BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Mexico Seashore is honoring the lives misplaced on 9/11. Firefighters and neighborhood members participated within the annual 9/11 By no means Neglect ceremony this morning.
They started strolling round metropolis corridor at 7:46 a.m., the identical time the primary airliner hit the north tower of the World Commerce Heart. They continued strolling till 8:59 a.m., when the primary tower fell.
Then they gathered on the flagpole for a prayer led by the chaplain, after which firefighters lowered the flag to half-staff.
Mexico Seashore Hearth Rescue sounded their emergency sirens thrice as an evacuation name, then rigorously lowered the flag from their hearth truck.
They stick with it this custom to always remember the lives misplaced that day.
“Day by day, there’s an unknown. And people guys went to do their jobs. And sadly for them and quite a lot of their households, they didn’t return. So it’s necessary that we simply bear in mind not simply the firefighters, however all of the individuals who simply went to work that day on a traditional day, who sadly bought caught up in the entire thing,” Mexico Seashore Hearth Chief Sandy Walker mentioned.
Mexico Seashore Hearth Rescue has 9 full-time and 6 part-time firefighters.
They’re briefly working out of the general public works division, with plans for a brand new hearth station quickly.
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