FILE
NO
9110035
WORLD TRADE CENTER TASK FORCE INTERVIEW
PARAMEDIC
INTERVIEW
DANIEL
RIVERA
DATE
OCTOBER 10 2001
TRANSCRIBED
BY LAURIE
COLLINS
RIVERA
MS BASTEDEN BECK
10TH 2001 THE TIME
IS
TODAY
IS
OCTOBER
1520
HOURS MY WORK FOR THE
NAME IS
CHRIS
BASTEDENBECK
FIRE
NEW YORK
CONDUCTING INDIVIDUAL
CITY
DEPARTMENT
1M
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FOLLOWING
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME YOUR RANK YOUR
TITLE
WHERE YOURE ASSIGNED
PARAMEDIC
PARAMEDIC
STATION
RIVERA
ASSIGNED
DANIEL
RIVERA
1M
TO BATTALION
31
36 IN BROOKLYN
LIKE
1D JUST
OF
YOU
TO GIVE
ME
THE EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001
OKAY
WERE GASSING
IS
BASICALLY
STARTED
MY
WE
UP
AT TILLARY
AND GOLD STREET WHICH
TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE WHEN
THE COMMOTION OVER THE
WE HEARD
PLANE JUST
PD
RADIO
THAT
HIT
ONE
OF THE
TOWERS BECAUSE WE WERE
CALLED
WE GOT ON
THE BRIDGE
AGAIN TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM THERE AND
DISPATCHER OVER THE RADIO
RADIO ACTUALLY
THE
OVER THE
PHONE CAUSE THE
WAS REALLY BAD AND
THAT
LET
THEM KNOWTHAT WE WERE ON OUR WAY TO SHE SAID
CALL
104
AND SHE ASSIGNED
US THE JOB
THAT
RIVERA
WAS TWO MINUTES
AFTER THE FIRST
PLANE HIT
TO
THE DISPATCHER
THE BROOKLYN
THAT
YOU SPOKE
WAS
DISPATCHER
YES BROOKLYN
SO
TO THE
IT
TOOK US ABOUT FOUR MINUTES
TO GET
SCENE BECAUSE WE WERE REALLY
REALLY
CLOSE
WE PARKED
IN
IN
FRONT OF THE SOUTH TOWER
RIGHT
FRONT OF THE BUILDING
WHEN YOU SAY RIGHT
BUILDING
IN
FRONT OF THE
RIGHT HERE ACTUALLY IN FRONT OF FOUR
WORLD TRADE CENTER AND
BUILDING
IN
BACK OF THE SOUTH TOWER
OKAY SO SOMEWHERE COMPLEX
RIGHT
IN
RIGHT
IN
THE
THE FRONT RIGHT HERE
MAYBE
ABOUT ONE YARD AWAY FROM THE SOUTH TOWER BUILDING
SO
THAT
WAS WHEN YOU FIRST ARRIVED
RIGHT THERE
WAS
LOT
OF PEOPLE
RUNNING JUST
EVERY DIRECTION AT THAT TIME
AND SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE HURT ONE
PATIENT
WAS TREATING
WHOWAS
FOREHEAD
ON THE GROUND WITH
LACERATION
TO HIS
RIVERA
AND
ACTUALLY
THINK
IT
WAS AND
TOTAL OF THREE
PATIENTS
ONE ASTHMATIC
DONT REMEMBER THE
OTHER PATIENT
AS WAS
LACERATION
TREATING
THE PATIENT
WITH THE THAVS
AND THE ASTHMATIC
ALL
PATIENT
WHEN
THE SECOND PLANE HIT
HEARD
WAS JUST SAW
BALL
THUNDEROUS NOISE
OF FLAMES
AS
LOOKED
UP
COMING
DOWN SO EVERYONE
RAN THE
PATIENTS
AND EVERYONE
