9-11 Remembered Around Rochester ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) - In Brockport, at Monroe Community College, in downtown Rochester and many other places people came together this morning to remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The fire bell tolled at the Greece Ridge Fire Station in Greece, where firefighters laid a wreath at the foot of a monument erected two years ago to honor those who have fallen in the line of duty.

The message from speakers at the event including State Senator Joe Robach and Assemblyman Bill Reilich was "never forget."

Gates Police Lieutenant James VanBrederode served as the piper at the Rochester Public Safety Building as the city's emergency responders met at a memorial set up in the building's atrium.

The annual commemoration is organized by retired Rochester Firefighter Dick D'Imperio who called for those who gave their lives that day and in the following days to be remembered.

Mayor Robert Duffy, Fire Chief John Caufield and Police Chief David Moore spoke -- as did Mark Tornstrom of Monroe Ambulance.

And Channel 10 news anchor Jennifer Johnson gave a remembrance of a family friend -- a New York City firefighter who ran three miles to the World Trade Center on his day off to help during the disaster, and died when the towers fell.

Chief Caufield said he was wondering if the sense of what happened on September 11th was being lost seven years after the event, until something happened on his way to work Thursday morning.

Caufield says he was ordering coffee at a Dunkin Donuts when the woman at the drive through wouldn't take his money. She told him the driver of the car ahead had paid because he was a firefighter.

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