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Firefighters to honor 5 terrorism victims By JOHN KRYGER THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: May 28, 2002) RAMAPO — Five county volunteer firefighters who were killed in the World Trade Center attack will be among those remembered Sunday at the annual Rockland Firefighters' All-Faiths Memorial Service. The 7 p.m. ceremony honors all deceased volunteers, both active and retired, who died between April 2001 and last month. It will take place at the firefighters monument outside the entrance to the county Fire Training Center off Pomona Road. Three of the volunteers, Calixto "Charlie" Anaya, Andrew Fredericks and Gregory Sikorsky, were also New York City firefighters. Anaya, who was working in Engine Co. 4 in lower Manhattan, was a volunteer with the Suffern fire department. Fredericks, who was assigned to Squad Co. 18 in Greenwich Village, was a member of the Suffern fire department and a nationally known instructor with the county Fire Training Center. Sikorsky, who worked in Squad Co. 41 in the Bronx, was a volunteer with the Hillcrest fire department. Sgt. John Coughlin, who worked in the elite New York City Police Department Emergency Services Unit, was a volunteer with the Thiells fire department. Welles Crowther was a volunteer with Empire H&L Co. of the Nyack fire department. He was an equities trader for Sandler O'Neill & Partners on the 104th floor of Tower 2. The guest speakers will be the Rev. Warren Brandt, chaplain of S.W. Johnson Steam Fire Engine Co. 1 of Garnerville, and retired FDNY Lt. Arthur Smith of Congers. Brandt, who serves both Trinity United Methodist Church in Stony Point and Garnerville United Methodist Church, is retiring from both churches this year. Smith, the former superintendent of the New York Fire Patrol of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters, is the chief instructor at the county Fire Training Center. He will speak as the head of the county's Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team. "We don't list the individual names of our department firefighters in the program or name them in the memorial," said Stuart Gates, a lay chaplain with the Rockland County Volunteer Firemen's Association. "But I have a feeling that the Rev. Brandt will be mentioning our fallen firefighters at the World Trade Center in his talk this year," Gates added. Gates and lay chaplain Frank Knower of the Tappan fire department have been coordinating the ceremony for years. The memorial will include color guards and representatives from various fire departments holding founding anniversaries this year. It will conclude with the placing of carnations into a large firefighter Maltese cross badge by representatives of the county's 26 volunteer departments and ladies' auxiliaries. Refreshments will be served inside the training center by the Rockland County Volunteer Firemen's Ladies Auxiliary at the end of the service. The memorial is open to the public and there is ample parking on the training center grounds