September 11, 2011 Data and Sources

One September 11, 2011 an estimated 3,051 children had a parent die (Source: New York Magazine).  When talking with children and teens, it is important to share facts so, some help resources are listed below.

• New York Magazine
• Project Rebirth www.projectrebirth.org which has created a documentary profiling families of 9/11. 
• National 911 Memorial and Museum which has a section on talking to children about 9/11. 
• NAGC Member, the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement has prepared Guidelines for Parents and Schools for the Anniversary of September 11, 2001 including an article "Ten Years After 9/11: What Have We (Not Yet) Learned?"

From New York Magazine and other sources above:

Times of attack: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. 

• Total number killed in the attacks 2976
  • World Trade Center North 1470
  • Flight 11 87
  • First Responders 441 (FDNY, NYPD, PAPD)
  • World Trade Center South 694
  • Flight 93 (Shanksville, PA) 40
  • Flight 77 59
  • Pentagon 125
  • Flight 175 60

• Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
• Number of NYPD officers: 23
• Number of Port Authority police officers: 37
• Number of WTC companies that lost people: 60
• Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,470
• Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 694
• Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658
• Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1
• Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39
• Number evacuated by water in 6-7 hours, according to the Coast Guard, 300,000-500,000 (one ferry company transported 158,502 evacuees); the largest waterborne evacuation since a flotilla of civilian craft saved more than 300,000 British soldiers trapped on the beaches at Dunkirk, France, in 1940.
• Number of people who work in Pentagon: more than 25,000
• Number of people who were in attacked area of Pentagon: 800
• Number of people in each tower when attacks began: 5,000 to 7,000 
• Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks:1,609
• Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051
• Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20
• FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274
• FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661
• Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300
• Number of FDNY vehicles destroyed: 98
• Tons of debris removed from site: 1,506,124
• Days fires continued to burn after the attack: 99
• Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100
• Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since 9/11: 1,714
• Economic loss to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion
• Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million
• Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million
• Amount of money granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55 billion

Victims from 38 states

New York 1,747
New Jersey          694
Massachusetts         92
Virginia           81
Connecticut         65
Maryland         50
California     49
Pennsylvania     30
DC     11
New Hampshire     10
Illinois      9
Texas      6
Florida, RI 5 each
ME, GA, ALA 4 each
LA, NC, OH 3 each
KS, DE, MO, HI,
MI, OK, CO 2 each
NE, NV, MS, KY, NM, AZ,
OR, IA, UT, ID, WI 1 each

Victims from 56 Countries including:

United Kingdom 67
India 41
South Korea 28
Canada 24
Japan 24