They never forget: FDNY joins descendants to honor firefighters killed in 1923 line-of-duty train crash

Key Facts

• Three city firefighters killed in a devastating Long Island Rail Road crash a century ago were remembered Sunday during a special plaque dedication at a Queens firehouse.
• The firefighters’ descendants, including great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren, were on hand to witness the ceremony at Engine 285/Ladder 142 in Ozone Park.
• Plaque dedication ceremony in Queens on Sunday for three fallen FDNY firefighters who were killed when their apparatus was struck by a train in 1923.
• (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)

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