"Fire Lieutenant Patrick Brady, who died while battling a blaze in Brooklyn last weekend, received a funeral befitting a hero on Saturday. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Fire Lieutenant Patrick Brady, who died while battling a blaze in Brooklyn last weekend, received a funeral befitting a hero on Saturday. Thousands of firefighters joined the Brady family at St. Francis de Sales Church in Belle Harbor, Queens, on Nov. 15 to pay their final respects to Brady, who suffered a fatal cardiac event while working to put out a fire on the roof of a building on Kings Highway in Brownsville on Nov. 8."
"Brady's casket, draped in an American flag, arrived at the Catholic church on Saturday morning while mounted on the back of the Ladder Company 120 truck. Brady had valiantly served Ladder 120 for the last three years of his 11-year FDNY career; he was previously assigned to Engine Company 227. Brady's casket, draped in an American flag, arrived at the Catholic church on Saturday morning while mounted on the back of the Ladder Company 120 truck.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Bagpipers from the NYPD and the Suffolk County Police Department set the mood of the solemn ceremony with music as Brady's colleagues served as pallbearers, carrying his coffin off the truck and into the church."
"Bagpipers from the NYPD and the Suffolk County Police Department set the mood of the solemn ceremony with music as Brady's colleagues served as pallbearers, carrying his coffin off the truck and into the church. Father Peter Purpura, the FDNY chaplain, celebrated the Mass of Christian Burial, and outgoing Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker delivered a eulogy remembering Brady as being emblematic of what a New York City firefighter ought to be."
Thousands of firefighters attended the funeral for Fire Lieutenant Patrick Brady at St. Francis de Sales Church in Belle Harbor, Queens, on Nov. 15. Brady suffered a fatal cardiac event while working to extinguish a roof fire on Kings Highway in Brownsville on Nov. 8. His flag-draped casket arrived mounted on Ladder Company 120's truck, honoring his three years with Ladder 120 and 11 years with the FDNY; he had previously served at Engine Company 227. Bagpipers from the NYPD and Suffolk County Police set a solemn tone as colleagues acted as pallbearers. Father Peter Purpura celebrated the Mass of Christian Burial, and outgoing Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker delivered a eulogy.
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