Michael F. of New Hyde Park, NY. FDNY Ladder #4. Heroically in the Line of Duty at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, age 33. Devoted husband and best friend of Denise (nee Bertrand).

It’s now been two decades since six FDNY firefighters were forced to leap from the fourth floor of a Bronx building, killing two and critically injuring four ...

Bergin, who was 9 at the time, works at Ladder 157 in Brooklyn. “I wanted to be a firefighter for as long as I can remember,” Bergin Jr., 32, said, in a post on the FDNY’s Instagram page.