Mr Mark Batista's daughter survived. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Mr Batista’s wife, Mrs Lenin Batista, posted a message to friends and family on Instagram. “I feel lost, heartbroken and very afraid,” she wrote in Spanish.
On Sunday morning, Ms Janelle Rivera, a veteran emergency service technician and Mr Batista’s longtime friend, had not yet heard about his drowning, she said later. As she sat down to drink her coffee, she picked up her phone and saw she had dozens of unread messages. She opened one and saw a photo of Mr Batista along with a picture of a purple and black striped flag.
They were the colours of the mourning bunting, a pleated fabric drape that hangs over a firehouse to signify the death of a member.She thought of how she met Mr Batista when he worked at EMS Station 45 in Queens. She remembered the near-fatal motorcycle accident Mr Batista was in, just a few years ago, the one that made him rethink how he spent his time in the world.Ms Rivera also recalled running into Mr Batista about a month ago at Fire Department headquarters in Brooklyn.
“That his wife had to watch him go into that water and not come out, it kills me,” she added. “The life of his daughter is the result of his heroism, and that is everything a wife and mother could ever ask for.” NYTIMES
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