It was a Tuesday morning in September and Jean and Frank were busy trying to get their 10 kids off to school. Frank Palombo, a veteran firefighter, left the family home in Ridgewood, New Jersey, heading in to work in Brooklyn. He never returned. ↧ Siblings who lost their FDNY father on 9/11 describe the ‘deep vo... Donors gave to the Families of Freedom Fund, established by Scholarship America in the wake of the attacks, so Frank Palombo’s 10 children could attend college.