Firehouse rebuilding project's completion celebrated in New Orleans

Gerry Crimmins, a stocky, bald-headed carpenter from New York City, has traveled to New Orleans 24 times since 2007.

It hasn't been to party or gamble, though. It has been to direct a massive carpentry mission that saw 200 skilled union volunteers from New York and Louisiana donate 8,000 hours to restoring half of the 22 firehouses the New Orleans Fire Department lost during the 2005 Katrina flood.

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