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Sep 10, 2023 · By Austin Harvey | Edited By John Kuroski. Published September 10, 2023. Updated September 11, 2023. Before he became a famous actor, Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in Manhattan, and he donned his old gear on September 12, 2001 to help emergency responders dig through the rubble of the Twin Towers. Facebook/Friends of Firefighters, Inc.
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Jun 15, 2020 · Buscemi was a working firefighter for four years in New York. Like a lot of actors, Buscemi had a day job back when he first took aim at the theater. Unlike a lot of actors — who worked as waiters, bartenders, and so on — Buscemi had qualified as a New York City fireman.
Buscemi was a firefighter from 1980 to 1984, with the New York City Fire Department's Engine Company No. 55, in Little Italy, Manhattan, while secretly taking acting classes and dabbling in stand-up on the side.
Sep 3, 2013 · The day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Steve Buscemi, who worked as a firefighter from 1980-1984, showed up at his old fire station, Engine Company No. 55 in the Little Italy section...
Sep 11, 2023 · Buscemi, now 65, had taken the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) civil service test when he was 18 and used to work as a FDNY firefighter in downtown Manhattan in the 1980s. He...
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Sep 9, 2021 · Actor and former firefighter Steve Buscemi discusses the enduring physical and mental toll of 9/11 on first responders 20 years later.
Mar 23, 2024 · But none of that mattered when the 9/11 attacks took place, plunging New York into a national tragedy. At eighteen years old, Buscemi took the Fire Department of the City of New York Civil Service Test, and spent the ’80s working as a firefighter in Manhattan station, Engine Co. 55.