LARRY CELONA and RITA DELFINER
NY Post Online
October 25, 2001 -- Two brothers, one a firefighter and one a police officer, will be saluted together tomorrow as World Trade Center heroes, who lived a shared dream of helping others.
The Finest and the Bravest will gather to honor Officer Thomas Langone, 39, of Emergency Service Truck 10 in Queens and firefighter Peter Langone, 41, of Engine 252 in Brooklyn.
"They were brothers and we decided they should be remembered together," Peter's wife, Terri, said yesterday of the memorial service to be held on Long Island at St. Aidan's Church in Williston Park.
The brothers also had in common a deep love for their families and for the jobs they chose.
Tommy Langone grew up knowing he'd be a police officer - and had his heart set on becoming an Emergency Service cop.
He met his goal - and more.
"Tommy was one of the leading instructors for emergency-service training," said fellow officer Randy Miller, adding Langone also wrote the how-to on rescuing "jumpers" who threaten to leap from buildings or bridges.
He was also one of the department's 20 snipers and could hit a target at 1,000 yards.
Tommy Langone, who was also a chief in the Roslyn Volunteer Fire Department and gave a fire-prevention class at a local nursery school, never thought about medals, said his wife, JoAnn.
"Tommy was a guy who just wanted to help people," she said. "He didn't care if they were rich or poor, black or white, a cop or a civilian. He passed on doing what he wanted to do, saving people."
He was very proud of his daughter, Caitlin, 12 and his son, Brian, 10 - and insisted there be only one TV in the house "because Tommy felt TV was family time" and they should all be together when they watched.
When his wife of 15 years heard that the Twin Towers were under attack, "I knew Tommy would be there trying to save people," she said.
He was last seen on a 20th-floor stairway in the south tower.
JoAnn says she was told about a young cop who was at the trade center that morning. He was shaken and couldn't see because of the smoke.
Later, the grateful cop told other officers about a gray-haired, skinny ESU cop who brought him out of the building, calmed him down and then ran back in to save people.
The description of the veteran cop fits Tommy Langone.
"I'd like to meet that cop," JoAnn Langone said.
The last time Terri Langone heard her husband Peter's voice was Sept. 11 when he called her and said "Turn on the TV. I'm going to the job," she said.
"My husband always said if someone is in there [a fire], you're going to go in and get him even if it means your life," she said.
"You never think it's going to happen to you," his wife of 11 years added softly.
Peter, a firefighter for 141/2 years and before that a police officer for 11/2 years, was generous, hardworking and "brutally honest, with a heart of gold," his wife said.
He adored their daughters, Nikki, 9, and Karli, 5, and "loved to go swimming with the girls. He always took them to the pool."
The brothers are also survived by their mother, Sheila, and their sisters, Joanne and Rosemary.
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