LETHBRIDGE – Though the attack happened in America, Sept. 11 resonates with emergency service members everywhere. Lethbridge’s tight-knit firefighting paid their respects to their fallen brothers and sisters by parading downtown.
Across the world, Sept. 11 has become a memorial for fire, police, and medical services. While Lethbridge firefighters may not have run against the crowd into the crumbling World Trade Centers, every day they face the chance of death.
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“These frontline responders are really what it’s all about,” said Lethbridge Fire Chief, Richard Hildebrand. “We share a common set of values so we understand, I think, at least a little how the responders might have felt that day.”
“I think this day brings out a number of emotions and there’s no question that some of them are still quite raw.”
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New members of the emergency services brotherhood do not all share the same memories as their older colleagues, but the day of rememberance is just as important for the younger first responders.
“A lot of the young members in all the emergency services were quite young when it happened,” said police chief Robert Davis. “We need to pay tribute to those that lost their lives that day and then remind everybody here of all the generations how important this day is.”
“We all, around North America, felt the same pain.”
Nearly 3,000 people died in New York, Washington, DC and Shanksville, Pennsylvania when terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and one into a field in 2001.
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