RAN NOT TOO FAR COUPLE STEPS
BEHIND
ME
NEXT TO THIS
UNTIL
DOUGHNUT CART AND WAS
THAVS
CLEAR
HID
UNDER THERE WENT
RIGHT
EVERYTHING BASICALLY
TERRORIST
AND WE
BACK
WAS
WHEN
REALIZED
IT
ATTACK
BASICALLY AT THE
THERE WERE TOO
MANY PATIENTS
TIME AND YOU
IT
REALLY
COULDNT TRIAGE THE SCENE
ANYONE
WAS JUST
TOO DANGEROUS
BASICALLY
WASNT SAFE SO WE WERE JUST
HELPING
TALKING AT THAT POINT
DONT KNOWWHAT 1M
PRETTY
ABOUT THEN
EVERYONE
MUCH
SPLIT
UP
WENT AND
STARTED
DIRECTING
PEOPLE FROM THE BUILDING
TO GET
FROM THE SOUTH TOWER
OUT BECAUSE AS THEY WERE COMING OUT OF
THEY WERE GETTING
THE BUILDING
ON THEIR PHONES
RIVERA
AND
JUST
TALKING
AND BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE
SO WE
SAID LEVS
GO YOUVE
GOT TO
GO
ACTUALLY
DID YOU GO INTO THE BUILDING
YES
BUILDING
WENT
INTO
THE SOUTH TOWER
BUT CAME RIGHT OUT RIGHT BY THE DOORS
TO FIGURE
WAS TRYING MANY
LOT
OUT
WHY THERE WASNT TOO
LIKE
PEOPLE COMING OUT
SAID
THERE
WAS
OF PEOPLE
ON THEIR
CELL
PHONES
IT
GUESS WHEN
THEY GOT TO THE LOBBY THEY THOUGHT
WAS SAFE
CELL
AND THEY DECIDED AND
TALK
TO JUST
GET ON THEIR
PHONES
AND BLOCK THE ENTRANCES
WAS MAKING
SURE THAT THE ENTRANCES WERE CLEAR SO EVERYONE CAN PASS
THE SOUTH TOWER DO YOU KNOWIF YOU WERE OUT ON
LIBERTY
STREET
DONT REMEMBER YOU DONT REMEMBER OKAY DONT REMEMBER YOU KNOWWHAT
COULD HAVE BEEN ON THIS THAT
SIDE
DONT REMEMBER
BASICALLY
ONCE
DID
THAT
GOT
TOGETHER WITH VEHICLE
MY
PARTNER AND HE
MOVED THE
TWO BLOCKS BEHIND SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE FOUR WORLD TRADE CENTER
SOMEWHERE BEHIND
RIVERA
THINK LIKE
BY TRINITY
YEAH AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE AROUND YEAH
AND
LIBERTY
AND AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE TRINITY AROUND HERE
ALL
LIBERTY
THINK
ONCE WE SAW NEEDED
TO
THAT
HAPPENING WE
MOVE THE BUS
OKAY SO WHAT ELSE HAPPENED WHEN YOU MOVED OUT
THERE DID YOU SEE OR FIREMEN THE BUS OUT TO
ANYBODY ANY EMS
SUPERVISORS
SUPERVISORS
THERE
WAS
SUPERVISOR
BUT HE WAS
PRETTY
MUCH OVERWHELMED
HE WAS
IT
BUT DONT
REMEMBER
IT
HIS
NAME
PRETTY
MUCH OVERWHELMED
EVERYONE
FOR
WASNT
TEXTBOOK
THEMSELVES
WAS BASICALLY
AFTER THE
SECOND EXPLOSION
SAW MANNY DELGADO
PEOPLE LIKE SAID
IT
SAW SOME OTHER
REALLY CRAZY
WAS CRAZY
EVERYTHING
PRETTY
MUCH CALMED DOWN
HIT
IT
ONCE THE SECOND PLANE
PEOPLE
STILL
WASNT TOO BAD
BODY
RUNNING OUT OF THE BUILDING
PARTS
