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📅 Published: August 16, 2025

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He was an EMT, bringing in patients.

Within months it went from flirtation to dating — and, within about a year, marriage.

David Burke just had that magnetic effect on her, Rosemarie Burke recalled Wednesday. “He was just such a nice guy,” she said. “And, I liked the uniform. ”
A devoted husband and father, a dedicated EMS official with the FDNY, where he worked for almost four decades, developing critical programs for the department, David Burke died July 31 at his home in West Babylon following a brief but fierce battle with 9/11-related cancer.

He was 61. “He was an amazing, amazing man,” Rosemarie said. “He was a family man.

He loved his children very much.

He gave his all to everybody.

I know they always say, ‘Oh, he was so amazing, so wonderful. ‘ But this man?

He really was. ”
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A native of Plainview, the youngest of five children born to Louis and Rhoda Burke, David Louis Burke worked extensively at the collapsed World Trade Center site as part of rescue and recovery efforts after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Rosemarie Burke said.

Burke also was a volunteer for more than two decades with the West Babylon Fire Department, having served before that as a volunteer in Jericho.

A social media post from the FDNY noting Burke’s death said: “This member bravely served this Department protecting life and property in the rescue and recovery at Manhattan Box 5-5-8087 World Trade Center. ”
“He was an impactful human being,” said Yonatan Klein, deputy chief of FDNY’s EMS operation, who served with Burke, who retired in June as an FDNY deputy chief of EMS Division 9 after 37 years.