Kevin Pfeifer's Officer's Hand Tool
name: label: user
content: Pfeifer, Kevin
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This firefighter's pry bar, known as an officer’s tool, was carried by New York Fire Department's Lt. Kevin Pfeifer, who was killed in the World Trade Center collapse.
label: Description
content: Context: When the first 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 sent firefighters up the stairs to rescue the trapped occupants and extinguish the raging fires. When the towers collapsed, numerous trucks were crushed, and 343 members of the New York Fire Department were killed, including Lt. Kevin Pfeifer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovered
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
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
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0256.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0256
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0256.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tool
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 35.56 cm x 11.43 cm x 3.175 cm