Firefighter
Robert Parro
Engine8
Laid
to Rest
on October 11, 2001
Robert Parro - He Left for the Towers at the End of His Shift - October
2, 2001
Robert Parro, 35, of Levittown had been a firefighter for eight
years and "loved
it," according to his wife, Karen. He left for duty at Manhattan's Battalion
8 the night before the hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center and was
minutes from finishing his shift when the alarm sounded. He called his wife to
tell her that he was on his way to the fire. That was the last she heard from
him.
Karen Parro said she would tell their son, John, 4, that "Daddy was trying to
save people." A lifelong Long Islander, Parro was born in Bethpage, and he and
his three brothers and two sisters grew up in Levittown. He graduated from Division
High School in 1984 and was working as superintendant of a Babylon apartment
house when he got the call to the fire department. (Newsday Article)
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