Thomas HetzelE 83rd St between 3rd Ave and Lexington AveHeart Three · Location 303 · Drawn June 2003Hover over or select the image to reveal a hidden view.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Video podcast0:00A green door on East 83rd Street between 3rd Avenue and Lexington.0:05The location for this drawing.0:07This green door is on the south side of the street and it's the back service door for 170 East 83rd Street.0:14It's to the right of a companion garage door labeled garage.0:19That door has become a green brethren sometime in the last three years.0:23The green door we drew on, flower bed and bush, to its left and to its right, a waist-high, pointy, black metal fence.0:33This is Thomas Hetzel. He was drawn in June of 2003.0:39His drawing is counting ten people.0:44There are some awful websites out there related to the events on September 11th.0:49It's hard to even know where to begin.0:51First off, we want to give our regards to all the personal tributes, homespun webpages, poetry, songs, and documentation of related projects that we have found on the web.1:02But, we feel deep reservation for all the automated sites, listing dozens to hundreds of wrong names.1:09For right now, we cannot tackle this subject matter.1:13It just pushes our buttons that there is not a single definitive website out there dedicated to all who were lost that is current, updated, looked after, or cared about.1:24The mistakes on CNN, USA Today, Boston Globe, and so, so many more sites have been a constant source of frustration for us.1:32It should be noted that we have called them all to discuss their discrepancies and never received an explanation from any of them.1:38We have cross-referenced and cross-referenced and are as confident as we can be that we are drawing and counting the right people.1:45Silent plea to all professional news organizations, do everything in your power to have accurate, consistent, and recent information on your webpages.1:54To all automated memorial sites, do what you can to remove the names of people who don't even exist or who were confirmed to not have ever passed away that day.2:05Thomas Hetzel, 33, was attached to Ladder Company 13 on the Upper East Side and is believed to have2:12been rescuing victims at 2 World Trade Center when it collapsed. He wanted to be a firefighter2:18since he was five, said his sister. She recalled that as a youngster, he once painted his bicycle2:23red to emulate a fire engine.← Location 302Heart Three · Location 303Location 304 →
