Firefighter
Patrick Byrne
Ladder 101
Memorial Service was held
on
November 29, 2001.
PATRICK
BYRNE, 39, of New York, studied accounting for two years in community
college, but "being confined to a chair – it wasn't
him," said his mother, Anne Byrne. So Byrne started his own roofing company
in the mid 1980s, and eventually became a firefighter, graduating from
the fire academy in 1994. "He was an excellent firefighter who knew his
job," said Byrne's fire Capt. Thomas Giordano. Whenever a family member
would ask Byrne what he did at the firehouse, his mother said he would
reply, "Fighting fires, saving lives." His mother said the response was
really "tongue-in cheek," but "that's what they do, isn't it?"
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