The firefighter deaths on Sept. 11 amounted to more than a third of the approximately 1,000 emergency personnel at the scene. BY PATRICK J. KIGER At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six minutes later, the first contingent of New York City firefighters—two […]
Posted: May 31, 2019 01:13 PM FOX NEWS – About 17 and a half years after the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center, first responders are finally getting their own tribute at the Memorial Plaza on the Ground Zero site. The stones are inlaid and bound with strips of steel salvaged from the […]
By KAREN MATTHEWS ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 30, 2019 | 4:00 PM NEW YORK Family members of recovery workers who died after digging through smoldering ruins joined city officials Thursday at a dedication ceremony for a new section of the Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. They were joined by recovery workers who themselves […]
The Memorial Glade honors rescue and recovery workers who are sick or died from exposure to 9/11-related toxins By Zoe Rosenberg May 31, 2019 The memorial honoring the thousands of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers who are sick or died from exposure to toxins in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks opened in lower Manhattan on […]
By Mark D. Stein | stein@siadvance.com The legislation calls for a moment of silence and a conversation about the tragic events that unfolded, locally and nationally. “It’s hard to imagine that almost 18 years have passed since the horrific [Sept. 11] terrorist attacks that stole the lives of thousands of innocent people in New York […]
Posted by LET Staff | May 24, 2019 TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey firefighters who contracted illnesses from volunteering at ground zero on 9/11 won’t receive the health benefits they need. Why? Because they weren’t on the clock at that time. Not only did these brave men and women step up to help our country when it needed […]
By Susan Edelman and Sara Dorn May 18, 2019 | 8:27pm An FDNY firefighter in this iconic 9/11 photo is suing the department and its black fraternal group for racial discrimination, claiming he was barred from an honorary post because he’s white. Lt. Daniel McWilliams says the former head of the Vulcan Society told him he couldn’t be a flag […]
New York City’s Bravest gathered Thursday to welcome 187 probationary firefighters to the ranks. Family, friends, and loved ones celebrated the accomplishment of completing eighteen weeks of training at the Fire Academy. “It means a lot, it means the world that they are all here to support me for this,” said Aric Tegtmeier, one of […]
Sarah Berger | @sarahelizberger CNBC.com In October 2018, an emotional pitch by three kids trying to turn their late father’s invention into a business so deeply resonated with “Shark Tank” viewers, that the siblings sold out all of their company’s inventory within minutes of the episode airing. Now the young entrepreneurs have signed a licensing deal with […]
MAY 10, 2019 – 4:21 PM Original story credit NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — The NYPD held a ceremony Friday to honor officers who had died of September 11-related illnesses. During the ceremony, the names of 47 fallen NYPD officers who worked at Ground Zero following the fall of the twin towers were added to a […]