Firefighter Timothy Klein, RIP

Firefighter Timothy Klein paid the ultimate price for living a life of service, dying in a Brooklyn blaze Sunday. He was 31. As flames swept through the second floor, a ceiling collapsed, sending firefighters leaping from windows. Klein, a six-year FDNY veteran, didn’t get out in time.

“Everybody was running back inside their houses to get away from” the blaze, said local Clara McKenley. Yet Klein and his comrades did their duty and ran toward it.

He grew up dreaming of following his dad and uncles into the FDNY, a firefighter cousin told The Post, and got his wish by joining Ladder Co. 170. He’s survived by his father Patrick, mother Diane and three sisters.

In the eulogy for fellow firefighter Steven Pollard, killed on duty in 2019, Timothy Klein himself noted: He “died not thinking of himself but trying to help others. We lost a true hero . . . You will never be forgotten.”

Amen, again. May he rest in peace.