25 years on from 9/11: How New York’s firefighters paid the highest price on September 11

From Father Mychal Judge to the 343 firefighters who died, the FDNY’s losses reshaped a department and its enduring bond

The lifeless body of FDNY chaplain Fr Mychal Judge is borne from the World Trade Center North Tower by firefighters Christian Waugh and Zachary Vause; NYPD Lt William Cosgrove; civilian John Maguire, and FDNY EMT Kevin Allen on September 11, 2001. Picture: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

In the end, there were 400 funerals or memorials for FDNY service members in the year after 9/11.

Of the 2,753 victims of the terror attack in New York in 2001, no organisation bore as much of a human cost as the city’s fire department.