And to see this man turn around now and say he did a great job preparing us and having leadership that day? It was lacking, and there was none. . . . Now he's trying to parlay it into the presidency of the United States. . . . He did nothing, and it doesn't qualify him to be president of the United States."
(Article continues below) Five members of the group met with the Monitor yesterday morning before holding a town hall style meeting at Dartmouth College in the evening. This isn't the first time New York City firefighters have publicly criticized Giuliani since he started campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. The International Association of Fire Fighters, a union that represents 281,000 firefighters, produced a 13-minute video last summer that blamed Giuliani for the deaths of 121 firefighters killed when the North Tower collapsed. The IAFF says Giuliani knew the department was using faulty radios and says the firefighters died because they could not receive evacuation orders before the tower collapsed.
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