Maine Fire Protection District to Receive Steel from World Trade Center

The news that American forces killed Al Queda mastermind Osama bin Laden, which broke Sunday just before 10 p.m., came soon after Maine Township  learned it will be getting a tangible reminder of 9/11.

The North Maine Fire Protection District, which serves Maine Township, will receive a six-foot long steel shard from the debris of the World Trade Center after it collapsed in Al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The remnant, which is four inches wide and weighs 50 pounds, is expected to arrive this week from New York, said a North Maine firefighter who answered the phone Sunday night but declined to give his name.  

The Sept. 11th Families Association and the New York and New Jersey Port Authority are providing such remnants to fire departments across the country which ask for them.