Western Massachusetts Firefighters Tribute
To Our Fallen Brothers & Sisters FDNY
America's Heros - Sept. 11, 2001



Best Viewed In Internet Explorer or Netscape 4.5 Or Newer
Crescendo Midi & MP3 Files Used On This Website
Download Buttons Below - FREE If You Need Anything

Version 6.0

Version 7.0

Version 5.1









A Note From The Webmaster:
This Website Was Created For My Good Friend & Neighbor
Darrell Rollins - Firefighter - Springfield, MA
District Five Vice President
Professional Fire Fighters Of Massachusetts

Darrell was appointed to the Springfield Fire Department in January of 1975.
He has been an elected official of Springfield Local #648 since 1978 serving
in various Local #648 offices.
He served as President for nine years as well as terms as
Vice-President and Recording Secretary.
Darrell serves on his Local's Executive Board, Negotiating Committee,
and Grievance Committee. He is a former Vice President of the
Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council AFL-CIO.

Noble Al Varelas - USMC
Webmaster
Highly Decorated Vietnam Veteran
26th Marine Combat Regiment
Khe Sanh Combat Base

If You Have A Problem With My Patriotism
And You Don't Like This Website
Take A Hike & Have A Lousy Day



Please Take A Moment To Add Your Name To This Website
Firefighters From As Far Away As
The Netherlands (Holland) Checked In - Check It Out
Click Here


Below You Will Find Links To The Pages On This Website
Click On The Page You Desire To View
When Finished, Click Logo On Bottom Of That Page
And You Will Return Here For Another Selection


The Four Pages Below Were The Original Pages Put Up On Line On September 16, 2001
They Have Been Left Intact And Includes Updates Thru March 26, 2002

Page #1
Original Lead Page
Put On Line Sept. 16, 2001
Click Here
Page #2
Names Of All The Fireman Lost - WTC
America's Heros - Never Forgotten
Click Here
Page #3
Fireman Who Have Signed In - USA & Netherlands
Add Your Name - Sign In Today
Click Here
Page #4
Facts & Figures - Guestbook - A Must To See Page
Fireman Relief Organizations & Links
Click Here


Page 1 - Click Here

Page 2 - Click Here

Page 3 - Click Here

Page 4 - Click Here





PLEASE SIGN OUR GUEST BOOK BEFORE LEAVING
ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE - ALSO ON PAGE 4 ORIGINAL SITE
(Guestbooks In English & Dutch)



2002
Date - 2002 News Updates On Ground Zero & Recovery Read It
March 11
Tribute In Lights - Story & Photo

Click Here

May 16
N.Y. Mayor Names The Symbolic
End To WTC Recovery At Ground Zero
Click Here
May 28
Last Column Removed From WTC Site

Click Here

May 30
Solemn Tribute Ends WTC Recovery

Click Here

May 30
Sad Ceremony Marks Ground Zero End

Click Here

May 31
Last Of WTC Debris Removed

Click Here

May 31
Clean Up At Ground Zero Ends At WTC
Statistics As Of May 31, 2002
Click Here
June 2

Families Mark End of WTC Recovery

Click Here
June 4
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Mastermind Of September 11th Terrorist Attack
Story & Photo
Click Here
June 8

Remains Found Near Ground Zero

Click Here
July 12

Many WTC Victims Won't Be Identified

Click Here
July 15

Ceremony Ends Search for WTC Remains

Click Here
July 15

New WTC Plans To Be Released July 16

Click Here
July 16

Developers Reveal WTC Site Plans

Click Here
July 16

Reaction to WTC Rebuild Plans Mixed

Click Here
August 4

FDNY Reached WTC Crash Site

Click Here
August 6

NYC to Light Eternal Flame on 9/11

Click Here
August 28

7 Missing Since Attacks Found Alive

Click Here
August 28

Flight 93 Kin Keep Memories Alive

Click Here
September 3

Bush Will Address U.S. to Mark 9/11

Click Here
September 4

World Prepares to Mark Sept. 11

Click Here
September 4

Solemn Ceremonies to Mark Sept. 11

Click Here
September 4

WTC Attack Could Cost $95 Billion

Click Here
September 4

Charity Coordination Said Lacking

Click Here
September 5

Famous Sept. 11 Flag Disappears

Click Here
September 6

September 11 Fund Near $336 Million

Click Here
September 6

Congress Honors Heroism of 9/11

Click Here
September 6

Ground Zero Photos to be Restored

Click Here
September 10

Flight 93 Families Visit Crash Site

Click Here



First Anniversay - 2002
September 11

U.S. & World Mark 9/11 Anniversary

Click Here
September 11

9/11 Victim Names Read at WTC Site

Click Here
September 11

Bush Leads Moment of Silence in D.C.

