Events set in Vetas, across U.S. to mark 9/11

Fire Department, pair of schools plan tributes

To mark the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Donald Trump is expected to attend a memorial ceremony Tuesday in Shanksville, along with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

In Las Vegas, the Fire Department will hold a tribute Tuesday morning. The ceremony will begin at 6:45 a.m. in front of Fire Station 5, 1020 Hinson St., according to the department.

Every Las Vegas Fire Department station has planned a bell ringing tribute, department spokesman Tim Szymanski said. At Station 5, a flag that once flew over the World Trade Center will be raised to half-staff over a piece of steel from the buildings.

Szymanski said the metal is always on display at Station 5.

After the bell ringing and a flag raising tribute at Station 5, retired New York City firefighter Frank Pizarro will sing the national anthem. Pizarro survived the collapse of the second tower of the World Trade Center.

Two Clark County School District schools also will hold tributes Tuesday morning that will be closed to the general public, the district announced.

At 7:55 a.m., Neal STEAM Academy students will gather at the school playground for a ceremony. The Cheyenne High School Army ROTC color guard, band and choir will perform during the ceremony.

Principal Denise Murray, whose husband was once stationed at the World Trade Center as a Port Authority police lieutenant, will speak at the ceremony.

At 8:30 a.m., a new flag will be placed on the Barbara Edwards Memorial at the Palo Verde High School soccer field during the school’s Air Force JROTC annual ceremony. Edwards was a foreign languages teacher at the school who was on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.

Elsewhere, U.S. and state flags in Connecticut have been directed to fly at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Tuesday.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven also will be illuminated in red, white and blue lights Tuesday evening in recognition of the anniversary.

Beacons that can project light nearly six miles into the night sky also will be lit.

There are 161 victims with ties to Connecticut who were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

Contact Blake Apgar at bapgar@ reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5298. Follow @blakeapgar on Twitter. The Associated Press contributed to this report.