Safety Tidbits - 9/11/08

Numbers from 9/11/01
19 – Number of Hijackers that died during the attacks
2,966 – Number of victims (official counts range from 2,749 to 2,966 and the estimated total number of lives lost is around 3,400)
1,609 – Number of people who lost a spouse or partner
3,051 Number of children who lost a parent
266 – The number of people that were on the four planes
125 – Military and civilian personnel at the Pentagon
2595 – Number of people in the World Trade Center
· 343 NYFD firefighters and paramedics (1 NYFD firefighter was killed by a man jumping off the top floors
· 23 NYPD police officers
· 37 Port Authority police officers
· 1,402 people in Tower 1
· 614 people in Tower 2
· 658 people at one company, Cantor Fitzgerald
· 1,762 New York residents
· 674 New Jersey residents, and
· 327 foreign nationals

Attitude…it really is important
-Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill

-Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Tom Blandi

-Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett

-We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles Swindoll

-Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Quotes of the Week
Next to creating a life, the finest thing a man can do is save one."
Abraham Lincoln

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires! William Arthur Ward