Many people believe that9/11was the first terrorist attack in New York City. In reality, as the 1920 Wall Street bombing shows, New York has had a series of deadly ideology-motivated incidents through its history, saysGlenn Corbett.
Below fromBobby Halton:
From the Vault offers the cover and editorial comment from the September 29, 1920, issue of Fire and Water Engineering on the September 16, 1920, Wall Streetbombing. At such an incident, the editor commented, the police, after calling for ambulances, naturally summon the fire department. "For duties of this nature the fireman is perhaps better fitted than any other individual outside of the physician or surgeon himself. His work is essentially humanitarian at all times, and he naturally enters into the task of assisting the wounded with a gentleness and sympathy that are second to none."
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