Thousands of mourners are filling a Queens church — and lining the streets outside — Friday to remember Timothy Klein, the 31-year-old FDNY veteran from a family of firefighters who died in a ceiling collapse while battling a house blaze this week.
Klein died in the line of duty Sunday when the second-floor ceiling of the Brooklyn house collapsed. He was the second FDNY member from Ladder Company 170 killed in the line of duty in just over three years. Watch his funeral service live in the player above starting at 11 a.m. courtesy of the FDNY.
Klein served the department for more than six years, following
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