Click Here
September 11

Millions Fall Silent to Mark 9/11

Click Here
September 11

Emotions Go Deep on 9/11 Anniversary

Click Here
September 11

New York Honors Ground Zero Victims

Click Here
September 11

House & Senate Remember 9/11 Victims

Click Here
September 11

Bush Lays Wreath at Ground Zero

Click Here
September 11

N.Y. Reflects in Quiet Ceremonies

Click Here


September 12

Marker Set for Unidentified of 9/11

Click Here
September 12

Nation Looks Ahead After 9/11

Click Here
November 20

Plans Set For 1st Rebuilt WTC Tower
Picture at Ground Zero:
New York Gov. George Pataki, talks to
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Click Here
December 8

Officials Prepare New Trade Center Plans

Click Here
December 18

N.Y. Group Unveils 9 Trade Center Plans

Click Here
December 20

WTC Finalists Include Tallest Structures

Click Here


2003
August 28

Transcripts of 9-11 Calls to Be Released

Click Here



Second Anniversay - 2003
September 11

Ground Zero Turns to Kids on Anniversary

Click Here
September 11

World Pauses to Remember Sept. 11 Attacks

Click Here
September 11

Preident Bush Ceremonies

Click Here
September 11

Solemn Ceremonies Mark 9/11 Attacks

Click Here
September 11

America Reflects on 9-11 - Two Years Later

Click Here


September 12

Twin Towers of Light Cap 9-11 Anniversary

Click Here
November 19

8 WTC Memorial Design Finalists Unveiled

Click Here
November 23

Commuter Train From 9-11 Returns to WTC

Click Here


2004
January 6

Memorial to 9/11 Victims Is Selected

Click Here
January 14

Revised Design for WTC Memorial Unveiled

Click Here
January 14

Final WTC Death Toll Down To 2,749

Click Here
May 5

WTC Developers to Break Ground July 4

Click Here
July 2

NYC's Freedom Tower Construction to Begin

Click Here
July 2

NYC's Freedom Tower Construction to Begin

Click Here
July 4

N.Y. Begins Construction of Freedom Tower

Click Here



Third Anniversay - 2004
Info Posted As Received





The Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground as thick smoke from
the World Trade Center blows across lower Manhattan in New York
The photo on the left shot from Bayonne, N.J. Sept. 11, 2001.
The photo on the right shows same view on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2002.

