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Wake Held For Firefighter Killed In Iraq

DECEMBER 07TH, 2004

Thousands of firefighters are expected to turn out this week to mourn one of their own killed while serving in Iraq.

A wake for National Guard Sergeant Chris Engeldrum will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Schuyler Funeral Home in the Bronx. His funeral will be Thursday.

The 39-year-old was a member of Ladder Company 61 in the Bronx, and earlier he was also police officer in the 47th Precinct.

Engeldrum died last week when a bomb exploded under his Humvee in Baghdad.

He was a father of two boys, and his wife is pregnant with their third child.

Meanwhile, another local soldier is being mourned. Military officials say Bronx-born Staff Sergeant Henry Irizarry was killed Friday, also when a bomb went off near his Humvee.

The 38-year-old had moved to Connecticut recently. According to published reports, the married father of four had hoped to be home on leave for Christmas.

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