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A wake and funeral have been scheduled for the FDNY firefighter who died a day after battling a heavy blaze in Far Rockaway.
The wake for Jesse Gerhard, 33, will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Frederick J. Chapey & Sons Funeral Home in Islip.
The funeral will take place at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Bay Shore.
Gerhard, of Long Beach, was a seven-year veteran of the department assigned to Ladder Company 134 in Far Rockaway. He collapsed at the firehouse Wednesday after fighting the house fire a day earlier. He was rushed to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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