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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 ...
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 ...
New York State Fallen Firefighters Memorial; New York State Women Veterans Memorial; Nott Memorial; O. Oriskany Battlefield State Historic Site; P.
1891 monument in Hoboken, New Jersey. The list of firefighting monuments and memorials covers firefighters' contributions, and some memorials to other fire victims, such as the mass memorial to unknown victims of the 1871 Peshtigo fire, which caused the greatest loss of life of any fire in the United States.
KINSALE, Ireland — Three days and 225 miles later, a group of almost 100 serving and retired firefighters from New York and Ireland cycled into a garden of remembrance Wednesday to the sounds of ...
Elderly spouses of cops, firefighters and other New York City workers who died in the line of duty are being told they will have to start paying for health insurance if they opt out of a new ...
Fallen Firefighters Memorial may refer to: Fallen Firefighters Memorial, a sculpture group by Hai Ying Wu in Seattle, Washington; IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial, in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Los Angeles Fallen Firefighters Memorial, in Los Angeles, California; National Fallen Firefighters Memorial, in Emmitsburg, Maryland; New York State ...
Sep. 13—PLATTSBURGH — As the country reflected on the 9/11 attacks 20th anniversary Saturday, Jamie Schwartz of the Plattsburgh City Fire Department said it is more important now than ever to ...