Remembering Captain Kathy Mazza and the Other September 11 First Responders

           
               My cousin, Kathy Mazza-Delosh, a Captain in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was killed in the line of duty in the September 11 Terrorist Attacks, was among the heroic first responders lost in the massacre who were remembered at a ceremony in Reading's City Park yesterday.

               A nurse by training, Mazza rushed to the North Tower of the World Trade Center after it was hit by a terrorist-guided passenger jet.  She helped people escape from the crowded lobby of the building by shooting out the windows with her service revolver.  After the South Tower was hit and collapsed, Mazza and several of her colleagues were attempting to rescue someone from the North Tower when it collapsed, killing them.  Their bodies were found in February of 2002.

               Mazza was included in local newspaper and television stories.  The link the the Reading Eagle story may be found here: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=413263.  The link to the WFMZ-TV story may be found here: http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/Reading-firefighters-pay-tribute-to-comrades-killed-on-9-11/-/121418/16560014/-/pl9tmf/-/index.html.  All of the non-governmental civilians quoted are my family members.