'Black Sunday' FDNY Widow Files Suit

September 29, 2005 -- A firefighter widow charges that the FDNY's failure to issue her husband a rope led to his death in a fire earlier this year.

"I'm angry. A lousy piece of rope could've brought him down 10 feet to the next window," a tearful Jeanette Meyran said.

Her lawyer, Donnalynn Darling, held a rope outside Bronx Supreme Court, where they announced the filing of a civil lawsuit against the city and the Bronx building's landlord.

Lt. Curtis Meyran, 46, of Battalion 26, died along with firefighter John Bellew, 37, of Ladder 27, on "Black Sunday"