HICKSVILLE, N.Y. — Ray Pfeifer needed a wheelchair to get around his Hicksville home when PIX11 visited the retired Bronx firefighter there recently. He used a motorized seat to get up the stairs to his second floor bedroom.
“I am in hospice care now, for terminal cancer,” Pfeifer told PIX11 matter of factly. “I have brain cancer, cancer in my nodules, my lungs and my adrenal glands.”
But the 59-year-old father of two is not too tired to go another round in a battle he feels strongly about: the fight to get his name on the FDNY’s main Wall of Honor, once he succumbs to his disease.
It’s recognition that hasn’t been afforded to more than 140, other FDNY personnel who died from 9/11-related illnesses, in the years after the terror attacks.
The FDNY has created a separate Wall of Honor for the men and women who responded to the catastrophe at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and later died, because of the toxins they were exposed to.
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