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TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Four Harrison volunteer firefighters were properly equipped, trained and working by the book when they responded to a fire at a Brackenridge business 30 years ago this year. Despite all those things and valiant efforts to save them, Hilltop Hose Lt. Rick Frantz, Chaplain Frank Veri Jr. and firefighters David Emanuelson and Michael Celicki Burns did not go home from the call at West Interior Services that cold December morning in 1991. “Those guys were just doing their job. They didn’t do anything wrong. They were volunteers,” said Gordon Routley, author of the U.S. Fire Administration report on the incident. “They all lived close enough to the firehouse at Hilltop that they all ran to the firehouse to answer the call. They did their thing and what’s expected of them.” ....