By Jim Cross
KTAR
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Six years ago today the world was stunned by the 9/11 attacks. An elite Phoenix fire team who spent time in Oklahoma City following the worst ‘domestic act’ of terrorism would soon be on the way to the worst act of terrorism on American soil.
“You first heard about the planes, the first plane hit. It seemed like it was some kind an anomoly and they wondered what had happened,” says Phoenix Fire Division Chief Jay Strebeck.
“People’s lives were in danger and somebody actually meant to do that to some folks. That was just hard to fathom anybody had that kind of resolve to do something like that.”
Streebeck was among 70 Phoenix firefighters who were sent to New York following the terrorist attacks.
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