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Fallen NY Firefighter William P. Moon II Honored as Organ Donor and Public Servant

During 2022, William P. Moon II, a 21-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), died after falling 20 feet inside his firehouse. On December 12, the firefighter was preparing for a drill at the FDNY station located in Sterling Place (Brooklyn) when he fell about 20 feet and suffered a fatal injury. serious head injury.

Days later, his relatives and the population of New York learned that Moon, 47, would survive his injuries. “Firefighter Moon was a dedicated public server, who spent more than two decades saving the lives of New Yorkers and will continue to do so after his passingadded Mayor Adams during December of that year.

Almost eight months after his death, his wife, Kristina Moon, urged the citizens of the Big Apple to donate organs to save lives, as her husband was able to do after his death, since he had made the decision to Donate your organs to save other people’s lives.

One of the cases that saved people’s lives because of the Moon family’s decision was that of Lt. Terrence Jordan, 64, who was on his deathbed with multiple respiratory symptoms caused by the smoke and dust cloud on September 11, but now he has both of Moon’s lungs in his chest.

Leonard Acan, president, the federally designated non-profit organization that oversees organ donations, stated in an interview for the New York Post that Moon is one of the first person organ donors, as the 20% who Express your wishes to relatives in case of unexpected death. “His family did not have to make the decision, because he had already expressed that desire before,” the president told the Post.

Moon was registered as an organ donor in the state of New York, marking it on his driver’s license, and urged on several occasions in his life to do the same. Now, on June 7, he will be honored at the FDNY Medal Day ceremony.

The department will appear with his widow, who has become an advocate for organ donation, at a ceremony to award the first Billy Moon Living Medal. “I think it’s such a beautiful way to honor Billy’s legacy, and for his name to be forever a part of the FDNY,” Kristina Moon said.

With information from New York Post

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