Remembering 9/11 and the Three Thousand

Today, alongside our US colleagues at Ferno EMS, we remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks and those first responders from the fire, police and ambulance service and all the Good Samaritans who came to the victim’s aide.
The 11 September 2001 attacks killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
In New York today, families of the victims read the names of each person who died at the World Trade Center on that day.
A separate memorial was held outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, honouring the passengers and crew of United Flight 93, who struggled with the hijackers of the plane, preventing it from hitting its intended target, believed to be the White House or the US Capitol building.
All 33 passengers and seven crew members on the flight were killed after the plane crashed into a field about 75 miles (120 km) south-east of Pittsburgh.
The memorials come as builders put the finishing touches to the new World Trade Center tower and a museum describing and remembering the attacks.