Firefighter
Terrence Farrell
Rescue
4
Laid to Rest
on November 1, 2001
Giving His Very Self
Terrence P. Farrell lived close to the
flame, said his brother Dennis. As a transit police officer, Terrence Farrell's
specialty had been disasters. In the Fire Department, he joined Rescue Company
4, an elite unit specially trained to do things like extricate people from
collapsed buildings. Mr. Farrell, who was 45, was not simply a New York City
firefighter. He was also a volunteer fireman near his home in Huntington,
N.Y., a part-time construction contractor and a father of two. And, a few
years back, he helped save the life of a child in Nevada by donating his
bone marrow. Here is that story. When Mr. Farrell joined the department,
his blood had been tested as part of a program to screen for potential bone
marrow donors, Dennis Farrell said. Told years later that his blood matched
that of a small girl dying of t-cell lymphoma, he underwent the painful process
of marrow extraction. A year later, he learned that the child was considered
cured. She and her family flew to New York and had lunch with him at the
World Trade Center, his brother said. On Nov. 1, they were back. Fellow firefighters
had raised $3,000 to fly them to New York for Mr. Farrell's funeral because
they did not have the money.
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