09/11/2026
🇺🇸 SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WE WILL NEVER FORGET 🇺🇸
Twenty five years ago today, our nation awoke to a beautiful September morning that would forever become one of the darkest days in American history.
On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken in acts of unimaginable terrorism. Families lost loved ones. Children lost parents. Communities were shattered. And hundreds of firefighters, police officers, EMS professionals, and other first responders made the ultimate sacrifice while running toward danger to help complete strangers.
That day, the Phillipsburg Emergency Squad answered the call.
Alongside countless first responders from New Jersey and across the region, members of our Squad responded toward New York City to assist in the aftermath of the attacks. They did not know exactly what awaited them. They only knew that people needed help and when the call came, they went.
That is what first responders do.
For our organization, September 11 is more than a date in a history book. It is part of our history. Members who wore the Phillipsburg Emergency Squad uniform stood alongside thousands of others during one of our nation’s greatest tragedies, ready to serve wherever they were needed.
Today, 25 years later, we remember the 2,977 innocent lives lost that day. We remember the firefighters, police officers, EMS personnel, Port Authority officers, military members, dispatchers, medical professionals, volunteers, and ordinary citizens who demonstrated extraordinary courage.
We also remember those who responded to Ground Zero and other sites and later became sick or lost their lives because of illnesses connected to their service. Their sacrifice did not end when the smoke cleared and we remember what America looked like in the days that followed.
We were not strangers. We were not divided by politics, backgrounds, or beliefs. We were Americans. Flags hung from homes, businesses, bridges, firehouses, ambulances, and street corners. Communities came together. People helped one another. We stood together.
May we never forget that feeling of unity.
To the members of the Phillipsburg Emergency Squad who answered the call 25 years ago, we honor you and thank you for representing our organization and our community when our nation needed help most.
To every first responder who went toward the devastation while others were trying to escape it, we remember you.
To every family that never got to say goodbye, we remember you.
To every life lost on September 11, 2001, and every life lost in the years since because of that terrible day, we remember you.
The Phillipsburg Emergency Squad proudly joins our community and our nation today in honoring their memory.
May God bless the fallen.
May God bless our first responders.
And may God continue to bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸
September 11, 2001
Never Forget. Never Forgotten.
