The Louisville Fire Department will receive a small piece of steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center and display it in their fire station later this year.
Chief Tim Parker said the department was one of hundreds of entities to request a piece of the World Trade Center when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey started taking requests in 2009.
The Louisville Fire Department, which currently has a plaque in honor of the 9/11 firefighters at its Station No. 1 firehouse at 1240 Main St., was approved, and the piece of steel, roughly 1 cubic foot in dimension, should arrive sometime in September.
Parker said it likely will be displayed in the training room, which is open to the public. Parker said it will serve as a memorial to the hundreds of firefighters killed on 9/11 and also as a reminder to Louisville firefighters about the risks they take on the job.
Beams from the World Trade Center are going to the 50 states and seven countries, including China. In Colorado, 15 communities will receive pieces of beams, including Denver, Aurora, Brighton, Colorado Springs, Durango, Frisco, Grand Junction and Louisville.
Denver’s steel, which arrived on Monday, will eventually be included in memorials at Babi Yar Park and at the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (CELL).
