Tragedy in Quincy
On October 18, a Traffic and Parking Department employee in Quincy was killed when he was repairing a traffic light on Route 3A in the Quincy Point neighborhood. A tractor trailer truck struck the bucket in which Robert DeCristofaro of Braintree was standing, knocking him some 20 feet to the ground. Mayor Thomas Koch called his death "a tremendous loss for the city.”
Miracle in Boston
Only two days before the tragedy in Quincy, another public employee made a miraculous rescue of a child in a multiple alarm fire in Bosston's Roxbury neighborhood. As a woman held her six-year-old grandson out of the window of the 20-unit building, Boston Fire Department Lt. Glenn McGillivray positioned himself under the window and urged the woman to let the boy go. McGillivray caught the child, kissed him on the forehead (a moment you can see in the news coverage of the story), and handed him to another firefighter. “(It was) the first time I’ve ever had to make a rescue like that and I hope it’s the last time I have to make a rescue like that,” McGillivray told local media.
