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Funeral arrangements have been set for the fallen Bravest who died after plummeting off a Belt Parkway bridge while responding to the scene of a car wreck.

The wake for 30-year-old FDNY firefighter Steven Pollard will be held on Wednesday from 7 pm to 9 pm and on Thursday from 2 pm to 4 pm and from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Marine Park Funeral Home on Quentin Road in Brooklyn.

The funeral mass will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday at the Good Shepherd R.C. Church on Batchelder Street in Sheepshead Bay.

A committal service will follow at the Green-Wood Crematory Chapel inside Green-Wood Cemetery.

Pollard, who had less than two years on the job and was assigned to Ladder Co. 170 in Canarsie, died Sunday night after arriving at the scene of a car crash on the Mill Basin Bridge.

The firefighter tried to cross over a set of Jersey barriers separated by a 3-foot gap on the newly built span to reach two injured crash victims when he slipped through the space and plunged 52 feet to the ground below.

He died a short time later at Kings County Hospital.

Pollard comes from an FDNY family.

His father, Ray, is a retired member of Ladder Co. 102 in Bedford-Stuyvesant and his brother, Ray Jr. is an active member of Ladder Co. 114 in Sunset Park.

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