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1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Ed DiOrio

   'This is history': Pennsylvania 911 dispatcher reflects on Flight 93 call 25 years after 9/11 (opens the original)

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   Flight 93 crashed on a rural Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001. Here's the story of how first responders made it there. The Westmoreland County 911 center in Hempfield Township opened the same morning as the crash. While some of his colleagues were training at the new building, dispatcher John Shaw took a call from Ed Felt, who was right above him. "The first thing he said was that he was on an airplane that was hijacked," Shaw said in a 2002 interview with sister station WTAE. "It's like som

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2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Ed DiOrio

   DNA identifies WWII airman Stephen Fatur, bringing Pennsylvania family long-awaited closure (opens the original)

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   Stephen Fatur was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania before he joined the U.S. military during World War II. In 1945, according to military officials, the 19-year-old died as a tail gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress on a bombing mission near Glinica, Poland. His plane was shot down by German fighter planes. For more than eight decades, his family, who called the staff sergeant “Johnny,” didn’t know if he would ever make it back home to Slickville, Pennsylvania, which is in Westmoreland Coun

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