Now 22 years later, we’re remembering the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist assaults and the aftermath within the days after.
You will discover a tour of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum right here.
Sept. 11
Earlier than the assault
Right here is the promotional poster for the Remark Deck on the World Commerce Middle. The poster depicts the Twin Towers created from a collage of phrases of all the varied totally different websites you may see from the Remark Deck. The Remark Deck was 107 tales, on prime of South Tower. The elevator trip went a quarter-mile in 58 seconds. The towers had 22 eating places and 60 retail institutions.
At 1,377 ft, the Remark Deck’s outside viewing platform was the very best on the earth on the time. On a transparent day, one may see 45 miles in every route. On common, the remark deck attracted 1.8 million guests per 12 months, or about 4,900 a day.
Safety screening
Shortly after 7:35 a.m., hijackers Salem al-Hazmi, left, and Nawaf al-Hazmi clear safety at Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport. They’re among the many 5 who will hijack American Airways Flight 77.
Portland Worldwide Jetport and Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport had safety cameras put in at checkpoints. Boston Logan Worldwide Airport and Newark Worldwide Airport didn’t have surveillance tools in operation.
The 19 hijackers are affiliated with the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda.
Results of assaults
There have been 2,996 fatalities and greater than 25,000 accidents.
No less than $10 billion in infrastructure and property injury.
The deadliest terrorist assault in human historical past and the deadliest day for firefighters (340) and legislation enforcement officers (72) within the historical past of the U.S.
Sept. 12
Looking for survivors
1000’s of building employees, first responders and self-dispatched volunteers converge at Floor Zero to seek for survivors, improvising bucket brigades to take away particles from the mountainous pile shaped by the collapse of the World Commerce Middle.
At 12:30 p.m., rescuers free Genelle Guzman from the wreckage. An worker for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who evacuated from the sixty fourth flooring of the North Tower. Guzman is the final of 18 folks trapped within the rubble to be discovered alive.
Businesses act
Members of the New York Metropolis Fireplace Division seek for survivors whereas combating the fires that burn beneath the rubble of the collapsed World Commerce Middle.
Clearing the perimeter
The New York Metropolis Division of Transportation and the New York Metropolis Division of Sanitation work to clear the streets across the perimeter of the World Commerce Middle website. Personnel take away crushed vehicles, particles and different giant obstacles to permit passage of emergency crews and building tools heading to the positioning.
Recent Kills Landfill reopens
The Recent Kills facility on Staten Island, a former landfill slated to change into parkland, reopens shortly earlier than dawn to offer an space for investigators to investigate and additional search the wreckage of the World Commerce Middle.
Combating fires on the Pentagon
Fires proceed to burn alongside the Pentagon’s roof. Because the Arlington County Fireplace Division and firefighters from different regional departments battle the blaze. President George W. Bush visits the Pentagon to thank first responders and others who’ve arrived to help.
Sept. 13
The photograph beneath reveals the Floor Zero cross, as seen from West Avenue. The metal fragment is relocated from its authentic location to the sting of the positioning close to West Avenue on Oct. 3, 2001. The Floor Zero cross is on show on the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
Sept. 14
President Bush visits Floor Zero to thank employees and volunteers. Throughout his go to, he provides an impromptu speech. When a employee calls out “I can’t hear you,” President Bush responds, “I can hear you! The remainder of the world hears you! And the individuals who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us quickly!”
Boundaries of the ‘Frozen Zone’ shift
Decrease Manhattan turns into extra accessible when a restricted district referred to as the “Frozen Zone” shifts from the complete space beneath 14th Avenue to the world south of Canal Avenue. Initially established on the night of Sept. 11 by New York Metropolis Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, this bounded space is off-limits to non-rescue personnel and nonresidents.
Roughly 37,000 households are situated south of Canal Avenue. Residents have to point out proof of residence to enter.
Sept. 16
Volunteers start serving sizzling meals outdoors St. Paul’s Chapel, which has been functioning as a respite middle for restoration employees on the World Commerce Middle website for the reason that day of the assaults. The American Purple Cross and Salvation Military have been working cell reduction stations since Sept. 11, and opened indoor respite and reduction facilities shortly after the assaults.
Sept. 17
The New York Inventory Alternate reopens after its longest closure for the reason that Nice Melancholy of 1933. In honor of these killed within the assaults, the NYSE observes two minutes of silence earlier than buying and selling begins.
Formalizing the response
Given the complexities and hazards of Floor Zero, metropolis authorities mandate that each one employees on the website be credentialed. Most volunteers working throughout the website are changed by knowledgeable workforce.
Confronted with roughly 1.8 million tons of particles, the New York Metropolis Division of Design and Development implements a method for clearing Floor Zero and cut up the positioning into 4 zones.
Memorial service held in Pennsylvania
A memorial service for relations of these killed on hijacked Flight 93 is held close to the crash website at Indian Lake, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Ridge and first girl Laura Bush converse. To accommodate relations unable to attend this memorial service, a second one is held Sept. 20.
Sept. 18
Following earlier bulletins that air high quality exams in decrease Manhattan revealed no trigger for public concern, the U.S. Environmental Safety Company points a information launch asserting that air and consuming water close to the World Commerce Middle website are secure.
Sept. 21
FBI assumes management of the Pentagon crime scene.
Proof discovered on the website consists of airplane components, parts of the hijackers’ identification playing cards and Flight 77’s flight information recorder.
Sept. 24
Mayor Giuliani declares that it’s unlikely that any extra survivors might be rescued from Floor Zero. The variety of presumed lifeless, which might be revised progressively downward as lacking particular person estimates are reevaluated, is reported to be 6,453. The day prior, the New York Metropolis Workplace of Chief Medical Examiner had confirmed 261 lifeless, of which 194 had been recognized.
Acknowledging the difficulties confronted by relations who can’t acquire demise certificates for family members whose stays haven’t been recognized, New York Gov. George Pataki declares that state’s life insurance coverage corporations will settle for uniform affidavits rather than demise certificates.
Everlasting memorial
The 9/11 Memorial opened on Sept. 11, 2011. It’s situated on the western facet of the previous World Commerce Middle advanced the place the Twin Towers as soon as stood. The memorial was designed by two architects, Michael Arad and Peter Walker, whose proposal was chosen in a design competitors out of 5,201 submissions from 63 nations.
The Memorial Plaza surrounds two monumental reflecting swimming pools set throughout the footprints of the North and South Towers.
The swimming pools function 30-foot waterfalls — the most important human-made waterfalls in North America. The water cascades into reflecting swimming pools, lastly disappearing into the middle voids. The names of people that had been killed within the assaults in New York, on the Pentagon and on Flight 93, in addition to within the 1993 bombing on the WTC, are etched in bronze across the edges of the swimming pools.
To be taught extra go to 911memorial.org.
