Steven Shapiro; phony 9/11 firefighter
One of our ninjas send us a link to the story of Steven Shapiro who has been pretending to be one of the first firefighters on the scene of the 9/11 attacks on New York City;
In his biography, he claims his fire department was ‘the first rescue squad on scene from Connecticut on that horrific morning’, and said he and his colleagues were on ‘the pile’ for more than two weeks.
Shapiro claimed to other first responders of the terror attacks and online that he was there in his role as Lieutenant for the Fairfield fire department (pictured is a hat he claimed was part of his uniform) – but the department can find no record of him ever working there
+3Shapiro claimed to other first responders of the terror attacks and online that he was there in his role as Lieutenant for the Fairfield fire department (pictured is a hat he claimed was part of his uniform) – but the department can find no record of him ever working there
‘After passing the psych evaluation, I was off to the races drinking myself into oblivion.
‘In November of 2002, I retired after driving an engine full of water to a fire (alone and drunk) and almost tipping it over on a carload of children.
‘For a long time, I suffered from post traumatic stress and trauma from 9/11 and all the sights and sounds that we all go through in our profession.’
Shapiro said while he’s now sober, he can still hear the sounds of PASS alarms going off – but has the tools to deal with the trauma.
Prince, who was a volunteer fire chief at Brookhaven Fire Department until 2007, says he and his fellow first responders are enraged by Shapiro’s behavior.
Shapiro did a pisspoor job of tracking actual history and uniforms;
Shaprio told people he worked for the Fairfield fire department in Connecticut, but the department Deputy Chief, Kyran Dunn, said he had no record of Shapiro’s employment.
Photographs on Shapiro’s social media accounts are also fakes, Mr Dunn said, claiming the department’s hats are a different color and do not show ranks.
Furthermore, Dunn said his department was not at Ground Zero on 9/11. Fairfield was only called in to help in the days after the terror attack.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
From the link Jonn provided:
Stolen Valor, the cherry on top of the shit sundae.
Was he in the physical rehab center trying to get his foot out of his mouth or from up his ass? Dufus MOFO.
That’s “rancid cherry”…..
What a shitbag.
Word.
I think he watched too many episodes of “rescue me”.
He should go hang out with that asshole Cullen from the Boston Glob (yeah, I spelled it wrong on purpose, it’s not even fit to line the bottom of a bird cage), they can hoist a few with Brian Williams and misremember a whole book of BS fairy tales. Having done the fire academy (full disclosure, was appointed to the department, completed the academy, never worked a shift went to Fallujah instead and came home broken) this wannabe should be geared up and dragged into the flashover trainer and let his stoopid ass see how much fun it is to be on the job. He’s not fit to clean the toilets in the quarters of those companies who lost Brothers on 9/11. Can I nominate this douche for the Mountain of Insults for FF Gerard Dewan of FDNY 3 Truck Last Alarm 9/11/2001? He comes from a long line of firefighters, his nephew is a personal friend of mine and on the job in Baltimore City (also a Truckie).
Bake his fat ass in the flashover chamber, black out his mask and run him through the rat maze, then send him out west on a nice hot day, where we’ll put 70 pounds on his back and hike his ass for a mile or ten.
Then we can have us a good ol’-fashioned asskicking party. Or a hanging. I’d be okay with either/or.
Amen, Brother. Bake until nice ‘n toasty and that helmet is well and truly scorched followed a nice “friendly” slap on the back immediately after leaving the flashover trainer, too. This guy pissed me off and I never got to work a shift. I can only imagine how pissed the guys who lost Brothers would be. Never occured to me to put on my stuff and play dress up, I turned it all back in. Broke my heart when the doctor said he couldn’t clear me, but I would have been a liability in a fire. The town found me something else. This turd needs a brisk morning drag around Ground Zero and Mann Gulch.
That structure helmet is way too shiny to have seen much use. I’m surprised he didn’t stick in the stove a few times before taking the picture. There are some idiots who think a filthy helmet is “cool” somehow (which is beyond retarded for a long list of reasons), but all PPE—including—helmets, should always be kept clean. Still, any helmet that sees real use will show it: scratches, pitting, fading, etc. That helmet of his looks like it just came out of the box. His shield is also shiny-new, though that’s a replaceable component.
Bottom line: Steven Shapiro is obviously a lying sack of roach shit. He’d best be careful, too, as Connecticut ain’t far from New York, and those FDNY and NYPD guys don’t take kindly to anyone disrespecting the 343 firemen and 60 cops who died on 9/11.
Plus, post-traumatic stress, depression, suicide, and related alcohol/substance abuse among firefighters is a significant and tragic problem. Though I don’t drink and have never took drugs, I’ve spent quite a few nights at home over the years staring at the wrong end of my .45 and seriously considering it (I very literally owe my life to my wife, who got me out of that, though from time to time the proverbial demon still tries to crawl back out). A guy I used to work with took his own life this past fall, leaving behind a little boy who won’t know his father growing up. Anyone trying to cash in on that is beneath contempt. So fuck Steven Shapiro straight to Hell.
TOW, Fire Engineering mag. which I subscribe to is very very serious with articles about the PPE “BADGE OF HONOR” wearing your soot stained gear and not keeping it clean. Long Beach FD where I am a life member (25 years) put in washing machines a few years ago before I left. Seems like these carcigens can penetrate the bunker gear material so some of the clothing companies are designing better bunker gear. Plaster lath construction no problem years ago but with the new toothpick and toxic plastic construction, moocho problems. High rates of cancer among Firefighters down here in South Florida.
