An FDNY firefighter died after having a medical episode and going into cardiac arrest while working on the roof of a building ablaze Saturday night in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood.
The firefighter, 42-year-old Patrick D. Brady, of Belle Harbor, Queens, had been on the job for 11 years, the FDNY said in a news release.
At the time of the medical episode, Brady was among the firefighters working to extinguish a fire at 9407 Kings Hwy., which, according to StreetEasy, is a six-story rental apartment building with 96 units. Fellow firefighters and medics treated him at the scene and then rushed him to Brookdale hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the release said.
"He gave his life protecting the city we all love; there is no sacrifice that is more selfless than the actions that

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