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New York’s Bravest Foundation

Right nowsomeone isgoing in.

Fires. Medical emergencies. Collapse. Hazmat. Terrorism. The job is happening tonight, in this city, in gear that smells like the last one.

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Two storiesTodayThe founding
Firefighters on a wet street at night beside apparatus, fire glowing behind a building

The call

It comes in at the hour nobody is ready for.

Firefighter in turnout gear walking into a smoke-filled doorway

The entry

Someone walks toward the thing everyone else is running from.

After

And someone doesn’t come out the same.

Burns and broken bones. Illness that shows up years later. Members who do not come home at all, and the families left holding the rest of it.

Honored at the awards dinner

Capt. Theodore J. Conroy

Ladder Co. 61 / Ladder Co. 39 · 2019

He heard her coughing, found her by the bedroom window, and carried her down the stairs past the fire — using his own body to shield her.

What a gift does

Injury
·Illness
·Loss
·Families
·Firehouses

Help that shows up when a firefighter is hurt or sick, when a member does not come home, and for the families and firehouses left carrying it.

More than thirty years hosting the Firefighters’ Awards DinnerFriends of Firefighters Humanitarian of the YearIndependent 501(c)(3)

Stand behind them tonight.

An independent 501(c)(3) supporting firefighters and their families. The founding.

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