8-25-2010 (Gloucester County) GLOUCESTER CO. - Coverage of 9/11/01 Iron and Steel Run From NYC to Arlington Va.

On August 28 2010 - 175 members from 34 Gloucester County Fire, Police, and EMS Departments staged their apparatus on every overpass above Interstate 295 in Gloucester County awaiting the arrival of the final piece of steel from New York City’s World Trade Center to be transported to Arlington Va. The piece of steel will be delivered to the Arlington VA Fire Department for a future memorial, as Arlington Fire Department Station 5 was the first due company at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The steel was escorted by the New York-based Fire Family Transport Foundation along with over 500 motorcyclists, and a few antique fire trucks including the 343 truck. The 343 Truck is a memorial piece of Fire Apparatus that has the names of the 343 members of the FDNY that lost there lives on September 11. The processes ion was welcomed into Gloucester County with crossed ladders and then again as they exited into Salem County. The Processes ion was expected to make it to Arlington by 5pm Sunday. Let us never forget the men and women who lost their lives on that day.

-- Photos by NJFG William Rieger III