With the anniversary of 9/11 approaching, local firefighters are remembering the fallen with their culinary skills. For firefighters, cooking is a huge part of the job.

“None of us are tiny, right?” joked Escondido Fire Captain Ken Slaven. “We haven’t missed many meals.”

There is quite a bit of pressure to cook enough and cook well.

“When new guys come in that’s one of the first things we ask them is, ‘What can you cook?’” said Engineer Micheal O’Connor.

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