The names of nearly 40 more heroic New York City firefighters who died from 9/11-caused illnesses were added to the FDNY’s emotional World Trade Center memorial at the department’s Brooklyn headquarters Tuesday.

The 39 heroes included generational firefighters who followed kin into the department, fathers who rushed into danger without a thought for their own safety, and people who went on to advocate for 9/11 first responders in the years after the 2001 disaster.

“He drove straight to the World Trade Center. He spent the whole day and night there. We did not know his whereabouts,” Nicole Doherty said of her father, retired Deputy Chief Nicholas J. Doherty, referring to Sept. 11, 2001.

“We heard from other fellow firefighters … they saw him at Ground Zero. So they wanted to tell my mo

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