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Michael Davidson and his wife, Eileen, were reveling in the family’s sudden reversal of fortune the night before he was killed fighting a fire for the FDNY, she recalled Saturday.

Eileen’s second bout with cancer had been cured. The rare lung disorder that had sickened their youngest child, Amy, was at last improving. The couple had finally settled into a dream home in Floral Park.

“We were ready to enjoy the life that we built together. And so we had this moment when it hit us,” she said. “We literally high-fived one another in the kitchen — on the last night with my husband. ‘We did it. We made it.’ ”

That was March 22, 2018. On March 23, Davidson — a 15-year veteran firefighter and a Floral Park father of three girls and a boy — died after being felled by a fire beneath a shuttered jazz club being used for the Edward Norton movie "Motherless Brooklyn."

At a ceremony Saturday to honor Davidson inside his Harlem firehouse, hundreds of firefighters saluted him and his family, including his retired firefighter dad, firefighter brother, the four young children and widow, as the department dedicated a plaque in his memory.

“Today, we make Mike a permanent part of the history of this city,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said, adding: “We are saying that his name must be remembered — that to understand this place, we also have to know who he was.”

De Blasio then turned to Davidson’s parents: “Thank you for raising a hero.”

Davidson, 37, was assigned to be the nozzle man the night of the fire, exactly a year ago, in the cellar of 773 St. Nicholas Ave., with Harlem’s Engine Company 69.

Holding the nozzle to direct the stream of water is the firefighting job closest to the blaze — and the danger.

He was not able to escape after being called to retreat because the situation was too dangerous. Fellow firefighters soon realized Davidson was missing, went back in and found him unconscious.

On Saturday, a banner with his photograph hung inside the firehouse, along with his battered jacket, a nozzle and a cross. Davidson was posthumously promoted to lieutenant.

Eileen Davidson fought back tears as she described the hole left in her family’s life by the death of her husband — whom she met at 21 when she was stricken with cancer and bald from chemotherapy.

“He would sit with me when I was too sick to move,” she said, adding: “He would make me laugh when I wanted to cry. And he would make me feel beautiful when I was terrified to look at my own reflection.”

She recalled family dance parties, Christmases and barbecues and home renovations, and her husband dressing up as Spider-Man and boosting neighborhood kids up onto the rig, the kids cheering when they blasted the horn.

“Heaven needed a hero,” she told her own children, 8,7, 4, and 2, Saturday through tears. “Your daddy was called to do greater jobs in heaven than he could do here on Earth.”