Orio's Motto:
"Live while you're alive."
Links on the Web for Orio Palmer:
- To Orio . . . from his daughter
Dana:
http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/usa/heroes/orio1.html - To Orio . . . from his son Keith:
http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/USA/heroes/keith.html - To Orio . . . from his daughter
Alyssa:
http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/USA/heroes/aly.html
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This
link of audio captures what Orio was doing up until his
last moment before the South Tower collapsed. He gets a
working elevator to about the 40th floor and climbs to
the 78th floor (floor of the plane impact) via an open
stairwell with all his fire gear. He was putting out
fires along the way while trying to save others. We saw
him in the French Documentary and he had his oxygen tank
on his back with his firefighting gear when he was
instructed to go up in the South Tower.
Mary (Orio's
sister)
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- http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/USA/heroes/orio2.html
- http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/USA/heroes/orio.html
- http://www.geocities.com/ladder12fdny/Orio_Palmer.htm
- http://www.bravestmemorial.com/html/members_individual/palmer_orio/palmer_newsday_article.html
- http://www.geocities.com/ladder12fdny/Orio_his_brave_voice.htm
- http://www.bravestmemorial.com/html/members/palmer_orio_bc_bat007.html
- http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/memorial/wtc/palmer_orio_bc_bat007.html
- http://www.bxtimes.com/news/2002/1121/Boroughwide_News/023.html
- http://www.ladder12fdny.com/Orio_Street_naming.htm
- http://www.ladder12fdny.com/Palmer_BronxTimes_92002.htm
- http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/7869
Battalion Chief Orio J. Palmer
“The 45-year-old Palmer was one of the departments rising stars, renowned for his smarts and nerve and decency, as well as his physical fitness. He was also among the most knowledgeable about communication. Palmer died a rising star and an uncommonly brave fire chief.”
New York Daily News
August 10, 2002
Retrieved from: http://nydailynews.com
At breakfast time at his home in Valley Stream,
Orio Palmer would pop in a Rascals CD, and dance around the kitchen singing
"It's a Beautiful Morning."
The kids laughed, and called him the Music Man.
"Orio's passion for his family outweighed everything else in his life. Anything he did in one form or another he did for his family. They were his world."
Lt. James McCaffrey FDNY