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On September 11, 2001, while millions of people watched the collapse of the Twin Towers on television, Steve Buscemi returned to his old firehouse and asked if he could help.
Long before becoming a world-famous actor, Buscemi had actually been a New York City firefighter. He had passed the entrance exam at 18 and worked for four years at Engine Company 55 in Little Italy before leaving the department to pursue acting.
But he had never forgotten that job.
After the attacks on the World Trade Center, he did not call agents or publicists. He did not seek cameras or attention. He simply went back to his former colleagues.
On September 12, he arrived at Ground Zero and made himself available to his old crew. In the days that followed, he worked like one of the many firefighters involved in the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero.
He worked exhausting twelve-hour shifts among twisted steel, dust, and debris, helping with search and recovery operations.
He did not want the press to talk about him.
For that reason, there are very few images of those days. Some photographs show him covered in dust, wearing a firefighter’s helmet, his face marked by exhaustion. These were not staged poses for the media. They were real moments of a man working alongside others.
Years later, Buscemi said that returning to firefighting during those days helped him cope with the trauma.
He explained that, while working, he could at least stop thinking constantly about what was happening around him.
But the emotional weight remained.
Over time, he spoke openly about depression and post-traumatic stress disorder he developed after experiencing Ground Zero firsthand. He said that sometimes simply being reminded of those days was enough to make him feel as if he were back there again.
Buscemi sought help through therapy and began publicly advocating for the importance of mental health, especially for first responders and firefighters.
In the years that followed, he remained close to the New York Fire Department, also working with organizations that raise funds for psychological support for responders affected by the aftermath of 9/11.
Many surviving firefighters have, in fact, died in later years from illnesses linked to substances inhaled in the rubble.
Steve Buscemi could have stayed away from it all, protected by his fame and his new life in Hollywood.
Instead, he chose to return to where it all began.
Not as an actor.
As a firefighter.