Firefighter
Jeffrey Giordano
Ladder 3
Memorial
Service was held
on October 13, 2001
He
Shared His Bounty His wife's beloved stepfather, clinging to
life in the burn center at New York Hospital, made Jeffrey Giordano
promise to become a firefighter. And so he spent 14 years at
Ladder Company 3 in the East Village, where he was decorated
for bravery last spring after rescuing a woman from a burning
apartment. Firefighter Giordano, 45, also became a devoted friend
of the burn center, where adults and children go to heal and
where his wife, Marie, worked. He took ice cream to the children
there, and endlessly raised money for the New York Firefighters
Burn Center Foundation, which buys equipment and contributed
$700,000 this year. On weekends, Firefighter Giordano loaded
his van with T-shirts to sell at firefighting conferences, often
taking his children — Victoria, 12; Nick, 9; and Alexandra,
6 — with him. That was for the foundation, too. He and his wife
met when he was 15 and she was 13. "I miss his arms around me,"
Mrs. Giordano said. "I thought we would grow old together."
On Jan. 22, the hospital will open a children's playroom in
the burn center. It will be named for Firefighter Giordano,
who sped to the World Trade Center in the battalion chief's
car on Sept. 11, even though it was his day off. Profile published
in THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 23, 2001.
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