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The Boiling Springs Fire District's 9/11 Memorial Plaza in Greenville County is open to the public daily.
The event will be conducted at the District’s headquarters at 5020 Pelham Road at the corner of Pelham and Garlington roads.
With the District’s 9/11 Memorial as the backdrop, the public and members of the fire service are invited to assemble by 9:45 a.m., with a brief observance beginning at 9:59 a.m. – marking the time that the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed after being hit 56 minutes earlier by a hijacked United Airlines flight 175.
Gerald Roe, interim pastor at Pelham First Baptist Church, will provide remarks.
BSFD 9/11 Memorial Plaza
• The World Trade Center Memorial Plaza is open to the public daily.
• The plaza’s centerpiece is a 6.5-foot I-beam that was originally a part of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 2001.
• The beam measures 80 inches in length and weighs 1,360 pounds.
• The plaza’s construction was 100 privately funded from donated and discounted materials/labor and from monetary contributions.