FDNY firefighter Steven Pollard was killed in a fall from...

FDNY firefighter Steven Pollard was killed in a fall from the Mill Basin Bridge in Brooklyn Sunday night. Credit: FDNY via Twitter

An FDNY firefighter died Sunday night after falling more than 50 feet from a bridge in Brooklyn, officials said. 

Probationary firefighter Steven Pollard, 30, of Ladder Company 170 in Canarsie, was responding to a two-car crash on the Belt Parkway's Mill Basin bridge at about 10 p.m., officials said. He and other members were on the eastbound side of the roadway and needed to cross over to the other side to reach the victims, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.

As Pollard was crossing, he slipped through a gap between the two sides and fell about 52 feet, Nigro said.

He was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital Center. 

Pollard, who had been on the job for a year and a half, comes from a family of FDNY firefighters, Nigro said. His father is a retired firefighter from Ladder Company 102 in Bedford-Stuyvesant and his brother is an active member at Ladder Company 114 in Sunset Park.

“It's a terrible loss for the department, to lose a member just at the beginning of his career like this is devastating to us,” Nigro said at the hospital.

The commissioner was joined by Mayor Bill de Blasio at the hospital early Monday. 

“(Pollard) devoted his life to the people of our city, like his brother, like his dad, he was trying to do such a good and important thing, and it’s just really painful,” de Blasio said.

Pollard is the 1,151st member of the FDNY to die in the line of duty, Nigro said.

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