Editing Denis Leary (section)

==Leary Firefighters Foundation==
{{Main|Leary Firefighters Foundation}}
On December 3, 1999, six [[firefighter]]s from Leary's hometown of Worcester were killed in the [[Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire]]. Among the dead were Leary's cousin Jerry Lucey, as well as Leary's close childhood friend, Lt. Tommy Spencer.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/denis-leary-firefighters-worcester-6-cold-storage-fire/ |title=Denis Leary, firefighters remember Worcester 6 on 23rd anniversary |date=3 December 2022 |website=CBS News}}</ref><ref name="smokeinterview"/> In response, the comedian founded the [[Leary Firefighters Foundation]]. Since its creation in the year 2000, the foundation has distributed over $2.5&nbsp;million ([[United States dollar|USD]]) to fire departments in the Worcester, Boston and New York City areas for equipment, training materials, new vehicles and new facilities. Leary won $125,000 for the foundation on the game show ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)#Special editions|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]''.

A separate fund run by Leary's foundation, the Fund for New York's Bravest, has distributed over $2&nbsp;million to the families of the 343 firemen killed in the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001, in addition to providing funding for necessities such as a new mobile command center, [[First responder|first-responder]] training, and a high-rise simulator for the [[New York City Fire Department]]'s training campus. As the foundation's president, Leary has been active in all of the fundraising. In the aftermath of [[Hurricane Katrina]] in New Orleans, Leary donated over a dozen boats to the [[New Orleans Fire Department]] to aid in rescue efforts in future disasters. The foundation also rebuilt entire NOLA firehouses.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rebirth: The New Orleans Firehouse Restoration Project |url=https://www.learyfirefighters.org/news/videos/rebirth-the-new-orleans-firehouse-restoration-project/ |website=The Leary Firefighters Foundation |access-date=June 14, 2019 |archive-date=December 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206042905/https://www.learyfirefighters.org/news/videos/rebirth-the-new-orleans-firehouse-restoration-project/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>