Firefighter Joseph Angelini Sr
Rescue 1

Laid to Rest
on
September 22, 2001

Firefighter Joseph Angelini

October 23, 2001 -- Doubly heartbroken mourners yesterday saluted firefighter Joseph Angelini Jr. - just a month after services were held in the same church for his dad, who also died saving lives in the Twin Towers attacks.

"They are the first father-son firefighting team ever to die in New York City," the Rev. Edward Seagriff said after the funeral Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Lindenhurst, L.I.

Angelini, of Ladder Co. 4, was the "spitting image" of his dad, firefighter Joseph Angelini Sr., 63, of Rescue 1, the priest said.

"He was very humble. He was an excellent fireman," Seagriff said of the younger hero. Michael Angelini, Joseph Jr.'s younger brother, is also a firefighter and, while at the World Trade Center disaster, was asked to help carry out FDNY chaplain Mychal Judge, who was among the dead.

"Had Michael not been asked to do that, it was a strong likelihood he might have died as well," the priest said.
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