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This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.
9-1-1 is an American procedural drama television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear.The series premiered on Fox and currently airs on ABC. [1] The series follows the lives of Los Angeles first responders: police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and dispatchers.
Robert "Bobby" Wade Nash (Peter Krause) is the Captain of Station 118 of the Los Angeles Fire Department and later Athena's husband. A recovering alcoholic, before arriving in Los Angeles Bobby lived in Minnesota where his wife and two children died in a fire caused by a faulty propane heater (which he had been using while he was drunk in an empty apartment of the building they were living in ...
The 911 center also assists with a geriatric pregnancy in a building's lobby, but the system outage delays help arriving and puts the mother at risk of dying. Maddie and the 911 tech guy make an FBI team look silly when they attend the call center after assuming it was hacked, while Bobby's fire safety talk leads to Harry doing something stupid ...
A "bucket brigade" works to clear rubble and debris after the September 11 attacks. The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center elicited a large response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers, resulting in a large loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed.
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, is the official name of the inquiry conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into the activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community in connection with the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Gander International Airport in Newfoundland, Canada, played host to 38 airliners, totaling 6,122 passengers and 473 crew, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon.. Operation Yellow Ribbon (French: Opération ruban jaune) was commenced by Canada to handle the diversion of civilian airline flights in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001 in the United States.