Newsday
SUFFOLK, N.Y. — A fire department chaplain who offered spiritual guidance to his fellow volunteers collapsed outside a burning bagel cafe in Huntington Station Wednesday and died after being rushed to a hospital, according to officials.
Richard Holst, 60, a 31-year member of the Huntington Manor Fire Department and head of the state’s fire chaplain association, who visited the sick and consoled the bereaved, collapsed minutes after he reported the cafe fire.
Wednesday, firefighters in T-shirts bearing the department logo gathered at the Huntington Station home Holst shared with his wife, Noreen, a few minutes’ drive from the heavily damaged cafe, where fire officials looked for the cause of a blaze that ripped through the business before dawn.
Full story: Holst, who no longer fought fires, had been at the firehouse following a previous call