ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.
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^^^^^^^^RET BC Owen McCrudden Batt.14
Wake will be held at the Clarke Funeral Home
2104 Saw Mill River Road
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Hrs: Thursday, 2 - 4 pm and 7 - 9pm
Service: Mass of Christian Burial: Friday 10am, St. Joseph's Church, Somers
For those who wish, memorial contributions may be made to the New York Firefighters Burn Center, 21 Asch Loop, Bronx, NY 10475, nyffburncenter.com
Wake will be held at the Clarke Funeral Home
2104 Saw Mill River Road
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Hrs: Thursday, 2 - 4 pm and 7 - 9pm
Service: Mass of Christian Burial: Friday 10am, St. Joseph's Church, Somers
For those who wish, memorial contributions may be made to the New York Firefighters Burn Center, 21 Asch Loop, Bronx, NY 10475, nyffburncenter.com
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RET FF PATRICK A. DE ROSA ENG*161...REST IN PEACE BROTHER....PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES....
DOD: 9/18/2017 Ret. 7/30/1997
Wake/Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home
7447 Amboy Road
Staten Island, NY 10307
Thursday 9/28/2017 2 - 4 & 7 - 9 PM
Funeral Mass: St. Joseph-St. Thomas Parish
6097 Amboy Road
Staten Island, NY 10309
Friday 9/29/2017 10:30 AM
Interment: Cemetery of the Resurrection
361 Sharrot Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10309
DOD: 9/18/2017 Ret. 7/30/1997
Wake/Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home
7447 Amboy Road
Staten Island, NY 10307
Thursday 9/28/2017 2 - 4 & 7 - 9 PM
Funeral Mass: St. Joseph-St. Thomas Parish
6097 Amboy Road
Staten Island, NY 10309
Friday 9/29/2017 10:30 AM
Interment: Cemetery of the Resurrection
361 Sharrot Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10309
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RET FF ANTONY APUZZO ENG*34...REST IN PEACE BROTHER....PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES...
DOD: 9/19/2017 Ret. 3/10/1975
Wake/Visitation: Michael J. Higgins Funeral Services, Inc.
113 Lake Road
Congers, NY 10920 (845) 213-3642
Sunday 9/24/2017 2 - 9 PM
Monday 9/25/2017 2 - 4 & 7 - 9 PM
Funeral Mass: St. Paul's R.C. Church
82 Lake Road
Congers, NY 10920
Tuesday 9/26/2017 10:00 AM
DOD: 9/19/2017 Ret. 3/10/1975
Wake/Visitation: Michael J. Higgins Funeral Services, Inc.
113 Lake Road
Congers, NY 10920 (845) 213-3642
Sunday 9/24/2017 2 - 9 PM
Monday 9/25/2017 2 - 4 & 7 - 9 PM
Funeral Mass: St. Paul's R.C. Church
82 Lake Road
Congers, NY 10920
Tuesday 9/26/2017 10:00 AM
This morning I read the sad news of THREE MORE War Years Vets passing.
We are loosing the Greatest Generation of Firefighters that ever lived. I really don't know who most of these guys were. BUT I know what they did, day after day and night after night.
Today to try and explain what it was like then is hard for even the most seasoned firefighters to understand.
They shared a Brotherhood that perhaps could only be compared to military members under combat conditions.
"THEY REALLY WERE THE GREATEST".
May They Rest in Peace and Thank you for your years of dedicated service risking your lives for the citizens and many visitors to the City of New York.
We are loosing the Greatest Generation of Firefighters that ever lived. I really don't know who most of these guys were. BUT I know what they did, day after day and night after night.
Today to try and explain what it was like then is hard for even the most seasoned firefighters to understand.
They shared a Brotherhood that perhaps could only be compared to military members under combat conditions.
"THEY REALLY WERE THE GREATEST".
May They Rest in Peace and Thank you for your years of dedicated service risking your lives for the citizens and many visitors to the City of New York.
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Rest in Peace Firefighter Edward Cooper. Thoughts and prayers for your family at home and on the job. I believe F/F Cooper was also DC Phil Burns Aide in the 11 Div.
