FDNY firefighter transferred to rehab center

Eugene "Gene" Stolowski, a New York City firefighter who was critically injured on Jan. 23 after plunging from a burning building in the Bronx, was transferred Tuesday from New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, N.J. He is expected to be there for 6-12 months Stolowski, 33, and his wife Brigid, live in the Village of Florida, where he has been a volunteer with the Florida Fire Department and Rescue Squad for the last three years. Florida fire officials are acting as liasons for the fund-raising effort: "Heroes Fund, c/o Uniformed Fire Fighters Associatiion, 204 East 23rd Street, New York, NY l00l0. Get-well cards can be sent to the Florida Fire Station, 19 South Main Street, Florida, NY l0921. On March ll, the Florida Fire District will hold a blood drive in Stolowsk's honor. For further information, call Lona Olejniczak at 651-4310.