Robert Lane, 28, was a “big guy with a magnetic smile.” When he joined the FDNY in 1998, it was a dream come true. He loved to cook. When he would go out for dinner, he’d study the food and then later try to replicate it back at the firehouse.
He was also a self-taught mechanic with a souped-up 1983 Pontiac Grand Prix that he was planning to race on a track in New Jersey.
Robert Lane he was my friend as I was kid living on Broome street. Bobby, was kid who love his “Rock and Roll” like Metallica, Iron Maiden and more. He inspired me to become a fireman. But I know I Surely let him down by not making it into the FDNY. I’m not going to forget him and his junkie car he thinks was the “Beast”.