Crime & Safety
VIDEO: World Trade Center Piece Arrives In University Place
The volunteer crew from West Pierce Fire & Rescue says the experience of being in New York on the 10-year-anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is something they'll never forget.
A is now in University Place.
Escorted by police and fire vehicles, the three-foot piece of the fallen World Trade Center made its way from New York to the headquarters of West Pierce Fire & Rescue around 11:45 a.m., Saturday.
Five West Pierce Firefighters volunteered to make the cross-country trip to pick up the steel. They also participated in remembrance ceremonies of the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.
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, one of the five who made the trip, said the experience is something he'll never forget.
West Pierce getting the steel is part of a national effort to distribute pieces of the fallen buildings to fire departments across the country.
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The fire department that serves University Place and Lakewood isn't the first South Sound department to get one, either. Earlier this year, received a section of the steel.
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