Michael Quilty Firefighter Passionate About Work,
Family Michael Quilty telephoned his wife, Susan, moments after
the attack on the World Trade Center. He was en route to the scene
from his station house, Ladder Co. 11, on Manhattan's Lower East
Side. Quilty, 42, is believed to have been on the 30th floor of
Tower Two when it caved in. He was promoted to lieutenant two
years ago and celebrated his 20th anniversary as a firefighter
Sept.5. Born and raised on Staten Island, he was graduated from
Countess Moore High School before earning an associate's degree
in liberal arts from the College of Staten Island. He received
a medal in 1997 for rescuing a woman from a Brooklyn fire. When
it came to his family, Quilty was equally as passionate. For the
past seven years, he coached his daughter's soccer team, while
almost singlehandedly doing a gut renovation of the family's three-bedroom
Dutch colonial on Staten Island. A certified scuba diver, Quilty
earned his pilot's license in 1981. He is survived by his wife
of 17 years; his parents, Joseph and Rose; son, Daniel, and daughter,
Kerry; and brother, Daniel, and sisters, Eileen Peterson and Suzanne
Quilty. --Collin Nash (Newsday)
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