Tampa Police Headquarters & Museum, 411 N. Franklin St

Detective Batista
Lieutenant Pennington
PIO Katie Hughes

I made it to downtown Tampa just prior to lunch hour. I had arrangements to set up outside in front of the Police Headquarters & Museum. It is located adjacent to a very busy common area in which people come to gather on there lunch break. Many people could see me setting up from their office windows, and came down specifically for the opportunity to sign the banner. It also helped that the weather was really nice that day. I stayed there for most of the afternoon enjoying conversation with the occasional passer by, and visiting tourist.

WTSP/TV10, Tom Walters and Liz Madonna, Reporters

The Tampa Tribune, Kathy Moore-Lengell, Photojournalist

Tampa FD Headquarters Station 1, 808 Zack St

Hector Noyas Jr, Fire Investigator

Afterwards, I learned that there was a very large FD just on the other side of town, so I stopped there before continuing on to Orlando for the night. I was greeted with much respect, and invited to bring the project upstairs to there conference room. It was near dinner time, and a call went out over the P.A. for all to participate in signing the banner. I spoke with several firefighters in detail about there experience going to NYC. They voluntarily contacted the Orlando FD, to tell them more about me, and to see what they could arrange in short notice to present the banner. I was becoming to understand how close the brotherhood of firefighters is.