THINK THAT
WAS THE WORST
EVERY THREE ABOUT 26
SECONDS
WAS COUNTING
COUNTED
RIVERA
BODIES
WHEN WAS
THERE
EVERY THREE SECONDS
SOMEBODYWAS JUMPING
AT THAT POINT
WE WERE TRIAGE
MEDICS
WE WERE
THERE WAS FROM
WHAT THEY
CALL FRONT LINE
CAPTAIN THERE
DONT KNOW HIS NAME
SETTING
EMS
HE WAS
EVERYONE GO
IN
UP
SAYING THE
MEDICS WERE GOING
GOING
IN
TO
FIRST
THE
EMTS WERE
BEHIND
US
LET
THEY DIDNT DANGEROUS
BUILDING
STILL
US GO
IN
BECAUSE
IT
WAS
WE WERE RIGHT WE HAD
IN
FRONT OF THE
NO IDEA THE BUILDINGS
THAT
WERE GOING
TO COLLAPSE
WAS DANGEROUS WHERE
WE WERE ANYWAY
THINK
IT
TOOK ABOUT 30 MINUTES
OR 40
AFTER THE
MINUTES
AFTER THE
SECOND COLLAPSE
SECOND PLANE
HIT
THE SOUTH TOWER BUILDING COLLAPSED
BUILDING
AND
THEN THE BUILDING
WHEN THE
COLLAPSED WHERE WERE
YOU
WAS
RIGHT
IN
RIGHT
IN
FRONT OF THE BUILDING
FRONT
YOU WERE STILL
RIGHT
THAT
BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED WAS
RIVERA
UP NEAR
TRINITY
AND LIBERTY BUS
TO TRINITY
NO WE MOVED THE
WENT BACK BECAUSE HERE
TO RIGHT
IN
BUT
WE
FRONT OF SOUTH
TOWER
IT
TRIAGE
1M
NOT TOO SURE
IF
WAS OVER
THINK
IT
WAS OVER HERE SOMEWHERE
RIGHT
IN
TRIAGE WAS
STILL
FRONT OF THE SOUTH
TOWER BUILDING
SO YOU PARKED YOUR VEHICLE
MY PARTNER
PARKED THE VEHICLE
SO 1M
IT
NOT TOO SURE EXACTLY WHERE HE PARKED HE PARKED
IT
KNOW
TWO BLOCKS
UP
AND COMPLEX
THEN YOU BOTH WENT BACK INTO THE
THINK
IT
WAS AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE KNOWIT
AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE WE HAD TRIAGE WAS
THINK EITHER THIS BUILDING
OR THIS
BUILDING OR OVER
IT
WAS OVER HERE WE WERE TRIAGING
IS
HERE 1M NOT TOO SURE THIS TOWER RIGHT
COLLAPSED THIS
IS
THE SOUTH
THE
FIRST
ONE
THAT
YEAH
PRETTY
SO WE WERE WORKERSWERE DONT KNOW IF
MUCH
BUILDING
MOST
LIKE
OF THE
INSIDE
THIS
SAID
IVS
FIVE
WORLD TRADE CENTER OR
OF
FOUR WORLD TRADE CENTER MOST
THEM WERE IN
RIVERA
THE BUILDING SAID
BECAUSE THE
CHIEF
OR THE CAPTAIN
INSIDE THAT
IF
YOU WANT YOU CAN STAY
BUT DIDNT
FEEL SAFE
BUILDING
IT
BECAUSE
KNEW
WAS
TERRORIST
ATTACK
SO
WAS SCARED
EVERY TIME
YOU HEAR
PLANE EVERYONE WOULD RUN
SO
PRETTY
MUCH STOOD AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE
WAS
PRETTY
WOULD SEE TRIAGE BUT
MUCH
IN
BETWEEN THE TWO BUILDINGS THEN THAVS WHEN
KEPT ON WALKING
CLOSE TO THE SOUTH TOWER AND THAVS
BUILDING
WHEN THAT
COLLAPSED
HOWDID
YOU KNOWTHAT
IT
WAS COMING
DOWN
