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Billy Burke (firefighter) is a member of the following lists: People from New York City, 1945 births and 2001 deaths.

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William Burke was a Fire Captain with the Fire Department of New York, who died during the September 11 attacks in 2001. Burke died when he chose to stay with stranded civilians, which his colleagues believe he knew would cost him his life. On September 11, 2001, Burke and his crew were inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center, when he encountered Ed Beyea, a paraplegic man he realized could not be evacuated before the building collapsed. Abe Zelmanowitz, a friend of the man, had chosen to stay with him. Burke told a younger firefighter standing by that he would take over, and the younger firefighter should leave.