A city firefighter was killed in a ferocious Brooklyn house blaze this afternoon — two years after he gave a moving eulogy for a fellow Bravest who also died in the line of duty, the NY Post reports. Five other firefighters were injured in Sunday’s inferno, authorities said.
Timothy Klein, 31, apparently became separated from his comrades while fighting Sunday’s fire and may have suffered cardiac arrest inside 10826 Avenue N, near East 108th Street, where he was found, according authorities and sources. Other firefighters jumped out a second-floor window during the blaze.
“New York City has lost one of its bravest,” Mayor Eric Adams said at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn on Sunday evening. FDNY Acting Chief of Dept. John Hodgens said, “Everything seemed to be going routine when suddenly the entire second floor became engulfed in flames.”
Klein, who was assigned to Ladder Co. 170, gave the eulogy for fellow firefighter Steven Pollard in 2019, after Pollard was killed at the scene of a car crash on the Belt Parkway when he fell through a gap in the roadway.
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I was on that block an hour before.
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A white guy gave his life to save a black family and we nothing out of Hank Newsome and BLM.
Thank you fireman for your dedicated work. May you rest in peace and your family be consoled.