{"id":338949,"date":"2026-09-05T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338949\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:28:14","slug":"north-myrtle-beach-fundraiser-honors-september-11-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338949\/","title":{"rendered":"North Myrtle Beach fundraiser honors September 11 first responders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WPDE) \u2014 A towering U.S. flag and a New York City firetruck served as symbols of remembrance in North Myrtle Beach Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn\u2019s Irish Tavern hosted its second annual fundraiser benefiting the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Retired Fairfax County Fire Captain John Richter organized the event.<\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES:<a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/labor-day-crowds-surge-as-city-officials-businesses-and-lifeguards-prepare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Labor Day crowds surge as city officials, businesses, and lifeguards prepare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richter said he responded to the Pentagon after the September 11, 2001 attacks and lost eight friends that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this is the 25th year, a lot of people have forgotten about 9\/11 and what happened that day,\u201d Richter said. \u201cWe keep doing these events in the Myrtle Beach area to have people realize what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A memorial panel honors FDNY firefighters killed on September 11, 2001. September 5, 2026. (Simon Williams \/ WPDE) \" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1ebe4025-a9ec-4954-a402-68ef5015f85c-IMG_1949.JPG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A memorial panel honors FDNY firefighters killed on September 11, 2001. September 5, 2026. (Simon Williams \/ WPDE) <\/p>\n<p>Honor guards from Horry County, Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach took part in the opening ceremony. New York City firefighters, police officers and veterans also spoke at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/t2t.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tunnel to Towers Foundation<\/a> supports first responders, military members and their families. Richter said he plans to attend the foundation\u2019s September 11 ceremony in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WPDE) \u2014 A towering U.S. flag and a New York City firetruck served as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-338949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}