Todays day was dominated by the memories of the fallen fire fighters and other victims in the World Trade Center in New York City, at the Pentagon and of Flight 93.Like all fire fighters all over the United States we started the day with pulling all aparatus in front of the station and putting the lights on. At 8.58 a.m. (at that time the South Tower collapsed six years ago) the 911-Dispatch pulled a 7-1 Alarm to remember the fallen comrades. All fire fighters remained for a minute of silence in front of the flag pole.
Afterwards Captain Ponce took me to the revealment of a statue 
that is dedicated to the Houston Fire Fighters and located next to the fire museum. The members of the fire museum chose the date of September 11th to also remember the fire fighters who died that day six years ago. Fire Chief Boriski and Mayor Bill White held speeches of memory and the artist who created the statue explained what moved him to create the statue as it is now.
When I was back at Station 42 we went and had dinner at a Cajun Restaurant. On our way back to the station we responded on a call for a minor accident with two cars and an 18-Wheeler, but none of the drivers needed to be cut out.
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