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Mazza, Kathy: Two years before Kathy Mazza charged into Tower One as part of Sept. 11th's rescue effort, she stood in the Oval Room on the 43rd floor, being honored as New York City's Basic Life Support Provider of the Year. "She was the person that breathed life into the Port Authority training program," said Marie Diglio, the New York City Emergency Medical Services Council's executive director of operations. "She ... made it something real." In 1992, Kathy underwent open-heart surgery to correct a quarter-sized hole. Exactly one year later, she was credited with saving her mother, who was complaining of chest pains. "She saved my life," her mother said. "If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here today." "At least 14 New Yorkers can make the same claim. Kathy's 1997 initiative to train some 600 officers to use defibrillators in airports is credited with saving 14 to 16 lives, according to Port Authority estimates.
Kathy, 46, a captain, was the first female commanding officer of the Port Authority police academy. "She's a woman in a man's world," Diglio said. "And she was tough as nails. She had to be so hard on the exterior. There was a suit of armor around her, because there had to be. But when you got to know her, she could be so funny, so lighthearted." The Farmingdale resident's ascension in the ranks began more than 14 years ago, when she was an operating room nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn. With a nursing degree from Nassau Community College and 10 years cardiothoracic nursing experience, she enrolled in the Port Authority police academy.
Kathy and Lt. Robert Cirri were last seen by Officer Eugene Fasano who was sent to retrieve Mazza's nursing kit for her. Cirri had just called his wife to say they were attempting to reroute victims who were unknowingly walking into a blaze. Prior to that, Kathy was seen shooting out some floor to ceiling windows that then allowed hundreds to escape the tower after being bottlenecked at a revolving door.
Besides her mother Rose, Kathy is survived by her husband who is a NYCPD officer. - Michael Thier Newsday.com [Ent.10/01] (Reference: (http://cf1.newsday.infi.net/911/victimsearch.cfm?id=1388)

Mullan, Michael, 34, was born in Flushing, New York/USA. He was on the 19th floor when they were ordered to evacuate, because "the building was starting to go," according to his mother, Theresa. Mullan and two other firefighters headed down but stopped at the third floor, where they heard a Mayday call from two firefighters higher up. "Michael said, 'I'll go get them,'" and that was the last anyone heard of him.
A registered nurse, Michael was working on his BSN at Hunter College and also worked in the Mercy Hospital emergency room on a per diem basis. [On the Sunday following the attack, an infant was dropped off at Mercy under the Safe Haven law. It was its first and was named after Michael and the security guard who received the infant.] He was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve and worked for Ladder 12, Engine Co. 3 in Chelsea. He was "just about" engaged to his girlfriend, his mother said. "There's an old Irish expression: May you live every day of your life. Michael lived every day of his life." An avid Yankees fan, "he took it as a personal insult if they lost. He loved plays and concerts, and, oh, when he played the piano, you could not tell the difference between Michael Mullan and Jerry Lee Lewis. .. And he loved Elvis! He kept saying to me, 'Mom, you must have had a great time in the '50s.' And let me tell you, he was full of devilment and merriment and mischief." After the attack she visited his grammar school to ask for the children's prayers. "And when I walked into the principal's office, I said, 'Do you know, this is the first time I have walked into this office that I did not get sent for?'" Devilment aside, Theresa Mullan said, "Michael always made you laugh." He is also survived by his father, Patrick; brother, Patrick, and sister, Kelly-Ann Mary. "And don't forget," his mother said, "It's 'Mullan' with an 'a.'" -Mary Voboril Newsday.com [Ent. 10/01] (http://cf1.newsday.infi.net/911/victimsearch.cfm?id=540)