I got a note on Christmas day from the daughter/sister of the man and woman who are fighting for their lives at Cornell Hospital after Wednesday morning's fire in a Third Street condo in Park Slope. She had just landed in New York rushing back from a holiday vacation to be in the hospital with her father and sister, who are still in critical condition.

So here goes a big thanks from the family and the whole neighborhood to the firefighters from Ladder
Co. 105, Ladder Co. 122 and Squad 1 who responded to the 2:47 a.m. blaze that
occurred on the top floor of the four-story building. Many EMTs were also on hand.