A bride’s emotional TikTok video has gone viral, showing how members of her late father’s fire station stepped in to represent him at her wedding nearly 24 years after his death on Sept. 11, 2001.
Kristin Schnacky was just three years old when her father Kenneth Marino, of FDNY Rescue 1, died in the collapse of the Twin Towers, Parade reports.
The video begins with Schnacky in her wedding dress walking through an ornate wooden door held open by a white-gloved doorman.
“My dad couldn’t show up to my wedding because he was taken from us on September 11th, so look who did,” she wrote over the clip.
As she descended the red-carpeted steps, she was greeted by a line of firefighters standing at attention in front of their truck.
The bride explained that both current and retired firefigh