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An 11-year veteran of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) died in the line of duty on Saturday, Commissioner Robert S. Tucker and Mayor Eric Adams announced.

Firefighter Patrick Brady, 42, was working on the roof of an all-hands apartment fire in Brooklyn “when he suffered a medical episode and went into cardiac arrest,” a media release said.

Fellow FDNY firefighters and emergency medical services members treated him at the scene, before he was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he died.

“The entire FDNY is heartbroken over the loss of Firefighter Patrick Brady,” Commissioner Tucker said in a statement. “Firefighter Brady was a dedicated public servant, and firefighting was in his blood. We are thinki

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