Fire warden's hat
name: label: maker
content: San Sun
notes: label: Description
content: Description: Fire wardens in the World Trade Center were issued special hats to make them easily identified in an emergency.
label: Description
content: Context: Fire and emergency training is especially important in a high-rise building. As part of his job, Michael Hurley, World Trade Center Fire Director, distributed hats, whistles, and flashlights to all the building floor wardens and was responsible for developing and implementing emergency training procedures.
label: Description
content: On September 11, Hurley considered staying home to walk his son to the first day of kindergarten, but his wife thought it might make the boy even more nervous. Instead, Hurley went to work, and he soon had to deal with the disaster of a lifetime. As the liaison to the fire department, he worked side by side with the chief in the Fire Command Center in the lobby of the north tower, providing information on stairway configurations, evacuations, and firefighting resources.
label: Description
content: As the situation worsened, Hurley was directed to seek a new site for the command center. He was in this location, away from the north tower when it collapsed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovered
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
title: label: Title
content: Fire warden's hat
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
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: Michael Hurley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0109.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0109
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0109.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cap
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 cm x 23 cm x 15 cm; 10 5/8 in x 9 1/16 in x 5 7/8 in