BUT city fireman was killed in ferocious brooklyn house blaze on a Sunday afternoon – two years after he gave moving panegyric for Comrade Brave who also died in line of duty.
Five more firefighters were injured in Sunday hell, authorities said.
dead Bravest, Timothy Klein – 31styear-old son of retired smoke eater – apparently separated from his comrades while fighting Sunday fire and may have suffered from a heart attack arrest inside 10826 Avenue N where he was found, according to authorities and sources. Other firefighters jumped out a second-floor window during a fire.
New York lost one of he’s the bravest,” Mayor Eric Adams said at Brookdale Hospital. in brooklyn on Sunday evening.
Acting Chief of the FDNY of Department John Hodgins said: “Timothy died doing his job, which he was asked to do every day.
“Everything seemed to go on as usual, when all of a sudden second floor was absorbed in flame”.
Klein, who was assigned to Ladder Co. 170, eulogized for fellow firefighter Steven Pollard in 2019, after Pollard was killed at the scene. of a car crash on Belt Boulevard when it fell into the abyss in roadway.
“Stephen Pollard died without thinking of alone, but trying help others,” Klein said at the time. “We lost true the hero of that night. It breaks my heart know that the days of work are near you over …You will never be forgotten.”
Sunday it was Klein who was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was declared dead, the sources said.
An FDNY spokesman said firefighters were dispatched at two-story home at 13:39, with more more than 100 of the bravest worked on the scene as the fire was raised to alert level three shortly after 2:00 pm.
Adams said five other firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Civil who was injured, treated on the spot and refused further medical attention, the FDNY said.
Sources said the injured firefighters were taken to Staten Island University Hospital with burns.
last city fireman to die in line of duty was 33-year-Old Jesse Gerhard in February.
Additional report by Reuven Fenton
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