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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