Overview
- Brady was posthumously promoted to lieutenant during services at St. Francis de Sales in Belle Harbor, where Fire Commissioner Robert S. Tucker addressed mourners.
- Thousands of uniformed firefighters filled the church and surrounding streets, with city leaders among those paying respects, according to on-scene reports.
- Brady suffered cardiac arrest Nov. 8 while operating on the roof at a top-floor fire on Kings Highway in East Flatbush and was later pronounced at Brookdale Hospital.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered flags on state buildings lowered to half-staff in his honor, and FDNY leadership praised Brady as "one of our best."
- The Queens native is survived by his wife, Kara, and a family deeply tied to the FDNY, and his death is among the department's 1,163 recorded line‑of‑duty losses in a period that also saw a recent paramedic fatality.