Firefighters, police officers, EMTs and members of the community gathered for a solemn ceremony on Monday morning, marking 16 years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In a ceremony staged outside the Escalon Fire Station on Coley Avenue, Fire Chief Rick Mello welcomed attendees and said it is important to continue gathering on the anniversary of the day that changed the nation. “It has been called our generation’s Pearl Harbor,” he said of the attacks.