I've dealt with death a lot, but nothing like this.

We wrapped up about 10:30 last night what we consider to be our rescue effort.

At this time, we don't believe there are any [more] survivors at this point. We are going to continue this morning with our recovery operations.

We know there were some refrigerant lines that were within the structure of the trailer itself. We suspect that a couple of explosions may have been by that.

Death is a part of every situation. This is just on a much larger level. Most guys from the New York Fire Department are feeling this just tremendous loss.

Dale's death accelerated a lot of the safety provisions we have today. Anytime you see your Superman, your hero, taken away I'm not saying that would have been the savior for Dale, but we know that it gives everyone a much better chance of surviving that type of situation. If that hadn't have happened, those things would probably come a lot slower. From such a horrific accident, we can look back and say that some good things did come from that.