SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) \u2014 The state rejected Somerset County\u2019s requests for reimbursements relating to the cleanup of Flight 93, which crashed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
\nThe Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency said it doesn\u2019t have a defined funding source for the request, county Commissioner Brad Cober said.
\nThe cash-strapped county has been seeking repayment of $64,000 in crash-related costs including costs related to heavy machinery and phone service.
\nThe county made the request while former Gov. Mark Schweiker was in office. It could renew its request with Gov. Ed Rendell\u2019s administration and with Tom Ridge, the state\u2019s governor at the time of the crash who is now the nation\u2019s homeland security chief, Cober said.
\nSomerset\u2019s commissioners said they paid the expenses without hesitation as the country mourned the attack victims, including the 40 passengers and crew who died aboard Flight 93. It is believed that some of the passengers and crew fought back against the terrorists who were trying to attack a target in Washington, D.C.
\nThe county also is seeking money from bankrupt United Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) \u2014 The state rejected Somerset County\u2019s requests for reimbursements relating to the cleanup of Flight 93, which crashed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency said it doesn\u2019t have a defined funding source for the request, county Commissioner Brad Cober said. The cash-strapped county has been seeking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}