Game 1 of the 2001 World Series – two Phoenix firefighters responded to Chase Field.
"If I remember right, we were managing a car accident at the time and our battalion chief came and asked if we wanted to participate in the World Series," Troy Caskey said.
"They didn't give us a lot of details at the time, but a little bit later on he explained that we were going to raise a flag in honor of the people who lost their lives in the events of September 11," Capt. Tom McCracken said. "They built a prop that the image was when the New York firefighters were trying to dig in the rubble, and they tried to raise that flag in the whole traumatic experience," Caskey said."Baseball essentially brought the entire nation together, and I've never felt more patriotic and togetherness than that time," Caskey said."I am not going to lie – we were nervous because we were at the World Series," he said.
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