Object Details
- Description
- Description: This collection of New York Fire Department (FDNY) equipment recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center includes a door and tail light panel from a crushed fire truck, two axe heads, and two firefighter’s pry bars.
- Context: When the first hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Center, the New York Fire Department immediately responded. Officers set up a command center in the lobby of the north tower and bravely rushed up the stairs to rescue the trapped occupants and put out the raging fires. When the towers collapsed, numerous trucks were crushed, and 343 members of the New York Fire Department were killed.
- This door is from a FDNY rescue pumper truck destroyed in the World Trade Center collapse. The truck belonged to Squad One of Brooklyn, part of FDNY’s Special Operations Command, an elite group of firefighters who respond to unique fire and emergency situations. Squad One lost 12 members on Septmeber 11.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- The New York City Fire Department
- ID Number
- 2002.0055.04
- accession number
- 2002.0055
- catalog number
- 2002.0055.04
- Object Name
- Truck Door
- Measurements
- overall: 157 cm x 103 cm x 87 cm; 61 13/16 in x 40 9/16 in x 34 1/4 in
- recovery site
- United States: New York, Fresh Kills
- recovered
- United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
- September 11
- National Museum of American History
- associated subject
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- related event
- Attack on the World Trade Center
- September 11th Attacks
- Record ID
- nmah_1001083
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-43c2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
