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PBA Pays Tribute to Valor, Heroism Displayed by Own ‘Finest of Finest’

By MARK TOOR
Posted 5/22/15

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association honored 51 members May 21 as “the Finest of the Finest,” including four who were seriously hurt on the job and one who was killed.

Police Officer Dennis Guerra died April 9, 2014, of injuries sustained when he and his partner, Rosa Rodriguez, responded to a fire April 6 on the 13th floor of a Coney Island housing project. When the elevator doors opened, the officers were overcome by toxic smoke.

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