Lights & sirens from 9/11 2001

[cromwell]

I have been wondering what happened to the emergency vehicles that was on the scene at WTC on 9/11?


I guess many of them was taken out of duty after that day. =(


I think the lights & sirens from those vehicles must have a very high sentimental value and also a high collectors value??


Or what do you think?


Maybe some collector on this board has got some info about this? Or maybe have some light or siren from that day in their collection.

 

[dcarrfire45]

i know one engine was in the ny state museum. but the rest that i know of went to the scrap yard with the rest of the debris. im sure someone knows better, just sharing what i have seen.

 

[7d9_z28]

A very large portion of the emergency vehicles on scene were wrecked during the events, and with all the hot/molten debris falling from the sky, the plastic lights on top of vehicles were more than likely first to be destroyed.


I could be wrong. But there was a lot of equipment lost that day.

 

[cromwell]

If someone went to that scrap yard and got some lights/sirens from that day then they have got something very special ....


I mean if they have proof that a lightbar/siren was on a vehicle that was on the WTC scene on 9/11, then it must be very hard to put a value to that piece...

 

[dcarrfire45]

it would of taken quite an act to get into there and get one. they had to decon all of that debris. but there is always that someone that knows someone so i guess it would be possible. and idk if you could put a value onto something like that.

 

[Respondcode3]

Most everything that was damaged and not useable was crushed and sold as scrap or ended up in a landfil. If it was repairable it was decon and put back in service. They were short alot of equipment. Then after that it went the at auction and how would you know even if it was there or not?

 

[chief1562]

Personally I think it should be left alone.


So much distruction of human life and resources.


I think I would find something else for a reminder of that tragic day.There's been a lot of stuff brought around that is supposably from the WTC site how are we to know for sure.


So much was exploited for that almighty doller.


They put some things from the FDNY in a musem that they thought was an appropreite reminder of the loss of life & property.


That's just my opinion on the subject and no one else's.

 

[cromwell]

chief1565


Yes, I guess you are right about that it should be left alone.

 

[Respondcode3]

How would you even authenticate it? I can take a NYPD Vector, throw some ground up concrete and ash on it and say it was used on 9/11. There are plenty of suckers out there that would buy it.

 

[chief1562]

Well that was a long time ago and not within the same few days,weeks,months,and years of the tragedy.


A hate it when people use a tragedy or something like(the Berlin Wall) to make profit.


People were selling chucks claiming to be from the wall for crazy money.


I could think of something else for memorabilty and would need proof of it's origins.


Alot of money hungry savages come out of the wood work just for profit on something like this.


Prime example Carpet baggers after the civil war taking advantage of the south.

 

[NPS Ranger]

 

[chief1562]

Sobering.

 

[C420sailor]

I think it would be horrible for someone to attempt to make a profit off such equipment.


But to display it, or better yet, use it on a rig that is in service---I think that'd be a very fitting tribute.

 

[guy m.]

Here is a NYPD Vision from 9-11-01 that is on display at the NYC Police museum.

 

[lotsofbars]

As someone who's always had a piece of me in NYC and who now lives in Manhattan, I think it would be nice to get something small, maybe just a mini XL or SD off the roof of one of the trucks and display it quietly in my room as a sort of tribute. Unrestored and broken, just as a reminder.

 

[FireEMSPolice]

I think they have a hangar or two at JFK Airport with cruisers and other stuff in it from that day.


A military museum just outside of Columbus just got the old Ladder 18 from FDNY.


NYC Firetruck From 911 Arrives In Groveport | NBC 4i


To get ANYTHING from 9-11, it takes a lot of paperwork and red tape. From vehicles, to a piece of metal.

 

[EHFD_Tower_751]

not really 9/11 related, but I have 3 FDNY trucks that code 3 collectibles made on a shelf. One of the is FDNY ladder 10 that was first on scene of the WTC attacks.


The other 2 are R-3 and R-5 (R-5 is the older HME one). Even the FDNY patches I have are a reminder for me.

 

[timlinson]

Watched a thing on it and they have a bunch of EVs sitting in an airport hangar with a bunch of steel from the WTCs.

 

[mdlighting]

Look at what showed up at my work today fort myer engine 162 was in the scene at the pentagon on 9/11





Unfortunately it was stripped and sold to some one in arkansas but here is the story from 9/11


http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=fort_myer_fire_department_1