The agony that binds them
When the call went out, none of the Warwick volunteers could have imagined what they’d find.
WARWICK, Mass. — After the bodies had been carried from the debris and the hoses folded back onto the fire engines, volunteer Fire Lieutenant Bill Lyman would agonize over every minute, reliving as much as remembering.
What if he had put on his bunker gear before he got to the scene, not after? What if, right before the Warwick volunteer fire department arrived on Richmond Road, there had still been a way inside, before the flames closed in? What if the 911 call had come in just a little earlier?
Could they have saved them?
Another, more terrible question tore at him.
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