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Hicksville Volunteer Fire Department is announcing their final plans to commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of September 11th. The Hicksville Fire Department will commemorate the somber anniversary on Sunday, September 7th at the Strong Street Fire Station memorial. The memorial was erected in memory of Ex Chief Terrence Farrell and Honorary Chief George Howard, both who lost their lives while performing rescue efforts on September 11, 2001. Ex Chief Farrell, a member of Citizens Engine Company 3 and elite member of the New York City Fire Department, Rescue 4 and Honorary Chief Howard was an ex-Captain of Emergency Company 5 and member of the Port Authority Police Department working out of JFK Airport in the Emergency Services Bureau.
This year, the ceremony will be kicked off at the memorial at the corner of West John Street and Strong Street. Once the Program Chairperson calls the detail to attention, the ceremonies will begin. Invited guests and members of the community will pay solemn thoughts and pay tribute to Ex Chief Farrell, Honorary Chief Howard and members of the Hicksville Community who died tragically.
The ceremonies start promptly at 10AM with a presentation of colors under the American Flag detail by its Hook and Ladder apparatus and feature remembrances and prayers offered for the departed, by Father Christopher Sullivan, Department Chaplin. The ceremonies generally last about 45 minutes and again this year the department will feature a special remembrance in memory of those Hicksville residents that perished that fateful day.
Thank You.
Karl Schweitzer
Ex Chief/Public Information Officer
