Robert Cordice, 28, was “always on the move.” A New York City police officer from 1994 until he joined the FDNY in 1997, he had transferred into Squad 1 just two weeks before 9/11 because he “wanted to be in the thick of the smoke.”
Already chosen to be in the 2002 Fire Department calendar, his beefcake shot had him sitting on the famous Wall St. bronze bull in his bunker pants. One friend remembers Rob as “always having a smile on his face. He was a very outgoing person who liked to laugh, liked to have fun.