Photos Create a National Patchwork of Remembrances

The Lemon Grove Fire Department will be featured Sunday as part of a 9/11 photo project commemorating the 10th anniversary of the attacks carried out by al-Qaida terrorists. The project is being published throughout Patch's 850-community network and the Huffington Post to create a national portrait of remembrances.

is home to a scarred piece of steel crossbeam from the World Trade Center that was acquired by the department last spring through an agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It rests as a public memorial in a place of honor alongside a turnout coat and Old Glory in the station's lobby.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., when al-Qaida operatives took control of airplanes that were flown into the twin towers and the Pentagon; passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 struggled with its hijackers and the plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, PA. New York lost 343 firefighters that day.

A link to the project will be posted on Sept. 11.