NYC funeral services set for FDNY firefighter who died battling all-hands blaze

Fallen FDNY firefighter Patrick Brady will receive a hero’s farewell.

The married 42-year-old fire department veteran, who died tragically in the line of duty over the weekend, will be mourned at a wake in Brooklyn on Friday and a funeral mass Saturday in his Queens neighborhood before being laid to rest, the FDNY announced.

Hundreds are expected to attend the services, including his firefighter siblings and cousin.

The wake is scheduled for Friday at the Marine Park Funeral Home, 3024 Quentin Road, in Brooklyn, with visitation from 2 to 4 p.m., and 7 to 9 p.m., the department said.

A funeral mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Church of St. Francis de Sales, 129-16 Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Belle Harbor, fire officials said.

Brady was battling a blaze on the roof of a six-story Brooklyn apartment building shortly after 9:30 p.m. Saturday when he suffered a heart attack and was later pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital.

His sudden death stunned his quiet Queens neighborhood, where flags were flown at half-mast and locals were tying red ribbons and red bows around trees and utility poles in honor of the fallen hero.

“I’m putting them on all the trees here on the block,” Breezy Point resident Linda Lomanto, 51, told The Post Monday. “I felt like just, y’know, on this block alone there’s his parents, his first cousin. It’ll be nice to let them know how we feel. But even people further away, it’s something you have to do to let the firefighters and police know we have their backs, especially now.

“We’re going to put them on every pole, not just in Breezy, Belle Harbor too,” she said.

Linda Hwang, 67, who owns Belle Harbor Foods, said locals were stocking up on mementos of their neighborhood hero, including copies of The Post’s front page report on his death.

“We ran out of [the] New York Post by noon,” Hwang said. “Everyone coming in wants a copy to keep for him. They know him. Everyone know him here. They love him. They keep coming in and asking me if I am getting more papers.

“It’s terrible,” she added. “So sad. He came in every day. Such a nice man.”

Meanwhile, tenants in the six-story Kings Highway building in Brownsville where Brady collapsed were also still talking about the Big Apple hero’s death.

“I see a lot of firemen running upstairs and then I see them bringing down one of their own, on a stretcher,” one resident recalled. “The elevator was turned off so they had to bring him down the stairs.

“He had the heart attack on the roof,” the man said. “When I saw him pass by here on the stretcher, I knew he was gone.”

On Sunday, Brady’s wife, Kara Yankay, joined her husband’s family — including firefighting brothers Jimmy and Brian — as black and purple bunting was hung outside the Ladder 120 firehouse in Brownsville, a traditional ceremony to honor fallen fire heroes.

City fire officials said Brady’s funeral Saturday will be streamed life at http://www.nyc.gov/FDNY.