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Shelter Island Fire Department remembers the fallen of 9/11

PETER BOODY PHOTO | Memorial display at the Shelter Island Center Firehouse on Tuesday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

On the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Shelter Island Fire Department displayed an American flag from its aerial ladder truck over Route 114 at the Center firehouse. On the ground in front of the truck, draped with funereal bunting, were the inform and boots of a fireman in remembrance of the New York firefighters who lost their lives.