Brighton Volunteer Ambulance responded to the

World Trade Center in New York City

following the September 11, 2001 attack

Within 24 hours, we sent 15 cases of medical supplies

Within the first week we send an Advanced Life Support

ambulance and 2 three-member crews

In the second week after the attack,the BVA

Urban Disaster K-9 Team with 3 members

and two specially trained dogs arrived to

search "Ground Zero" and Fresh Kill,

Staten Island, where debris was taken to

during the recovery phase

    After the first week, we were notified that BVA member Zhe "Zack" Zeng, EMT, who had returned to New York City following graduate school at the University of Rochester was killed, when the towers collapsed.Television news footage caught his last few moments of life, giving first aid to victim of the initial plane crash.

      

As a token of their thanks,

the New York City Fire Department sent

BVA a Service Commendation

 

    They also sent BVA a shadow box plaque containing an actual piece of World Trade Center steel that was salvaged from "Ground Zero".