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Arrangements for Ed Cooper....DOD: 9/24/2017 Ret. 1/21/2001
Wake/Visitation: Chapey & Sons
20 Hicksville Road
Bethpage, NY 11714
Thursday 9/28/2017 2 - 4:30 & 7 - 9:30 PM
Funeral Mass: St. James R.C. Church
80 Hicksville Road
Seaford, NY 11783
Friday 9/29/2017 10:15 AM
Interment: All Faiths Cemetery
67-29 Metropolitan Avenue
Middle Village, NY 11379
Wake/Visitation: Chapey & Sons
20 Hicksville Road
Bethpage, NY 11714
Thursday 9/28/2017 2 - 4:30 & 7 - 9:30 PM
Funeral Mass: St. James R.C. Church
80 Hicksville Road
Seaford, NY 11783
Friday 9/29/2017 10:15 AM
Interment: All Faiths Cemetery
67-29 Metropolitan Avenue
Middle Village, NY 11379
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^^^^^^^^^From the 1991 Medal Day Book:
Firefighter EDWARD X. COOPER
Ladder Company 105
DR. JOHN F. CONNELL MEDAL
February 13, 1990
2239 Hours
682 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
Box 75-0978
At the Dean Street firehouse in Brooklyn's downtown section that calm winter evening, Firefighter Edward Cooper had prepared his work tools and stowed his turnout gear on the apparatus. The night tour had been relatively quiet during the early part of the evening, but that would soon change as, suddenly, alarm tones filled every corner of the firehouse, their mournful sound alerting the members that they had a run.
Arriving at a four-story occupied frame multiple dwelling in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, they found a fire so intense that the smoke belching from every window, door and opening made it impossible to see the building itself from the street. In a way that only a firefighter that has faced the situation could understand, Ed's thoughts were simple and sage, "This is gonna hurt."
Through the darkness and a momentary parting of the smoke, Ed, the outside ventman, could see two occupants on the top floor hanging out one of the windows. Then the breeze shifted and the smoke swallowed them up again. With his outside team partner, Firefighter Bill Stark, Ed set up the apparatus tormentors and jacks and jumped into the tower ladder basket. The apparatus groaned and shook as the tons of steel boom and basket lifted out of the carriage and rotated toward the building. The basket cut through the blinding smoke and zeroed in on the location where the people in the window were last seen. As the huge bucket inched toward the building, Ed realized that they would be unable to properly position next to the window because of the zero visibility, so he positioned the bucket next to the raised aerial ladder of Ladder 132, already in position with its ladder placed in a window. Ed and his partner climbed out of the tower bucket and onto the ladder, precariously perched forty feet above the ground.
Once at the window, the team entered a front bedroom, located the victim, Patricia Harris, 32, and dragged her to the window. However, removing her was extremely difficult because of her size, at least 300 pounds, and the various obstacles that had to be negotiated: the window sill, aerial ladder rails and rungs, and the tower ladder bucket side rails. Through a Herculean effort, the two of them pulled and tugged, inch-by-inch, until the victim was finally in the basket. As Ed administered rescue breathing to the victim, Stark reentered the room and emerged with another victim, Leroy Rivers, 45, and the dangerous process of getting him into the bucket while fire raged below was repeated.
Now the basket could be lowered to the street, in what Ed thought would be the final touch in a dramatic series of heroic efforts. Within seconds, the two victims were handed over to EMS to be transported to Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. But his work was not yet over as another victim, Carroll Eliot, 31, was found in the apartment and Ed had to ascend through the smoke and fire again to retrieve her, only to discover that she had already succumbed to the fire. Two lives were saved as a result of Firefighter Edward Cooper's cool, steady control under adverse conditions of zero visibility and an out-of-control fire below him. It is with great pride and satisfaction that the John F. Connell Medal is awarded to Firefighter
Edward X. Cooper of Ladder 105. Appointed to the FDNY on October 6, 1962. Cited on seven previous occasions. Father, FF. Edward X. Cooper, was with Ladder 104; grandfather, FF. Joseph T. Cooper, was with the Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department; great-grandfather, FF John J. Cooper, was with Engine 18; great-grandfather FF. Henry Jones, was with the FDNY; uncle, FF. Benjamin Cooper, was with Engine 222; and cousin, Chief Joseph Cooper, was with Battalion 46.
Firefighter EDWARD X. COOPER
Ladder Company 105
DR. JOHN F. CONNELL MEDAL
February 13, 1990
2239 Hours
682 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
Box 75-0978
At the Dean Street firehouse in Brooklyn's downtown section that calm winter evening, Firefighter Edward Cooper had prepared his work tools and stowed his turnout gear on the apparatus. The night tour had been relatively quiet during the early part of the evening, but that would soon change as, suddenly, alarm tones filled every corner of the firehouse, their mournful sound alerting the members that they had a run.
