Pentagon fire truck panel
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This panel was part of Foam Truck 161 operated by the Fort Myer Fire and Emergency Services Division, Pentagon Station.
label: Description
content: Context: This fire truck panel, covered with soot and pockmarked by flying debris, is mute testimony to the intensity of the plane crash. On the morning of September 11, Mark Skipper and fellow firefighter Alan Wallace pulled Foam Truck 161 out of the Pentagon firehouse and parked it next to the Pentagon helipad in preparation for President Bush’s planned arrival later in the day. Debris from the crash of the airliner into the Pentagon destroyed the back of the truck and threw Skipper to the ground. After calling for help on the truck radio and extinguishing the burning truck, the firefighters turned their attention to the heavily damaged Pentagon.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Virginia, Pentagon
title: label: Title
content: Pentagon fire truck panel
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the Pentagon
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: 2003.0060.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0060
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0060.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Truck Panel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 29 in x 11 in; 101.6 cm x 73.69988 cm x 27.99994 cm