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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. [8] The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, [9] and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. [10]
The Concert for New York City was a benefit concert that took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City in response to the September 11 attacks.Aside from performing for charity, the concert honored the first responders from the New York City Fire Department and New York City Police Department, their families, and those lost in the attacks and those who had worked in the ongoing rescue ...
1968. (1968) –2001. (2001) Rank. Chief of Department. Peter James Ganci Jr. (October 27, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was a career firefighter in the New York City Fire Department killed in the September 11 attacks. At the time of the attacks, he held the rank of Chief of Department, the highest ranking uniformed fire officer in the department.
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. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site " Ground Zero ", while rescue personnel ...
Daniel Thomas Suhr (August 21, 1964 – September 11, 2001) [2] was an American New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighter who was killed when a victim falling from the South Tower landed on him during the September 11 attacks. [3] He was the first firefighter to be killed while responding to the attacks on the Twin Towers. [4][5][6]
Bob Beckwith. Robert Beckwith (April 16, 1932 – February 4, 2024) was an American firefighter. As a member of the New York City Fire Department, he became well known to the American public after he stood next to President George W. Bush as Bush gave a speech at the ruins of the World Trade Center after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Orio Joseph Palmer (March 2, 1956 – September 11, 2001) was a Battalion Chief of the New York City Fire Department who died while rescuing civilians trapped inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. [2][3][1] Palmer led the team of firefighters that reached the 78th floor of the South Tower, the floor where the plane had struck the ...
8:50: Local New York cable television channel NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan begins that channel's coverage of the incident. 8:50: Local New York radio station WABC news anchor George Weber broadcasts that station's first report of the incident. 8:50–8:54 (approx.): As it nears the border of West Virginia and Ohio, Flight 77 is hijacked.