Injured Officer Walking Again After Sandy Tree Fall
Bob Franco faces long recovery, but he's 'bound and determined to get back to the way things were.'
Wayne Police Officer Bob Franco is walking. Franco is rehabilitating from the severe spinal cord injury he suffered during Superstorm Sandy. “I’m walking, although it’s unsteady, I’m walking, which I’m very happy for,” Franco said in a telephone interview Monday evening from his rehab center's bed. “I’m advancing every day and won’t accept anything less.” Franco, 42, was pinned under a tree that fell on his patrol car at Fire Co. 5 on Lake Drive West Oct. 29, while responding to the scene of a ruptured gas line on the street. Franco pulled up to speak to Assistant Company Chief John Neukum to determine if the road needed to be closed. Moments later, the tree fell on both his and Neukem's vehicles. It took paramedics an hour to remove …
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