Funeral arrangements have been set for Philadelphia Fire Department Capt. Michael Goodwin, 53, who was killed in the line of duty Saturday night while battling a blaze at a Queen Village fabric shop.

Relatives, friends, members of Philadelphia Fire Department, IAFF Local 22 and all first responders are invited to celebrate Capt. Goodwin’s life at the John F. Givnish Funeral Home located at 10975 Academy Rd.

Services will be held Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

Capt. Goodwin’s funeral is set for noon on Thursday at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church located at 2139 E. Cumberland St. He will then be buried at Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, Pa.

His family is asking that mourners in lieu of flowers send memorial contributions to the Firefighters Widow Fund, addressed c/o Local 22, 415 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa., 19123.

An online memorial page has also been set up for the departed veteran here.

Mayor Michael Nutter yesterday ordered all city flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days in Goodwin’s honor and Gov. Tom Corbett said today all state flags in the Capitol Complex and at state buildings located in Philadelphia County will also fly at half-staff to observe his passing. They will remain at half-staff until sundown on Wednesday, the day of Capt. Goodwin’s burial.

Goodwin is reportedly being posthumously promoted to Battalion Chief.

The 29-year veteran was killed as he fought a three-alarm fire at Jack B. Fabrics located at 748 S. 4th Street.

Officials said the building’s third-floor roof gave way, followed by the second floor and several walls.

The collapse also injured firefighter Andrew Godlewski, 28, who was burned while trying to save Goodwin, according to authorities.

Godlewski was released from the hospital yesterday.

Firefighters and paramedics union Local 22 is holding a tribute tomorrow at noon in front of City Hall.

The memorial was originally slated to observe the deaths of firefighters Daniel Sweeney and Lt. Robert Neary, who were both killed last April in the wall collapse of a furniture store adjacent to a five-alarm Kensington warehouse fire.

The service has since been revised to include Capt. Goodwin, as well.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia firefighters mourned the loss of one of their own in the line of duty for the third time in less than a year, saluting the body of a veteran captain as it was carried from the ruins of a three-story building that collapsed underneath him during a blaze.

At an emotional news conference late Saturday after the fire in the city’s Fabric Row section was extinguished, Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers told reporters that the victim, 53-year-old Capt. Michael Goodwin, was his friend and “a ladder man. A firefighter’s firefighter.”

“He’s the kind of guy who looked out for his folks — a big guy,” Ayers said. Goodwin had been with the department for 29 years.

A colleague of the fallen firefighter, 28-year-old Andrew Godlinski, was burned on his hands while trying to rescue his comrade and is recovering, officials said.

The loss came as the Fire Department prepared to mark a year since an April 9 blaze at a warehouse that killed Capt. Robert Neary, 59, and Daniel Sweeney, 25. They also died in a collapse, which came as they inspected an adjacent building.

“We have a department that is wounded,” Ayers said. “We have scars that are fresh, and indeed they have now been reopened.”

Saturday’s fire appeared to have started in a fabric store downstairs before spreading to upstairs apartments and a neighboring boutique, the store’s owner said. The proprietors of both stores told The Philadelphia Inquirer that everyone in both buildings at the time of the fire managed to escape.

The fire’s cause wasn’t immediately known, but Bruce Blumenthal, the owner of Jack B. Fabrics, said he believes it started in a wall and may have been electrical in nature.

Blumenthal said he smelled smoke coming from the basement around 5 p.m. and found a box of collars and cuffs on fire. He tried to put the flames out with an extinguisher, to no avail.

Goodwin was on the roof of the building when it collapsed, trapping him inside. Godlinski tried to rescue him before a second-floor roof and two walls also collapsed, officials said.

Goodwin is survived by a wife and two grown children, Ayers said.