Firetruck from ruins of WTC to be featured at Austintown 9/11 ceremony

Mahoning Valley 9-11 Memorial

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The 2012 Mahoning Valley 9-11 Memorial was held in in Austintown. Hundreds attended the event

Firetruck from ruins of WTC to be featured at Austintown 9/11 ceremony

By Danny restivo

drestivo@hotmail.com

AUSTINTOWN

Members from the township’s beautification committee will remember 9/11’s fallen victims with a piece of history that was present during the attack.

The township will host a memorial Tuesday for all the victims who died Sept. 11, 2001, at the Mahoning Valley 9/11 Memorial Park located along Raccoon Road.

The event begins at 6 p.m. and will include a fire engine that was buried in the World Trade Center wreckage.

Don Jordan, a captain with the Nimishillen Township Fire Department in Stark County, will bring to the ceremony fire Engine 293. He bought the partially destroyed New York City fire engine in November 2002 for $2,800 at an auction. He then spent $8,000 and 18 months refurbishing it.

Read the full story with listings of other Sept. 11 memorials in the Valley on Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.