EMT Victim Mourned One Year After WTC
JAMIE SCHRAM
Courtesy NEW YORK POST
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September 15, 2002 -- Paramedic Carlos Lillo, one of only two city EMS paramedics to die in last year's World Trade Center attacks, was remembered yesterday as a wonderful husband by his wife, who miraculously survived the attack.
"He was my life. He was my everything," Cecelia Lillo said during funeral services.
Carlos, 37, rushed to the Twin Towers as soon as the first plane struck.
He was saving lives in the north tower when it collapsed. His wife, an administrator for the Port Authority, managed to escape from the 64th floor of the south tower, despite some injuries.
His brother Cesar said Carlos, who loved his wife more than anything, must have been frantic as he tried to help victims.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani were among the hundreds of mourners who paid their respects at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church in Deer Park, L.I.
Giuliani greeted family members with kisses and kind words.
At least 200 people, including EMTs, paramedics, firefighters and family members, also attended the funeral.
Yesterday's service wasn't the first for Carlos. In May, emergency medical technicians and paramedics from as far away as Canada and Boston came to lower Manhattan to honor him and the other FDNY paramedic to die in the terror attack, Ricardo Quinn.
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