Cincinnati Welcomes American Hero and New York Times Best Selling Author

Dec. 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Media contact: Eric Scherpenberg

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“ACI and Dugan&Meyers Construction Company Welcome American Hero and New York Times Best Selling Author Richard Picciotto to Cincinnati”

15^th Annual ACI and OSHA Safety Day Conference at Sharonville Convention Center on February 18^th 2014

Cincinnati, OH, – Allied Construction Industries in Partnership with OSHA, ASSE, and the University of Cincinnati are proud to announce Chief Richard Picciotto FDNY-ret. as our keynote speaker for ACI/OSHA’s 15^th Annual Safety Day Conference.

Location: The 2014 ACI/OSHA Safety Day will be held at The Sharonville Convention Center on February 18^th 2014 from 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM. This event will feature dynamic safety training from noted experts and include approximately 50 nationally recognized vendors exhibiting the latest in workplace safety equipment and technology.

For more information, please visit us at:

http://www.aci-construction.org/safetyday.htm

About Richard Picciotto

The highest-ranking firefighter to survive the World Trade Center collapse, and the last fireman to escape the devastation, Richard "Pitch" Picciotto was on a stairwell between the sixth and seventh floors of the North Tower when it collapsed on September 11, 2001. An FDNY battalion commander, this is the harrowing true story of an American hero, a man who thought nothing of himself and gave nearly everything for others during one of our nation's darkest hours. Already a veteran of terrorist attacks, Picciotto was present fighting a similar battle after the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993. Again inside the North Tower, where he found himself years earlier, burdened by an eerie sense of familiarity, he focused his concentration on the rescue efforts at hand. But it was there in the smoky stairwells that he heard and felt the South Tower collapse. He then made the call for firemen and rescue workers to evacuate, while he stayed behind with a skeleton team of men to assist a group of disabled and infirm civilians in their struggle to evacuate the inferno. And it was there in the rubble of the North Tower that Picciotto found himself buried for more than four hours after the building's collapse.

A meet and greet along with book signing will be held after the keynote speech.