BRISTOL — When Bristol Fire Department recruits Anthony Bentivengo and Jordan Terrier were talking earlier this week, they learned of startlingly similar tragedies that ultimately strengthened their resolve to join the city’s fire service.
Terrier was just 10 when his brother, James, a Thomaston firefighter, was killed in a motorcycle crash in 2006.
Bentivengo was 15 when his brother, James, an EMT planning a career with Bristol’s fire department, died in a car accident that same year.
“We both found this out Tuesday. We were talking with the mayor, she said we’d both lost brothers — we just looked at each other in awe,” Terrier said.