[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9178]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           THE WORST DAY EVER FOR THE HOUSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, every day that I leave home to fly here, I 
pass the Southwest Inn, the site of the worst day the Houston Fire 
Department has ever had. One year ago this Saturday, four brave 
firefighters were killed when the inn's roof collapsed upon them 
without warning.
  Matthew Renaud, Robert Garner, Robert Bebee, and Anne Sullivan all 
lost their lives on that day. They never came back to their stations.
  Anne's mother, Mary, works at the middle school that both my kids 
have attended. We shared tears over Anne's loss at a local restaurant. 
I know the pain of losing her Anne will never leave my friend. But I 
hope she remembers what her father told her sister from Heaven on that 
day. Her father said: ``It is okay. I have got her. It is okay. I have 
got her.'' And He has them all.

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