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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Madera commemorated the 23rd day of the 9/11 attacks connected the World Trade Center by welcoming an inaugural monument dedicated to archetypal responders.
According to Justin Macomb with Cal Fire, enactment connected the task started successful December 2021 erstwhile radical locally recovered retired determination were salvaged World Trade Center beams disposable connected the West Coast acknowledgment to a institution successful New Jersey called Sim's Metal.
"We were awarded the beam," Macomb said. "With the assistance of the Madera County Board of Supervisors and respective different donors they provided backing and this is what you spot down us."
Macomb says the monument is an important summation to the postulation of monuments passim the Central Valley for those successful the bluish valley.
"It's a large determination for america to retrieve the lives mislaid connected 9/11," Macomb said. "We person a memorial successful Clovis, we ne'er had 1 successful Madera. We had the Chowchilla Fire Chief present but it honors everybody. It incorporates everyone present locally."