Ground ZeroPhoto Gallery
Date Photo Description View Photo
9/11/2001

Devistation - World Trade Center - September 11, 2001

Click Here
3/11/2002

Tribute In Lights - March 11th thru April 15th 2002

Click Here
5/28/2002
wtca
Recovery units from the New York City Fire and Police departments rake through debris in search for victim's remains at the WTC disaster site
Click Here
5/28/2002
wtcb
A surveyor marks the tracks of the PATH commuter train tracks near the last steel beam of the WTC's collapsed South Tower Friday 5/17/2002
Click Here
5/28/2002
wtcc
Recovery workers and heavy equipment work on uncovering more debris and remains in the rubble below street level as cleanup efforts continue at the site of the World Trade Center disaster in New York Thursday May 16, 2002. Buildings in background are the World Financial Center
Click Here
5/28/2002
wtcd
Workers remove the flag from the top of the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center before cutting it down, Tuesday May 28, 2002 in New York. The beam will be removed from Ground Zero in a separate ceremony Thursday
Click Here
5/28/2002
wtce
An iron worker prepares to cut the base of the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center, Tuesday May 28, 2002 at in New York. The beam will be removed from Ground Zero in a separate ceremony Thursday
Click Here
5/28/2002
wtcf
Two firefighters watch as the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center is cut down and placed on a flatbed truck, Tuesday May 28, 2002 in New York. The beam will be removed from Ground Zero in a separate ceremony Thursday
Click Here
5/28/2002
wtcg
Iron workers place a black shroud on the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center disaster site Tuesday May 28, 2002 in New York. The beam will be removed from Ground Zero in a separate ceremony Thursday
Click Here
5/29/2002
wtch
Ironworkers make sure the path is clear as they remove the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center in a ceremony at Ground Zero Tuesday May 28, 2002 in New York. The beam will be removed from the area in a separate ceremony on Thursday
Click Here
5/29/2002
wtci
Christopher Pillai, left, from Local 40 Ironworkers, makes sure the path is clear as they remove the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center in a ceremony at Ground Zero Tuesday May 28, 2002 in New York. The beam will be removed from the area in a separate ceremony on Thursday
Click Here
5/29/2002
wtck
Iron workers embrace as they gather around the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center before it was cut down, Tuesday May 28, 2002 at Ground Zero in New York. The beam will be removed from the area in a separate ceremony Thursday
Click Here
5/29/2002
wtcm
A firefighter sits on his helmet during the cutting down of the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center, Tuesday May 28, 2002 at Ground Zero in New York. The beam will be removed from the area in a separate ceremony Thursday
Click Here
5/29/2002
wtcp
An iron worker cuts the base of the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center as others sign it, Tuesday May 28, 2002 at Ground Zero in New York. The beam will be removed from the area in a separate ceremony Thursday
Click Here
5/30/2002
wtcsalute
Firefighters salute during a ceremony marking the end of the recovery effort at the World Trade Center collapse site in New York on May 30, 2002. The last official piece of debris was removed, along with a stretcher holding an American flag symbolizing the people who were never found
Click Here
5/30/2002
wtcr
An empty flag-draped stretcher, symbolizing those whose remains were not found from the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, is carried up a ramp at ground zero during a ceremony formally ending the recovery efforts at the disaster site Thursday May 30, 2002 in New York
Click Here
5/30/2002
wtcs
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police escort a flatbed truck carrying the last steel beam from ground zero during a ceremony marking the end of recovery efforts at the WTC disaster site in New York, Thursday May 30, 2002
Click Here
5/30/2002
wtct
New York and New Jersey Port Authority Police officers stand at attention as an unidentified family member of a victim lost in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center bows his head, second from right, during a ceremony at ground zero marking the end of recovery efforts Thursday May 30, 2002 in New York
Click Here
5/31/2002
wtcu
The excavated site of the World Trade Center is quiet Thursday May 30, 2001 in New York. The cleanup and recovery efforts at the site were declared finished, 261 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
Click Here
5/31/2002
wtcv
A flatbed truck carries the flag draped last beam of the World Trade Center up the West Side Highway as construction workers, backround, look on from the damaged Winter Garden atrium, Thursday, May 30, 2002, in New York. The ceremony marked an official end to the more than eight months of cleanup and recovery efforts
Click Here
6/2/2002

Families Mark End of WTC Recovery

Click Here
7/16/2002

Photo of a scale model of the "Memorial Garden" one of six possible plans to replace the destroyed World Trade Center, was released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) Tuesday July 16, 2002 in New York.

Click Here
7/16/2002

Photo of a scale model of the "Memorial Park" one of six possible plans to replace the destroyed World Trade Center, was released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) Tuesday July 16, 2002 in New York.

Click Here
7/16/2002

Photo of a scale model of the "Memorial Plaza" one of six possible plans to replace the destroyed World Trade Center, was released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) Tuesday, July 16, 2002, in New York. Memorial Plaza would feature an 8 acre open space and a
free-standing tower at the northwest corner of the site.

Click Here
7/16/2002

Photo of a scale model of the "Memorial Square" one of six possible plans to replace the destroyed World Trade Center, was released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) Tuesday, July 16, 2002, in New York.

Click Here
7/16/2002

Photo of a scale model of the "Memorial Triangle" one of six possible plans to replace the destroyed World Trade Center, was released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) Tuesday, July 16, 2002, in New York.

Click Here
7/16/2002

Photo of a scale model of the "Memorial Promenade" one of six possible plans to replace the destroyed World Trade Center, was released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) Tuesday, July 16, 2002, in New York.

Click Here


Second Anniversay - 2003
9/11/2003

Picture 1
Delia Colom sits draped in an American flag near ground zero in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003. Thousands of people are expected at ground zero to observe the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Click Here
9/11/2003

An American flag, known as the "Flag of Honor," hangs on a fence overlooking the World Trade Center site Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003 in New York. The names of known victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are printed on the stripes of the flag.

