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Firehouse, Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10, is a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, located at 124 Liberty Street across from the World Trade Center site and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in the Financial District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is known for being the first fire station to ...
The New York State Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Albany, New York is dedicated to the New York firefighters who have died in the line of duty. Governor of New York George Pataki officially dedicated the memorial on October 5, 1998. It features a 54-foot (16 m) by 15-foot (4.6 m) gray granite wall, with 2,312 names permanently etched into the ...
At the 51st State Firemen's Convention held in Hudson in 1923, a resolution signed by the Presidents and Secretaries of both the Volunteer Firemen's Association and the Exempt Firemen's Association of the City of New York said that if the State Association of the Firemen's Home would authorize the erection of a suitable building for a museum ...
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) on Wednesday added 43 names of firefighters who died from 9/11-related illnesses to the department’s World Trade Center Memorial Wall ahead of next week ...
Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial (1921), Wallace, Idaho; Memorial honoring firefighters fallen in the 1910 Stockyard fire, at the Union Stock Yard Gate, Chicago, Illinois; Indiana Law Enforcement and Firefighters Memorial (2001), Indianapolis, Indiana; National Fallen Firefighters Memorial (1981), Emmitsburg, Maryland
Murphy, an Irish nurse who treated injured firefighters after 9/11 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, dedicated the site to her old friend Mychal Judge, a Franciscan Friar and Chaplin of the New ...
Attended by the mayor, the fire commissioner and thousands of firefighters, the ceremony gained even greater significance after the September 11 attacks of 2001. 343 New York firefighters died responding to the attacks and collapse of the World Trade Center. In the weeks that followed, the memorial became a shrine for those firefighters, an ...
The FDNY's motto is "New York's Bravest" for fire, and "New York's Best" for EMS. The FDNY serves more than 8.5 million residents within a 302-square-mile (780 km 2) area. [9] The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, [10] and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. [11]