Public Employee Press

The DC 37 members who perished in the 9/11 tragedy will live forever in our hearts.

By ALFREDO ALVARADO

Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, Local 299
After nine years as a Fire Dept. Chaplain, "Father Mike" died doing what he cared about most: ministering to city Firefighters.

When he heard the World Trade Center had been hit, the Roman Catholic priest rushed to the site. After giving victims the Last Rites, he was praying for the rescuers, the injured and the dead when he was killed by falling debris in the lobby of the north tower. Firefighters carried his body to nearby St. Peter's Church.

Known for his extraordinary compassion and deep spirituality, Father Judge ministered to people with AIDS and firefighters with alcohol problems and opened his church to gay activists.

More than 3,000 attended his funeral, where then-Sen. Hillary Clinton delivered a eulogy.





Chet Louie, Betting Clerk, Local 2021
A highly regarded member of Off-Track Betting Employees Local 2021, Chet Louie, 45, worked two jobs. At night he served as a Betting Clerk in an OTB parlor on Chinatown's Chatham Square; in the morning he went to the 104th floor of One World Trade Center, where he was a compliance officer for the Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage and one of more than 600 employees of the firm who died on 9/11.











Ricardo Quinn, Paramedic Lieutenant, Local 3621
After he completed training, Paramedic Ricardo Quinn chose to work in Bedford-Stuyvesant because "he wanted to be where the action was," said his widow, Virginia.

Off-duty when the planes hit the World Trade Center, Quinn rushed to Ground Zero "to help anyone who was injured," said co-worker Ralph Carmine. Quinn was rescuing people in Two World Trade Center when the tower collapsed. The Fire Dept. promoted him posthumously to Lieutenant. He was proud of the couple's three boys, Nick, Adam and Kevin. "The children were his life," said Virginia.









Carlos Lillo, Paramedic, Local 2507
A 17-year EMS veteran, Paramedic Carlos Lillo, 37, was mobilized on 9/11 from Battalion 49 in Astoria to One World Trade Center, where his wife, Cecilia, worked for the Port Authority on the 64th floor.

As he helped others escape, he tried to reach her by cell phone but failed. She was trying to call him to say she had escaped unharmed. "He was my hero . . . trying to save me," she said.

Lillo came to New York from Puerto Rico with his parents when he was 15, married Cecilia in 2000 and bought a new home in North Babylon in hopes of starting a family. He was in hazardous materials training and planning to take the Lieutenant exam when he died.