CBS 2

The limp in firefighter Eugene Stokowski's walk only begins to tell the story of what he and the others went through that freezing cold, Sunday morning in the Bronx. A fire broke out where apartments had been illegally subdivided, with walls someone put up that were not supposed to be there, trapping six men.

Four were forced to jump from three stories up and another two from four stories up. The two who fell from the higher floors, Lt. Chris Meyran and firefighter John Bellew, were killed.

The Bronx district attorney indicted the company that owned the building and three individuals for manslaughter. But there has been no trial. The defendants keep getting delays. CBS 2's Pablo Guzman met with the firefighters as they left the Bronx courthouse Tuesday morning, after yet another postponement:

"The trial needs to happen. Four people are walking around out there that are charged in this, like nothing ever happened," Stolowski told CBS 2. "Two of our guys are not here anymore because of that."

Defense lawyers said the postponements are because one lawyer became seriously ill. The firemen say another lawyer should have stepped in. Firefighter Jeffrey Cool is one of the four who barely made it that day. Each suffered enormous head and body injuries:

"Evidence gets lost. You know, as time goes by, witnesses disappear," he said of the postponements. "You look at the widows, and they suffer pain, they're gonna suffer pain for the rest of their lives! There's a void there that's never gonna be filled and these people are out there; they're celebrating birthdays, and Christmases, and everything else. And what do these families have? Nothing."

Cool says Mayor Michael Bloomberg had promised to stand by them and their families and that the mayor should use his clout now.

The day of the fire, one person, a tenant in the building named Elizabeth Perez, may have summed it up the best:

"They came here to save our lives. And then they gotta die? It's really sad."