9/11/2001: 'You Had to Be Strong for Them and for the Job'

摘要

IN CONCLUDING OUR SERIES OF FIRE Engineering's 140th anniversary features, we revisit the most significant and far-reaching event in fire service history- the September 11, 2001, attacks-in this first-person account from Fire Department of New York then-Chief of Operations Salvatore Cassano. He provides us with insight into the events of that day, one in which we lost 343 brother firefighters as well as a fire patrolman in a mere 102 minutes. The legacy of 9/11 will live with us into the future. Although it forever changed the approach of the fire service to, among other things, large-scale incident response and high-rise construction, it nonetheless reinforced our core principle-selfless duty in protecting the public. The tragic event focused national attention on firefighters and the role they play in society.