FDNY Comrade Braved Injury To Aid His Pals

Army reservist Dan Swift saved another soldier's life and then went to help fellow city firefighter Chris Engeldrum when a car bomb ripped apart their Humvee outside Baghdad.

"I tried to help, but I lost consciousness," the 24-year-old firefighter told his buddies in a phone call to Ladder Company 43 in East Harlem yesterday.

Swift, a 24-year-old bachelor, also called his mom, Kate Daly, in upstate Carmel.

"My son called to let me know he was injured," she told The Post.

"He told me his Humvee blew up . . . I didn't know if he was missing a limb or what."

He told her that after he got out of the gutted Humvee, he couldn't see with one eye.

But he tried to help others