Weissman's Brother Thanks Emergency Services Workers

Gabe Weissman, brother of fallen Alexandria paramedic Joshua Weissman, thanked first-responders and emergency services workers from the city and beyond in a statement made prior to his brother’s wake Wednesday evening at Everly-Wheatley Funeral Home on Braddock Road.

“During the trials of the past few days, as we’re beginning to comprehend and adjust to this new reality, the hundreds in the Alexandria Fire Department and with other emergency units from near and far have shown us with their steadfastness and compassion why Josh loved what he did so much," Gabe Weissman said. 

“If it’s possible to take anything positive out of something so tragic, it would be how thankful we feel that there are people like Josh who are unflinchingly there in the most trying of times for those they know and those they don’t. All of us should be thankful for those like him.” 

Gabe Weissman said emergency services workers from his brother’s first volunteer fire department in Cayuga Heights, N.Y., and others in Central New York to those in the Washington, D.C. region “have been there” for his family since his brother while responding to a car fire on Feb. 8.

“We’ll be forever grateful,” he said.

Joshua Weissman, a native of Ithaca, N.Y., is survived by wife Rebecca; his parents, Edward and Frances Weissman; and his brother and sister-in-law Gabe and Jessica Weissman.

Joshua Weissman’s wake is scheduled to run from 5 p.m. to midnight. His funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at Beth El Hebrew Congregation on Seminary Road.

The memorial processional and service is expected to bring more than 200 fire vehicles with equipment and 3,000 additional cars into the city. There will be street closures beginning at 10 a.m. and continuing throughout the day.

Alexandria City Public Schools announced .

To read Joshua Weissman’s obituary from the Ithaca Journal, click here. 

At the request of the Weissman family, in lieu of flowers, donations and condolences may be sent to:

Joshua A. Weissman Memorial Fund

c/o Alexandria Firefighters, Inc - IAFF Local 2141

4600 Duke Street, Suite 429,
Alexandria, VA 22304