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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 ...
On November 5, 2007, a 40-foot-tall (12 m) bronze monument based on the photograph called To Lift A Nation and depicting three New York firefighters raising the flag over the ruins of the World Trade Center was dedicated at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Park in Emmitsburg, Maryland. [7]
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 ...
Soldiers' Memorial Tower; The Spirit of Life; Statue of Christopher Columbus (Buffalo, New York) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Newburgh, New York) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Yonkers, New York) Statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Statue of Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York) Statue of Lucille Ball (Celoron, New York)
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...