Where were you when the world stop turning on that September day? By Alan Jackson. Ladder Company 3 truck, New York City Fire Department at the 9-11 memorial. Ladder Company 3 is located in Manhattan. On September 11, 2001 the company asked to be dispatched to the World Trade Center disaster. They parked their aerial ladder truck nearby and entered the north tower. They were among thousands of uniformed responders who collectively formed the single largest dispatch of nonmilitary emergency personnel in the history of the nation. Ladder Company 3 is known to have reached the 35th floor by 9:21a.m. Captain Patrick “Paddy” John Brown, unable to communicate directly with the lobby command post, used an office telephone to call a Manhattan dispatcher. He reported that burn victims and numerous others were making their way down the stairs and that he understood the fire to be above the 75th floor. In his last recorded transmission Captain Brown said, “Three Truck, and we are still heading up.” All 11 responding members of Ladder Company 3 were inside the building and killed when it collapsed at 10:28 a.m.
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