Decorated Firefighter Was Avid Runner.

Nov. 27, 2001 At 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, Jeffrey John Giordano called his wife, Marie, from the firehouse to tell her to awaken the children, son Nicholas, and daughters, Victoria and Alexandra. He was going to be on TV with Larry Hoff of WB11 news in a fund-raising promotion benefiting the Firefighters Burn Center Foundation and the Widows and Orphans Fund, and he didn’t want his children to miss it. Then, shortly after 9 a.m., he called back to say he was on his way to the World Trade Center. That was the last time his wife spoke to him. Giordano joined the fire department in 1987 and was assigned to Ladder Co. 3 from the start. The highly decorated firefighter received the Albert Johnson Award for saving two people trapped in a blazing building, and the Life Saving Benevolent Society honored Giordano for diving into the East River to save a man from drowning. He ran daily, logging more than 50,000 miles, and participated in more than 15 marathons. --Compiled by Newsday n Island Advance

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