[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 95 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IN MEMORY OF FIREFIGHTER MICHAEL SEQUIN

  (Mr. QUINN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUINN. Mr. Speaker, last Friday while most of western New York 
State and Buffalo, NY, and indeed across the country were enjoying 
Independence Day festivities, a 33-year-old Buffalo firefighter, 
Michael Sequin, reported to duty at engine 33. Unfortunately, 
firefighter Michael Sequin died at the scene of a house fire that 
evening believed to be started by illegal fireworks.
  Mr. Speaker, at services today firefighter Sequin was referred to by 
Captain Scott Barry this way: ``If you had a kid and you wanted him to 
grow up to be a person everybody loved and respected, it would be Mike 
Sequin.''
  Firefighter Sequin's tragic death serves as a reminder to all of us 
of the dangerous risk firefighters, police officers, and all public 
safety officers face every day. I ask all the Members of the House to 
join me, the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Pappas] and the gentleman 
from New York [Mr. LaFalce] in sending our condolences, sympathies, and 
grateful thanks to firefighter Sequin's family, friends, and fellow 
fire fighters in western New York and all across the country.

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