On the morning of September 11, 2001, Aaron McLamb, a 20-year-old volunteer at the Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn, took a photograph that would become one of the most poignant images of the day. While working at a bookbinding machine, he spotted a large fire in the north tower of the World Trade Center across the East River. Grabbing his 35 mm Canon Rebel 2000 camera, he climbed to the top floor of the 10-story building and began taking photos until he ran out of film. One of these images captured a lone fire truck, Ladder 118, speeding across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning towers. Ladder 118 was based at the Middagh Street firehouse in Brooklyn Heights and was crewed by Joseph Agnello, Vernon Cherry, Scott Davidson, Leon Smith, Peter Vega, and Lt. Robert Egan. Two other firefighters from the same firehouse, Capt. Martin Egan and Lt. Robert Wallace, also died that day but were not on Ladder 118. They were among the 343 fire department personnel who lost their lives on 9/11, along with 37 Port Authority police officers, 23 city police officers, and eight paramedics and EMTs. McLamb had been intentionally photographing fire trucks that morning, as he had always dreamed of becoming a firefighter. He watched the Ladder 118 truck travel "right underneath us on Prospect Street and circled our building, and then got up on the Brooklyn Bridge." He said he waited for the truck to get into position for the photo. After the firefighters arrived at the World Trade Center, they were helping others escape from the Marriott Hotel when the south tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m., burying them under thousands of tons of rubble. The collapse created a "huge dust cloud," and McLamb and other workers were asked to close all the windows in the building, stopping any further photography. His final images were of the dust cloud from the first tower falling. McLamb recalled walking through "at least an inch or two of dust on the ground" and "watching my feet kick up all this dust." He noted that there were papers everywhere, some burned, some not, and some just fine. He wished he had picked up some of the papers to see if he could find names of the people or their families. After developing his film, word spread through the neighborhood that none of the Ladder 118 truck crew had "come home." McLamb decided to bring his negatives and some prints to the firehouse, where the firefighters were initially "kinda incredulous" until he explained how he had watched the truck leave the station before taking the photo. Once they realized he had captured the image, they used a magnifying glass to confirm it. Retired Ladder 118 firefighter John Sorrentino said the truck is one of only a handful of tiller-style models in the city and that crew members had mounted an exterior box on the truck's right side. Sorrentino, who was off-duty on September 11 but raced to the scene to help out, said he remains haunted by the sound of alarms worn by the hundreds of firefighters who were buried under the rubble. Less than a month after the attacks, McLamb's photo appeared on the front page of New York's Daily News under the headline, "The last run of Ladder 118." After 25 years, McLamb said he is grateful he could document the doomed crew's heroism.