The memorial was installed 11 years ago to honor Smiley’s late husband, Greg Light. Light was a firefighter & paramedic wi ...

Most fire apparatus, and many shirts, uniforms and badges worn by firefighters, bear the shape of the eight-pointed Maltese Cross with its familiar red circle and four sides. Every fire department ...

There were 343 Maltese crosses placed there, one for each firefighter killed on Sept. 11, 2001. The goal is to never forget the price paid in human life on that day. Seventy-two police officers ...