Bright Star
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This flashlight (marked “W. T. C. FIRE SAFETY”) was issued to Hilary North, a fire warden for Aon Risk Services, Inc.
label: Description
content: Context: While about 2,200 office workers died in the World Trade Center attack, many thousands more were able to escape through the elevators and stairs. Following the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Port Authority made building improvements and increased fire and emergency training for the building occupants. Tenants selected fire wardens for every floor, and each warden was issued a whistle, a hat, and a flashlight. Luckily Hilary North was not yet in her 103rd-floor office when the September 11 attack occurred, because she had stopped to vote in the New York City primary election. Many of her Aon co-workers were able to evacuate, but 175 employees died in the south tower collapse.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hilary North in memory of Mayra Valdes-Rodriguez
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0059.01
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0059.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flashlight
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 6.5 cm; x 8 1/16 in x 2 9/16 in