Two Boston Firefighters Killed

by Mike Hall, Aug 30, 2007

Paul Cahill
Warren Payne

Two Boston firefighters were killed last night at a restaurant fire when they were trapped inside the burning building after a three-ton air condition fell through the roof. Twelve more firefighters were injured.

Both men were 25-year veterans of the department and members of  Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 718. They are Paul Cahill, 55, of Engine Co. 30 and Warren Payne, 53 of Ladder Co. 25.

Ed Kelly, president of IAFF 718, told the Boston Globe:

We lost two brothers, two brave men who went to work tonight to provide for their families and are not going home.

IAFF President Harold Schaitberger called their deaths “a terrible, terrible tragedy.”

The cause of the fire is under investigation.  The Boston deaths came less than two weeks after two fire fighters were killed in New York near Ground Zero.

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