Firefighter Steven Pollard's Funeral Plans Announced

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- Funeral arrangements have been made for the Brooklyn firefighter who died after falling from a Belt Parkway Bridge while trying to save two victims of a car crash.

The wake for Steven Pollard will be held at the Marine Park Funeral Home on Wednesday and Thursday, his funeral mass will take place at the Good Shepherd R.C. Church Street on Friday morning, and a committal service will follow at the Green-Wood Cemetery Crematory Chapel.

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Wake
Marine Park Funeral Home
3024 Quentin Road
Wednesday, Jan. 9, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 10, from 2 p.m. to 4:00 and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Funeral Mass
Good Shepherd R.C. Church
1950 Batchelder St.
Friday, Jan. 11, at 11:30 a.m.

Committal Service
Green-Wood Cemetery Crematory Chapel
500 25th St.

Pollard, 30, was assigned to Ladder Company 170 when he died on the Mill Basin Bridge Sunday night, less than two years after he joined the force, officials said.

The firefighter was racing toward two men injured in a car crash when he fell between a gap in the bridge and fell about 50 feet, according to the FDNY.

Pollard died from his injuries at Kings County Hospital.

Pollard was the son of 32-year FDNY veteran Raymond Pollard, a retired member of Bed-Stuy's Ladder Company 102, and the brother of Ladder Company 114 firefighter Raymond Pollard, said officials.

Photo courtesy of the FDNY