Vincent Kane was a city police officer for two years before switching to the New York City Fire Department 11 years ago. Kane, 37, of Manhattan, was in Tower Two of the World Trade Center when it collapsed.
A member of Engine Co. 22 in Manhattan, he followed in both of his parents' footsteps - his father, Vincent Kane, was a city firefighter who retired in 1988 and his mother, Joan, is retired from the city police department's youth division. His parents live in Breezy Point, Queens, where Kane grew up.
Kane graduated from Xaverian High School in Brooklyn and in 1986 earned a business degree from Marist College in Poughkeepsie. "He played in a college band and loved music," his mother said. "He played classic rock on the guitar."
Vinnie first became a firefighter at 17 when he joined the Rockaway Point Volunteer Fire Department. On East 80th where he lived he was nicknamed “The Mayor” by his neighbors who sometimes could hear guitar playing coming from his apartment late at night. He kept a second guitar in his locker at the firehouse.
He was found on Thanksgiving night, 2001, with fellow Engine 22 firefighter Michael Elferis.