TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) - A special piece of U.S. history made stops in Alabama on it's 3,100 mile journey to the San Diego Fire Museum.  The twisted piece of metal is a support beam from one of the World Trade Center towers where hundreds of firefighters, including Terry Farrell, were killed on September 11, 2001.  Since 2002, the Terry Ferrell Firefighter Fund has been working to assist firefighters in their line of work.  The fund has expanded to 10 states, with over 350 thousand dollars in equipment that has been donated to fire departments in need. 

A mini ceremony was held at the Alabama State Fire College to welcome the World Trade Center steel, but that wasn't the fund's only purpose in West Alabama.  The Terry Ferrall Firefighter Fund donated a tractor trailer of supplies and equipment to the fire departments and volunteer fire departments that had been destroyed or damaged in the April storms.  CBS 42's Leigh Garner reports.