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Neighbors mourn firefighter Beddia

Robert Beddia's prized black Alfa Romeo sat parked in his Staten Island driveway Sunday with repairs to its right mirror still under way, one of the many projects the fallen firefighter will never finish.

Neighbor Ralph Venturino had promised to fix it, and so he did, one day after his friend died battling a seven-alarm blaze near Ground Zero.

"I told him, 'I'm going to fix it,'" said...

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