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Sep 11, 2001 · 651. 31K views 12 years ago. Firemen on 9/11. Testimony and footage concerning Bombs + Explosions at the WTC Complex on 9/11/01. N.B. Once you conclude that there were...
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Aug 12, 2005 · Aug. 12, 2005, 12:07 AM PDT / Source: The Associated Press. In thousands of pages of oral histories released Friday, firefighters describe in vivid, intimate detail how they rushed to save...
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Sep 10, 2021 · A firefighter screams in pain as he is rescued after being trapped under debris when one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. Richard Drew/AP
Sep 9, 2022 · Sept. 9, 2022. FDNY members tell their stories of the days before, of and after the Sept. 11 terror attacks that claimed the lives of 343 firefighters. Firehouse.com News. Courtesy BBC. FDNY...
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The firefighter deaths on Sept. 11 amounted to more than a third of the approximately 1,000 emergency personnel at the scene.
At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six minutes later, the first contingent of New York City firefighters—two ladder and two engine companies—had arrived at the stricken building. They had just begun to climb a stairwell in an effort to reach people trapped on the upper floors, when another hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175, struck the south tower at 9:03 a.m.
9/11: Reflections on Leading New York City
The 9/11 attacks not only became the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history, they were also the deadliest incident ever for firefighters, as well as for law enforcement officers in the United States. The New York City Fire Department lost 343 among their ranks, while 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority officers lost their lives, according to the 9/11 Commission that investigated the attacks and emergency response.
"We had a very strong sense we would lose firefighters and that we were in deep trouble, FDNY Division Chief for Lower Manhattan Peter Hayden later told the commission. “But we had estimates of 25,000 to 50,000 civilians, and we had to try to rescue them.”
On the ground, fire department officials quickly realized that there was no hope of controlling the blaze. Instead, they focused on the desperate mission of evacuating the office workers who were inside the two massive buildings. Though they surmised that the twin towers had suffered structural damage and the fire-suppression systems might have been rendered inoperable, they had almost no solid information about the situation inside. So the firefighters rushed into the unknown.
The terror of 9/11 is chronicled in real time utilizing footage from personal camcorders, police and fire department recordings, and in-the-moment commentary from first responders and witnesses.
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Nov 12, 2002 · Those words, captured on a tape that was released last week, were spoken by firefighters who climbed high into the south tower and perished. As a fragment of human history, they have enormous ...
Sep 11, 2021 · The day after 9/11: Burning buildings, bodies, bomb scares. In New York City, fear mounted on Sept. 12, 2001, as people searched for hundreds missing in the World Trade Center attack. By Sally ...
