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June 21, 2005

FDNY Survivor is Back Home

 
Kerry Burke, NYDailyNews.com (link in title)

"A firefighter who jumped four stories to escape a January blaze in the Bronx went home for the first time yesterday - celebrating Father's Day before heading back to the rehab center.
Eugene Stolowski, 33, left his New Jersey hospital bed at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange to spend the day with his wife, toddler daughter and newborn twin girls.

"It was very uplifting to see our 2-year-old run to him," his wife, Brigid, said from their Orange County, N.Y., home. "It was wonderful to have him home with all our girls, if only for a little while."

Stolowski, of Ladder 27, was one of six firefighters forced to jump from the top floor to escape a Bronx inferno on Jan. 23. Lt. Curtis Meyran and Lt. John Bellew died in the plunge.

"He's got a long way to go," his wife said after the visit. "He has more surgeries, but he's pushing hard at rehabilitation every day."

She said she considers even a brief visit home a miracle.

"The doctors said he had only a 5% chance of living," she said. "Then the other surgery was supposed to leave him a paraplegic. To have him here and recovering reaffirms my faith in prayer."



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