September 28, 2023

The FDNY 343 Membership invitations space residents to attend a memorial service to honor the 343 firefighters and paramedics who died within the collapse of the World Commerce Heart Towers.

The non-denominational service might be held at 10 a.m. Monday Sept. 11 at St. Mark the Evangelist Church on County Highway 42 in Summerfield.

On that fateful day 22 years in the past, dozens of New York Metropolis’s best rushed into the towers and 343 firefighters and paramedics by no means got here out.  They died making an attempt to save lots of the lives of these trapped within the inferno. These women and men rushed in whereas others rushed out.

The FDNY 343 Membership is devoted to remembering the heroic women and men who made the final word sacrifice. Throughout this system, the names of all 343 deceased firefighters might be learn together with names of NYPD officers, Transit Authority officers, and others who died whereas trying to rescue residents trapped within the towers.