Tulsa honors the lives lost on September 11th attacks

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TULSA, Okla — It's a solemn time successful America, arsenic the state remembers the thousands of lives mislaid successful the September 11th attacks.

September 11th, 2021 marks 20 years since the calamity that changed America forever.

Allen Hancock with the Tulsa Fire Department tells 2 News, “we saw the firefighters we saw the constabulary officers rushing successful to prevention others and it challenged a batch of folks successful the country and a batch of radical I enactment with each time to bash thing better, a batch of america joined the occurrence department, oregon the constabulary department, the military, worked connected an ambulance each due to the fact that of that, we wanted to bash thing amended for the assemblage and the citizens that we unrecorded astir and present we’re capable to supply services to the citizens that we unrecorded around, present we’re capable to supply services for them.”

Among the lives that are being remembered contiguous are the archetypal responders, galore ran into the Twin Towers arsenic radical were moving out.

“It’s a precise somber day, galore of america travel into this vocation possibly inspired by the events of September", Hancock said.

That time 343 firefighters and 71 instrumentality enforcement officers gave their lives to prevention the lives of others.

Public Information Officer for Tulsa Fire, Andrew Little, said, "firefighters and constabulary officers that went to work, spent the past evening with their families rushed into those buildings and didn’t instrumentality truthful we effort to bash everything we tin each twelvemonth to punctual the assemblage of that event."

To grant their work and sacrifice, much than 150 responders from Oklahoma and surrounding states walked up the ONEGas Building successful downtown Tulsa 3 times to full 110 floors, the tallness of the Twin Towers.

Matt Lay, the President of Tulsa Firefighters, tells 2 News, “9/11 played a large relation successful wherefore I chose to bash what I do. It’s really wherefore I joined the army, aft the service I utilized my GI measure to get my EMT and get hired arsenic a Tulsa Firefighter truthful it decidedly affected my beingness and the lives of truthful galore others.”

Citizens of Bixby besides attended an lawsuit astatine The World Trade Center Memorial successful the Washington Irving Park to grant those who mislaid their lives.

In 2021, the Friends of Irving Foundation is besides gathering memorials for those who mislaid their lives astatine the Pentagon onslaught connected September 11th.

Walter Gund, the President of Friends of Irving Foundation, said, “people request to remember, request to beryllium told astir it.”

FC Tulsa hosted the First Responders Night astatine OneOK Field wherever the Tulsa Police Department and the Tulsa Fire Department volition vie successful the First Responders Cup.

They wanted to grant those men and women who enactment their lives connected the enactment mundane for our community.

The First Responders Cup was a mode to observe immoderate affable contention connected the field.

One Tulsa Fire Fighter, Mike Rodriguez, said “training for this is simply a batch antithetic than what we bid for usually, we don’t usually tally to fires, we thrust occurrence trucks, truthful we’ll conscionable woody with it.”

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