{"id":381059,"date":"2025-11-15T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381059\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:14:17","slug":"fdny-firefighter-patrick-brady-to-be-laid-to-rest-at-funeral-today-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381059\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY Firefighter Patrick Brady to be laid to rest at funeral today in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral for fallen New York City firefighter Patrick Brady is underway today in Queens, where family and friends are gathered to mourn his loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old FDNY veteran died in the line of duty last weekend in Brooklyn after officials said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/patrick-brady-fdny-firefighter-death-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went into cardiac arrest<\/a> on the roof of a burning building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brady&#8217;s funeral is being held at Church of St. Francis de Sales in Belle Harbor. Firefighters from across the country are in attendance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can watch a livestream of the service on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-vanity-rewritten=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News New York<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds salute fallen firefighter at wake<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/fdny-firefighter-patrick-brady-wake\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brady&#8217;s wake<\/a>\u00a0at the Marine Park Funeral Home on Quentin Road in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>His widow gave remarks thanking them all for their expressions of love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 16 years we shared together were the best of my life,&#8221; Kara Brady said. &#8220;Every story shared, every hug, and every kind word is helping us navigate the pain of losing my husband, my best friend, my rock, Patrick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/devlin-6p-pkg-firefight-wcbsfs55-hi-res-still-00-00-5507-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"devlin-6p-pkg-firefight-wcbsfs55-hi-res-still-00-00-5507-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                FDNY<\/p>\n<p>Brady is also survived by his brothers, who are also FDNY firefighters, as well as uncles and cousins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our best&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brady, a Queens native, was an 11-year veteran of the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>After his death, black and purple bunting were draped outside his firehouse in Brownsville, which colleagues said was his second home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ladder 120 and Engine 231 have lost one of their best, and Pat Brady was one of our best and we mourn the loss,&#8221; FDNY Chief of Department John Esposito said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patrick was larger than life. He represented what a firefighter and, more importantly, a genuine good person should be,&#8221; FDNY Battalion Chief Scott Coyne said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered all government buildings to lower flags to half staff Saturday to honor Brady.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/mark-prussin\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark  Prussin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral for fallen New York City firefighter Patrick Brady is underway today in Queens, where family and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6525,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-381059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115554606652790145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}