Fire Truck Door
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovery site
content: United States: New York, Fresh Kills
label: recovered
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
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content: September 11
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The New York City Fire Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0055.04
label: accession number
content: 2002.0055
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0055.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Truck Door
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 157 cm x 103 cm x 87 cm; 61 13/16 in x 40 9/16 in x 34 1/4 in