FDNY adds 39 more names of personnel to die of 911

Five-year-old Logan Albert, cradled in the arm of his mother, Jacqueline Murphy-Albert of Babylon, gazed up at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall in Downtown Brooklyn at FDNY headquarters, where the engraved name of his grandfather, retired city firefighter Lawrence T. Murphy of East Islip, had just been unveiled.

A bell tolled 39 times; 39 white roses were placed in memoriam by widows and other loved ones. Murphy’s widow, Janice — Murphy-Albert’s mother, Logan’s grandmother — placed a rose at the base of the memorial on behalf of the family.

Lawrence T. Murphy, who died Nov. 18 at age 77 of 9/11-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, was one of 39 names — mostly firefighters but also other FDNY personnel such as medics, supervisors, chiefs, a carpenter and a fire marshal —