Nicole Doherty remembers the first words her father said to her after responding to the September 11th terror attacks.

"The first thing he said to me is, 'I'm sorry, I can't come home until I find all my friends,'" said Doherty whose father, Chief Nicholas Visconti, was on his way to work in Queens the morning of 9/11.

She said that when he heard the news on the radio, he immediately drove to Lower Manhattan. Fellow FDNY members told Doherty her father saved their lives.

"He was the best and he loved our family so much, but the firemen were his second love and extended family and every single one of them were the best to him too," said Doherty.

Nicholas Visconti was among the 39 new names added to the FDNY World Trade Center Memorial Wall this year.

The Fire Department held a special

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