Click Here
9/11/2003

The "Tribute in Light" memorial for the second anniversary of the attacks on September 11, is tested Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003 in New York. The view is from the Empire State building looking south to the World Trade Center site.

Click Here
9/11/2003

Picture 2
Delia Colom sits draped in an American flag near ground zero in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003. Thousands of people are expected at ground zero to observe the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Click Here
9/11/2003

Family members gather around two pools of water representing the Twin Towers as mourners pay their respects to victims of the World Trade Center attacks during memorial service in New York on Thursday September 11, 2003 at the World Trade Center

Click Here
9/11/2003

A grieving relative places flowers in a pile of remembrances to victims of the terror attacks mill about the dirt in the heart of ground zero during a memorial ceremony September 11, 2003 in New York. New York marked the two-year anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks with a solumn ceremony, reading off the names of nearly 3,000 victims one by one.

Click Here
9/11/2003

American soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 22nd infantry regiment, 4th Infantry division in Tikrit, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, hold the unit color flags during a memorial service. More than 150 soldiers from the 4th infantry division attended the memorial service in memory of those who lost their lives from the terrorist attacks in America on September 11, 2001.

Click Here
9/11/2003

Lights from the former World Trade Center site can be seen on both sides of the Statue of Liberty from Bayone, N.J., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003.

Click Here
9/11/2003

Picture 1
The "Tribute in Light" towers above lower Manhattan during the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 in New York. At the right is the Brooklyn Bridge.

Click Here
9/11/2003

Picture 2
The "Tribute in Light" towers above lower Manhattan during the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 in New York. At the right is the Brooklyn Bridge.

Click Here
9/11/2003

Picture 3
The "Tribute in Light" towers above lower Manhattan during the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003m in New York. At the right is the Brooklyn Bridge.

Click Here
9/11/2003

Twin beams of light form the "Tribute in Light" at the World Trade Center site on the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 in New York. The photograph was made from the Empire State Building.

Click Here
11/19/2003

"Reflecting Absence"
A Memorial at the World Trade Center Site by Michael Arad
shown in this image released in New York Wed. Nov. 19th
is one of the 8 finalists for a World Trade Center memorial.

Click Here


2004
1/6/2004

Memorial to 9/11 Victims Is Selected
"Reflecting Absence"
A Memorial at the World Trade Center Site
by Michael Arad.

Click Here
7/2/2004

The Proposed 1,776 Freedom Tower
1,776 To Symbolize America's Independence

Click Here
7/2/2004

20 Ton Granite Stone Being Washed
Cornerstone Of The 1,776-foot Freedom Tower
Construction To Start July 4th

Click Here
7/4/2004

Cornerstone Moved To WTC Site

Click Here
7/4/2004

Cornerstone Ceremony At WTC Site
N.Y Gov. George Pataki - N.J. Gov. James McGreevey
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Click Here


End of Watch
A Tribute To The 72 Law Enforcement Officers
Who Gave Their Lives Helping Others
Click Here


Please Take A Moment To Sign Our Guestbooks
The NYFD Has Been Made Aware Of This Website
Nederlandse Brandweermannen Kunnen Hier Inschrijven
Uw Reacties Worden Op Prijs Gesteld


Please Sign
Our Guestbook
Click Here

You Can
View Guestbook
Click Here

Teken Het
Gastenboek
Klik Hier

Bekijk Het
Gastenboek
Klik Hier




Why Dalmations Are Represented As Fire Dogs

The Dalmatian’s affinity for horses led them to their well-known name
"Coach Dog" or "Carriage Dog." Their ability and agility to run between the
carriage wheels and the horses hoofs and their stamina to run great distances
made them ideal for traveling long and far with a coach.

The ability to run with horse and carriage is the reason the Dalmatian was so
widely used with the fire carriage of yesteryear. They would carefully and aptly
guide the firemen through streets of busy traffic. In addition, it was observed that
Dalmatians formed an amazingly tight bond with horses.

Today, with no horse-drawn carriages for fire trucks, the Dalmatian has become
the firehouse mascot. Contrary to popular belief, the Dalmatian was not used
because he could see through smoke or because he liked the color red, but
because he was a useful tool in guiding the carriages.



Thank You For Stopping In
We Hope That You Have Enjoyed Your Visit

Please Take A Moment To Sign The Guestbook
Your Comments Would Be Appreciated

If You've Enjoyed Your Visit, Pass This Website Info To Your Friends
http://www.geocities.com/nyfdus

Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1