Gig Harbor’s 9/11 commemoration is a hands-on event

A half-ton piece of the World Trade Center is part of a memorial site at Station 50.

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Every September 11, the Gig Harbor Fire Department hosts a ceremony to honor the 343 firefighters who died in the 2001 attacks in New York City.

But visitors to Station 50 can pay tribute every day of the year. The fire department has a half-ton piece of steel from one of the World Trade Centers at a memorial site in front of the station.

Visitors can touch the steel, believed to have come from somewhere above the 50th floor of one of the

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