A few weeks ago, NY1 introduced viewers to the firefighter from the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department, who was injured while part of an ambulance rescue team on September 11, 2001.

Half of the city's 10 volunteer fire departments are in Queens and since September 11, these departments said they've been inundated with men and women wanting to become volunteer firefighters. NY1’s Ruschell West has more.

A raging brush fire swept through the marshlands at Gateway National Park on Cross Bay Boulevard Wednesday night, threatening homes in Broad Channel and service on the A Subway line, as well as birds and vegetation at the world-renowned Gateway Bird Sanctuary.

Even now, almost a week after that fateful Monday morning when American Airlines Flight 587 dropped into Belle Harbor streets, people still search the sky when they hear an aircraft above them.

For residents near the beaches of New York's borough of Queens, a chilly, quiet Veterans Day holiday gave way to a fresh taste of catastrophe Monday.

Activists in Broad Channel are selling patriotic T-Shirts to raise money for the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department to allow them to purchase a new ambulance to replace the one they lost under the rubble of the World Trade Center collapse.

I was home sleeping, when a message from the Broad Channel Volunteers came through that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I got up quickly and went to the firehouse.

A Diary of The World Trade Center Experience of Four Broad Channel Volies

Like many other volunteer ambulance corps in the tri-state area, the volunteers from the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department responded with an ambulance and an unidentified crew of first responders and emergency medical technicians to the World Trade Center disaster in Manhattan.

Members of the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department receive a blessing by their chaplain, Reverend Andrea Zarou.