The Gary Box final photograph almost never came to light. For eight years, the family of FDNY firefighter Gary R. Box did not know that this last image of him existed.<\/p>\n
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Box and his fellow firefighters from Brooklyn\u2019s Squad 1 responded to the attack on the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n
Traffic inside the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel prevented larger emergency vehicles from moving forward, so the firefighters collected their equipment and continued toward Manhattan on foot.<\/p>\n
Among the people trapped inside the tunnel was Danish businessman Erik Troelson. He had entered before the first plane struck and initially did not understand what was happening. When firefighters began passing the stopped vehicles, Troelson raised his camera and took a photograph.<\/p>\n
One of those firefighters was Gary Box.<\/p>\n