Fire Lieutenant Patrick Brady, who died while battling a blaze in Brooklyn last weekend, received a funeral befitting a hero on Saturday.

Thousands of firefighters joined the Brady family at St. Francis de Sales Church in Belle Harbor, Queens, on Nov. 15 to pay their final respects to Brady, who suffered a fatal cardiac event while working to put out a fire on the roof of a building on Kings Highway in Brownsville on Nov. 8.

Brady's casket, draped in an American flag, arrived at the Catholic church on Saturday morning while mounted on the back of the Ladder Company 120 truck. Brady had valiantly served Ladder 120 for the last three years of his 11-year FDNY career; he was previously assigned to Engine Company 227.

Bagpipers from the NYPD and the Suffolk County Police Department set the

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