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‘Such a Wonderful Gift’: New Canaan Fire Commissioner’s First Grandchild Enters World with Assist from FDNY

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Dedication to the fire service runs deep in Katie Turkington’s family. Her father, Jack Horner, has served on the New Canaan Fire Commission for a dozen years, including as chairman. Two men on her mother’s side—great-great-grandfather, William Bockage, and great-great-uncle, Fred Bunker—had served in the Cincinnati Fire Department, the latter as chief. Both died fighting fires in the late-1800s. Her husband Eric’s grandfather, William Turkington, served as a firefighter in British Columbia.

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‘These Gentlemen Saved My Life’: Eight New Canaan Firefighters Honored for Oct. 30 Heroics

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Michael Bivona, Jr. had been on his way to visit an uncle in Wilton on Oct. 30, when at about 5:35 p.m. he was struck head-on on Silvermine Road. The 18-year-old remembers nothing of the horrific four-car crash, knowing only that he would have died had it not been for a difficult, careful extrication led by eight New Canaan firefighters. Until Tuesday night, he’d never met them. “It’s a miracle that I am here and I can’t thank them enough,” Bivona, Jr. said during a moving ceremony at Lapham Community Center attended by about 100 people, where the firefighters received a unit citation for their life-saving actions.