The Loveland-Symmes Fire Department will hold a public ceremony on Sept. 11 to mark the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

The event begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Loveland-Symmes Firefighters' Memorial, 200 Harrison Ave., along the Little Miami Bike Trail in downtown Loveland. The memorial holds a section of steel recovered from the World Trade Center's North Tower.

Deputy Fire Chief Billy Goldfeder will deliver the keynote address, the department announced on Facebook, as the Clermont Guardian reported. Goldfeder has been in the fire service since 1973 and has served as a chief officer since 1982 in departments across Ohio, Virginia and Florida.

He sits on the boards of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) and the September 11th Families Association. The national fire service publication FireRescue1 named Goldfeder among the most influential fire service leaders of all time. He has received the International Association of Fire Chiefs' Presidential Exemplary Service Award three times, in 2005, 2013 and 2022, and the Congressional Fire Services Institute's Mason Lankford Fire Service Leadership Award in 2021.

The Rev. Bill Hounshell will officiate the ceremony, and Ralph Quisno will provide music.

The memorial dates to 1997, erected at the corner of Harrison Street and Railroad Avenue. Four pillars surround a concrete vault holding a time capsule of department badges, uniforms, newspapers and documents from that era.

A bell salvaged from the riverboat Reuben Springer tops the structure. That bell served as Loveland's fire alarm until 1934.

Beyond the North Tower steel, the site includes a plaque honoring first responders killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and a second plaque memorializing nine firefighters who died in a 2007 furniture store fire in Charleston, South Carolina.

No registration or parking details have been released for the Loveland-Symmes event.

As we reported Sept. 2, Milford will hold a separate observance the same day.