Presided over by FDNY chaplains and its Ceremonial Unit, these solemn occasions were alternately described as a homecoming and a funeral. At the Memorial plaza, FDNY officials, responders, and family members watched as a crane gently lowered each vehicle through a hatch on the Memorial plaza into the Museum, 70 feet below street level, to bedrock. Before leaving the airport, each vehicle was wrapped in a protective covering and draped with an American flag. In July 2011, the FDNY vehicles made a ceremonial return to the World Trade Center site, accompanied by an honor guard that escorted them from Hangar 17 to the Museum. Additionally, in December 2010, all fluids such as engine, transmission, diesel, and hydraulic, were drained from the vehicles for safety reasons and as part of the decommissioning protocol for FDNY vehicles. They also underwent abatement to remove any potentially harmful dust particles attributed to the collapse of the World Trade Center. The vehicles selected for display in the Museum were inspected and cleared by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. In time, roughly 415 objects would be transferred to the Museum from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, among them: the FDNY Ambulance, Ladder 3, and Engine 21.
When the National September 11 Memorial & Museum project launched in 2006, its formative curatorial team conducted additional research and engaged in conversation with the firefighters, EMTs, and others connected to the artifacts. Museum professionals from local, state, and federal museums and historical societies visited both Fresh Kills and Hangar 17 to identify visually impactful artifacts and begin the exhaustive task of researching their history and connection to 9/11 responders and survivors. To that end, the PANYNJ, in conversation with their conservation consultant, Art Preservation Services, inventoried, assessed, and established storage and handling protocols for the artifacts, many in vulnerable condition. Hangar 17 became the temporary storage space for large-scale artifacts until a permanent plan emerged for their future memorial, educational, and exhibition uses. Operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), the Hangar 17 facility was tasked with decontaminating and conserving select World Trade Center artifacts. Tobin Plaza and Concourse-level retail shops. Toward the end of the recovery operation in the summer 2002, the FDNY’s Battalion 17 ambulance, Ladder 3, and Engine 21 were transferred to Hangar 17 at JFK Airport with a vast assortment of World Trade Center wreckage: structural steel, other damaged vehicles, and architectural remnants from the Austin J. In the aftermath of September 11, debris from the World Trade Center site was sent to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island. Now in their permanent home at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, each requires ongoing maintenance and conservation. Almost ten years after 9/11, they journeyed back to the World Trade Center site where they were readied for display. In the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s destruction, each vehicle was recovered from Ground Zero, assessed and processed at the Fresh Kills forensic facility, and then stored for safekeeping at JFK International Airport’s Hangar 17. While these large-scale objects are conduits for stories that help shape our understanding of this historic day, they are also unique physical artifacts with distinct properties and histories.
Burke Jr., parked underneath a pedestrian overpass on Vesey Street before entering the North Tower for their ascent to its higher floors.Įach of these vehicles-damaged in the collapse of the World Trade Center and now on display in the 9/11 Memorial & Museum-is emblematic of the professionalism and sacrifice of 9/11 first responders. Engine 21’s crew, led by Captain William F. These included the rear mount ladder truck for FDNY Ladder Company 3, led by its highly decorated captain, Patrick John Brown, and FDNY Engine 21, which was dispatched to the World Trade Center after hijacked Flight 175 struck the South Tower. Arriving on scene, they parked at West and Vesey Street, near a fleet of other emergency vehicles. On the morning of September 11, 2001, EMS Battalion 17 Emergency Medical Technicians Benjamin Badillo and Edward Martinez were on an assignment in the Bronx when they were dispatched to the World Trade Center in their FDNY ambulance.
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