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  eNews@theBravest.com                                                                 Issue 47-08

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Fallen Firefighter ' Didn't Talk

About Helping People' -But

He Just Went Ahead and Did It

Ryan's widow said, "The outpouring of love and respect is overwhelming.

One thing I can tell you for sure is that Bobby truly deserves it.  "The warm

embrace we all felt from Bobby, I feel it now here with all of you."

'Bobby lived simply, cared deeply, loved genuinely,' Kathleen Ryan said.

If the world were even remotely fair, Kathleen Ryan would have been looking forward to Thanksgiving with her family in the new house they were making the home of their dreams.

"We were happy layering our home with happiness and warmth," she said of the house she and Fire Lt. Robert Ryan moved into nine months ago. "It was a place to grow."

The dream was upended early Sunday, when the lieutenant known as a "fireman's fireman" was killed in a blaze sparked by faulty wiring.

Now, on this chilly day before Thanksgiving, Kathleen Ryan was at her husband's funeral in Sacred Heart Church on Staten Island.

She reached over and placed her open right hand on his coffin when the Rev. Louis Jerome called for the mourners to exchange a sign of peace.

She listened to Mayor Bloomberg and then Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta extol this firefighter who could have retired with a tax-free disability pension after being seriously burned in a blaze.

Instead, he spent a year struggling back to full duty, only to be fatally injured in a fire just 14 minutes after the alarm came in>>>

'New York was Lucky to Have Him'

"You couldn't ask for a better leader of men. He treated his firefighters as though they were his own kids," said Capt. John Graziano at the wake>>>

Tragic Reminder for Bravest Widows

"It brought me to tears. It's so ironic that it was today," said Tina Bilcher, widow of FDNY Firefighter Brian Bilcher, who was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. "I definitely feel the sadness in the air. ... Widows don't need to know each other. We know the pain.">>>

Fire Commissioner Scoppetta Announces Fire Unit Night Closings to Begin January 17

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta today announced the Department will cease operating a fire unit on Governor’s Island and will eliminate night tours at four other firefighting units beginning January 17 to meet an $8.9 million agency budget cut announced last month due to the city’s financial crisis.>>>

FDNY Ranks #1 in Neighborhood & Citywide Services Survey 

The Bloomberg Administration has released results from a first-ever survey of how New Yorkers feel about their city and the quality of municipal services. New Yorkers rank neighborhood satisfaction with the FDNY services highest, EMS in second, and police in third place.>>>

Workers Trapped in Five-Alarm Fire in Astoria, Queens: Rescued by Hero FFs  

"All the exits were blocked, we couldn't get out. Firefighters got here three to five minutes top and got us out.">>>

More Than 100 Animals Perish in Bronx Pet Shop Blaze

Rivera said many of the 140 firefighters summoned to the three-alarm blaze risked their lives to save as many of the doomed creatures - parrots, parakeets, rabbits, guinea pigs, lizards and other reptiles, at least two cats and a pair of guard dogs - as they could.>>>

Raging Bronx Inferno Leaves 40 Homeless

A fast-moving fire consumed much of a Bronx block Sunday night, leaving 40 people homeless. More than 130 firefighters battled the raging 6:45 p.m. blaze that moved down Rogers Place in the Longwood section.>>>

2-Alarm Blaze Damages Engine 80/

Ladder 23 Harlem Firehouse

Firefighters from a Harlem firehouse were responding to a call when a blaze was reported at a familiar address: their own firehouse.>>>

Awash in New Light, Angels Are Revealed at St. John the Divine

Robert Holzmaier, chief of the New York Fire Department’s 11th Battalion, which helped to put out the six-alarm fire that erupted in the wiring of the cathedral’s gift shop on Dec. 18, 2001, two months after the 9/11 attacks, led a contingent of firefighters invited to participate in Sunday’s ceremony.>>>

Stox-Socked Fund Pays Lawyers, Stiffs Heroes

The WTC Captive Insurance Co., a nonprofit governed by officials appointed by Mayor Bloomberg, has spent $172 million on administrative and legal costs since 2004 - but paid just $320,000 to five workers with orthopedic injuries, records show.>>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FDNY Creates Fund for Lt Robert Ryan's Children

The FDNY has created a fund to help pay for the education expenses for Robert and Kathleen Ryan's four children. Please direct donations to the "Robert Ryan Children's Educational Fund" and send them to: FDNY Foundation, 9 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

 

Support the Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund This Saturday

The staff and faithful at R.P. McMurphy's in Wantagh vowed they would never forget and they haven't:

"For every case of Jim Beam sold, $2 will be donated to the Terry Farrell Firefighters Scholarship Fund. This worldwide charity gives much needed-financial aid to the sons and daughters of firefighters.

Bartender Billy Regan informs us the Christmas party will be held Saturday, with a 1 p.m. kickoff.

                               

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