MONROE, N.Y. (AP) - The New York mayor told mourners that a firefighter who died of a heart attack after a 24-hour shift kept responding to emergency calls while already feeling pain.
The casket of Brian Sullivan arrived on a fire truck for his funeral Friday at Sacred Heart Church in Monroe, a town in Orange County north of New York City where he lived.
The 54-year-old city firefighter, the father of two daughters, suffered a heart attack last Saturday just after completing his tour.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio called Sullivan “a good man” who responded to multiple emergency calls even while in pain.
Sullivan was a member of the Special Operations Command at the Fire Department of New York.
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