Wearing a bunch of carcinogens on your head is indeed insanely stupid.
There’s also the fact that anyone who thinks the dirty helmet is cool doesn’t know the first thing about basic fire chemistry: soot is the unburned fuel left over from incomplete combustion, and is easily ignitable. You might as well soak your head in lighter fluid as wear a soot-caked helmet to a fire. Never mind that that soot might also contain corrosive chemicals that eat plastic/leather, especially with modern lightweight building construction and all the crap that goes into it.
Maybe it’s an east coast/west coast thing, maybe not, I dunno, but I was always taught that the guy with the fucked-off helmet is not the badass hard-charging smoke eater, but rather the Ricky-Rescue dickhead who can’t even be trusted to maintain his own gear. Guys in my department who try to pull that shit (which is rare) get stomped in a hurry. Of course, that’s just my outfit. Can’t speak for the rest of the state.
TOW, probably a bit of an East / West thing, but much more of a generational / time frame thing. When i started (in 1986, yeah, getting old…), it was very common to have dirty helmets (then again, we didn’t wear gloves on medical calls back then either).. Knowledge has come a long way, and while I’d disagree with your assessment if applied to folks back then, in todays world, with the info we have now, I agree 100%
And of course, this shitbag is scum that deserves the worst that can be dished out by those who lost brothers and loved ones on 9/11
Kinda figured it was probably an east/west thing, because it’s the kind of thing San Francisco has been known for, and they have quite the reputation for being “the most progressive east coast fire department on the west coast.” But I didn’t want to cast too many aspersions.
I started volunteering in ‘99 and got hired in ‘02 (a month before I graduated high school, incidentally), and I can hardly believe what’s changed since then—and how much bullshit went unquestioned back then. “Heat acclimation” is a good example. They used to make us wear long sleeves and multiple layers to do pointless yard work (raking north-south over the east-west lines we raked the previous day) in 105-degree heat, allegedly to “acclimate,” then claimed it was our own fault when we went down with heat exhaustion on the fireline. Thanks to cumulative effects of over the last 17 years, I’m now highly-susceptible to heat emergencies. Nowadays, I have my guys and girls do outdoor training and any ass&elbows work that needs doing in the cool of the morning, and get them back into the A/C by lunchtime to keep them fire-ready. I also keep a copy of the Army Medical Corps’s report debunking the heat acclimation risk in my office, just in case I have to deal with a few asshole chiefs who still push that myth. My crew will work a lot better for a lot longer when they’re not already dehydrated from the get-go.
9/11, same here RetiredDevilDoc.
RIP Capt. Terry Hatton, Rescue 1 FDNY & former member of Ladder 2, Long Beach NY Volunteer Fire Dept.
RIP Kenny Marino, Rescue 1 FDNY & former member of engine 2, Long Beach NY Volunteer Fire Dept.
RIP Joey Trombino, Brink’s Inc. fellow worker. I was on Ladder 2 with Terry when I broke my heel and Kenny was in the west end Station 2.
I worked with FF Dewan’s nephew on the EMS side of the house at AMR and on Douglas FD (EMS only for me at the time) before I moved and got appointed in my new town. That’s part of why this ass clown’s BS really bugs the crap out of me. He needs a whoopin’.
This guy, is just a full blown piece of shit.
You’re being too kind comparing him to a POS. Shit could be useful. This ass clown needs to be apologizing to the trees and plants for making them work overtime by stealing all that oxygen they’re producing for him.
I say handcuff that sperm belching moldy fuck muffin to a streetlight pole in downtown Kandahar on a Thursday night with his pants down around his ankles.
Lying sack of shit scam artist.
Shapiro will now claim that he is a secret squirrel top secret firefighter so there are no public records of him, and that his personnel records are kept in a top secret vault at the FEMA operations center deep in the underground cavern in Pennsylvania…
Better yet, he’ll just claim his files “got burnt in the fire”…
This sorry excuse for a humanoid ranks right up there with those who falsely claim MOH and Purple Heart honors. Lowest of the low. Can’t get any more dishonorable. Beneath contemptible.
There are no words to describe just how disgusting his lies are. And he knows it and lies anyway.
Lord, help us both should we find ourselves in proximity.
Shitheaded candyasses like him make me solidly in favor of bringing back the use of pillories and horsewhipping.
he looks like your combo plan, garden variety town drunkard and village idiot.
I myself am not a fire fighter, but my Dad was as were all my dad’s 5 brothers in the town in NJ I grew up in,1 was assistant chief and 2 were captains, many of my younger cousins also joined, one is now the current chief there…I grew up in the late 50’s thru mid 60’s in a fire house, going to fires with my dad and eating donuts and drinking tea(I didn’t like coffee then) from the snack wagon. In my youth the town I grew up in had a lot of fields(not any more, all houses now) so it was mostly field fires. with a minor house fire a few times a month and 1 major house fire or an industrial fire once a year .
What I’m getting at is this anal sphincter fudge depositor shouldn’t fantasize out loud nor on the internet, he should just babble it to the empty bar stool next to him only, the stool might believe him
Asshole