Arriving at a four-story occupied frame multiple dwelling in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, they found a fire so intense that the smoke belching from every window, door and opening made it impossible to see the building itself from the street. In a way that only a firefighter that has faced the situation could understand, Ed's thoughts were simple and sage, "This is gonna hurt."
Through the darkness and a momentary parting of the smoke, Ed, the outside ventman, could see two occupants on the top floor hanging out one of the windows. Then the breeze shifted and the smoke swallowed them up again. With his outside team partner, Firefighter Bill Stark, Ed set up the apparatus tormentors and jacks and jumped into the tower ladder basket. The apparatus groaned and shook as the tons of steel boom and basket lifted out of the carriage and rotated toward the building. The basket cut through the blinding smoke and zeroed in on the location where the people in the window were last seen. As the huge bucket inched toward the building, Ed realized that they would be unable to properly position next to the window because of the zero visibility, so he positioned the bucket next to the raised aerial ladder of Ladder 132, already in position with its ladder placed in a window. Ed and his partner climbed out of the tower bucket and onto the ladder, precariously perched forty feet above the ground.
Once at the window, the team entered a front bedroom, located the victim, Patricia Harris, 32, and dragged her to the window. However, removing her was extremely difficult because of her size, at least 300 pounds, and the various obstacles that had to be negotiated: the window sill, aerial ladder rails and rungs, and the tower ladder bucket side rails. Through a Herculean effort, the two of them pulled and tugged, inch-by-inch, until the victim was finally in the basket. As Ed administered rescue breathing to the victim, Stark reentered the room and emerged with another victim, Leroy Rivers, 45, and the dangerous process of getting him into the bucket while fire raged below was repeated.
Now the basket could be lowered to the street, in what Ed thought would be the final touch in a dramatic series of heroic efforts. Within seconds, the two victims were handed over to EMS to be transported to Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. But his work was not yet over as another victim, Carroll Eliot, 31, was found in the apartment and Ed had to ascend through the smoke and fire again to retrieve her, only to discover that she had already succumbed to the fire. Two lives were saved as a result of Firefighter Edward Cooper's cool, steady control under adverse conditions of zero visibility and an out-of-control fire below him. It is with great pride and satisfaction that the John F. Connell Medal is awarded to Firefighter
Edward X. Cooper of Ladder 105. Appointed to the FDNY on October 6, 1962. Cited on seven previous occasions. Father, FF. Edward X. Cooper, was with Ladder 104; grandfather, FF. Joseph T. Cooper, was with the Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department; great-grandfather, FF John J. Cooper, was with Engine 18; great-grandfather FF. Henry Jones, was with the FDNY; uncle, FF. Benjamin Cooper, was with Engine 222; and cousin, Chief Joseph Cooper, was with Battalion 46.
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RET FF PAUL C. DOPSCH ENG*14...RET 1975..OTJ 27 years.... REST IN PEACE BROTHER....THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BOTH MILITARY & FDNY....PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES...Wake: Leo F. Learns
445. East Meadow Ave
East Meadow, NY 11554
Tues. 10/10/2017. 4 - 8 PM
Funeral Mass: St. Raphael R.C. Church
600 Newbridge Road
East Meadow, NY. 11554
Wed. 10/11/2017 10:45 AM
Interment: CALVERTON National Cemetery
445. East Meadow Ave
East Meadow, NY 11554
Tues. 10/10/2017. 4 - 8 PM
Funeral Mass: St. Raphael R.C. Church
600 Newbridge Road
East Meadow, NY. 11554
Wed. 10/11/2017 10:45 AM
Interment: CALVERTON National Cemetery
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RET FF BIAGIO ALBA ENG*313....RET 1980 after 20 yrs OTJ... REST IN PEACE BROTHER....THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BOTH MILITARY (US ARMY KOREAN WAR) & FDNY......PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES.... www.branchfh.com/book-of-memories/3213754/Alba-Biagio/service-details.php
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ACTIVE FF CHRIS MUCCINI LAD*35 ...USMC 2/6.....In his sleep at 46 years of age...arrangements to follow... his Brother is a LT in 319......REST IN PEACE BROTHER....THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BOTH MILITARY (USMC) & FDNY.....SEMPER FI....PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES.
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RET LT ROBERT STEIN...At age 72...RET Sept 2000 after 22 yrs OTJ.... REST IN PEACE BROTHER...THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BOTH MILITARY (USN) & FDNY...PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES....In the link Please click on "PLAY VIDEO" & offer a Prayer... www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsday/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=186952637