Buckhead Business Association Honors Firefighters for Sept. 11 Ride

received quarterly public safety awards from the Buckhead Business Association Thursday.

The three firefighters from completed a 1,305-mile, 16-day trip from Atlanta to New York City for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

BBA Public Safety Vice President Mark Shaver noted that the traveled on an up and down route through the Blue Ridge Mountains, the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest two times.

Also honored were police officer Craig Heflin, who rescued two Fort Benning rangers from a burning truck on Peachtree Road, and Fulton County Sheriff's Department dentention officer Coretta Floyd, who saved a 3-year-old child from choking an a piece of candy. Heflin didn't attend the BBA's quarterly business luncheon because of continued Occupy Atlanta duty.

House Minority leader Stacey Abrams of the 84th District addressed the group on a variety of state issues, stressing the Decmoratic minority's efforts to collaborate with the majority Republicans on key issues and its need to remain strongly competitive withe the GOP in offering policy ideas.