Category Archives: Families in the News

John G. Chipura Blood Drive to honor a life of continuous service

Saturday’s John G. Chipura Blood Drive will honor a man who was an NYPD officer, a United States Marine, a terrorism survivor, and an FDNY firefighter who responded to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, where he was killed at the age of 39.

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Hundreds gather for funeral for FDNY’s Daniel Foley, who died of 9/11-related cancer

Hundreds turned out in the cold for the funeral of FDNY Firefighter Daniel Foley, 46, who died of World Trade Center-related pancreatic cancer last week, reports Mike Kelly for The Journal […]

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NYC Firefighter Ronnie Gies achieves his father’s dream of becoming an FDNY lieutenant

FDNY Firefighter Ronnie Gies, Jr. will become a lieutenant today, the rank his father, FDNY Firefighter Ronald Gies, Sr., studied for and would have made had he not been killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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