MARK STAMEY
New York Post Online

Photo Courtesy New York Post Online GOING HOME: Hero firefighter Joseph Vosilla, set to go home after two months in the hospital, gets moral support yesterday from fellow fireman Andrew Gemmell (left) and Capt. Ralph Gismondi. - Rick Dembow

August 15, 2001 -- Firefighter Joseph Vosilla - critically injured in a horrific Father's Day blaze - gets out of the hospital today, encouraged about his own progress but still grieving for three colleagues who died in the inferno.

His terrible injuries caused him less pain, he said, than the June 17 deaths of fellow firefighters Brian Fahey, Harry Ford and John Downing.

"Losing brothers is the worst thing about this job," Vosilla told The Post yesterday at Elmhurst Hospital. "It was the worst thing about that day."

The 41-year-old Vosilla was crushed by burning debris from an explosion and fire at an Astoria, Queens, hardware store - blows that broke his pelvis and injured nearly every organ in his body.

"I felt everybody's prayers and every day I got stronger," he said. "It was rougher for my family."

The blaze, he said, "was a small fire, but a bad accident and a big, big tragedy."