THAT NOISE
IT
WAS
NOISE
WHAT DID YOU HEAR WHAT DID YOU
ITWASAFRIGGING THOUGHT
IT
SEE
NOISE
ATFIRSTL
WAS
DO YOU EVER SEE PROFESSIONAL
SET THE CHARGES
DEMOLITION
FLOORS
WHERE THEY
ON
CERTAIN
AND THEN YOU HEAR
POP
POP POP POP
THOUGHT
POP
IT
THAVS EXACTLY WHAT
BECAUSE
WAS THAT WHEN
HEARD THAT FRIGGING
BUILDING
NOISE
THAVS
WHEN SAW THE
COMING
DOWN
WHATDIDYOUDO RUN
MOST
OF THE PEOPLE RAN INTO THE
RIVERA
10
BUILDING
BUILDING
BUT
WAS JUST
TOO FAR FROM THE
TO RUN INTO THIS
TRIAGE
BUILDING
BASICALLY
JUST
RAN UP THIS
WAY
OR
RIGHT
UP HERE
BUT
DONT KNOW IF
RAN UP
WAS HERE
WAS HERE
THOUGHT
WAS REALLY CLOSE
IT
WAS
DEAD BECAUSE
BUILDING
IS
IT
WAS JUST
TOO CLOSE TO THE
WAS JUST
TOO CLOSE
SAID
THIS
DONT KNOW HOWMANY STORIES
RAN AS FAST AS COULD
MAYBE
HALF
BLOCK AND THEN HID
BETWEEN
BUILDING
THAT
HAD
SOME
THAT
KIND OF INDENTION FOUND STRETCHER
LIKE THIS
JUST
HID
LIKE
ACTUALLY
STRETCHER
COVERED
MYSELF WITH
THAVS WHEN EVERYTHING
CAME
DOWN
IT
WAS VERY
TIME
DARK FOR
FEW MINUTES
FIRE
THINK
AT THAT
MY
PARTNER WENT UNDER THE
TRUCK HE
WAS TELLING
THEIR
ME
EVERYONE
PRETTY
MUCH
WENT ON
OWN
WENT
RIGHT
SO ONCE THAT CLEARED AND
STARTED PULLING
BACK
OUT PEOPLE
AT THAT TIME
BASICALLY
EVERYONE COLLAPSE
WAS DEAD
WITH THE
FIRST
WHEN THAT
DUST CLEARED AND YOU WENT
BACK WHERE DID YOU GO BACK
TO
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RIGHT BACK TO THE TRIAGE TO TRIAGE
SO
IN
FRONT OF THIS
BUILDING
AGAIN
RIGHT
IN
RIGHT
HERE WORLD TRADE CENTER THE
FRONT OF THE
NORTHEAST CORNER BUT THERE
WAS NOBODY
IN
THERE
APPARENTLY
EVERYONE RAN
IN
RAN AND CAME OUT THROUGH
HERE SO
HERE THERE WAS BASICALLY FEW FIREFIGHTERS
IN
NO
ONE AROUND JUST
SHOCK
BUILDING
THEN THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW THE NEXT
COLLAPSED BUILDING
WAS
RIGHT
IN FRONT OF THAT
SO YOU WERE STILL OVER THERE WHEN THE SECOND
BUILDING
COLLAPSED
RAN BACK NOT TOO
RIGHT
BRIGHT OF
BECAUSE COURSE
ME OF
RAN RIGHT BACK IN TOUCH THE
AND
WAS RIGHT WHEN IT
COULD ACTUALLY COLLAPSED
BUILDING
THE SECOND TIME
WHEN
IT
COLLAPSED BUT AGAIN
WAS PREPARED BECAUSE
IT
HEARD THAT
SAME NOISE
WAS LIKE
RAN
IN
WATERFALL
NOISE
DIDNT
THAFS WHEN RAN AS
RUN TOO FAR
IN
HERE
LITTLE
AGAIN
IT
WAS
LIKE
INDENTION
THE BUILDING
WHERE THE SAME THING
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AGAIN
THAFS WHEN JUMPED BECAUSE
IT
WAS
JUST
TOO CLOSE THAT ONE GOT
ME
PRETTY
GOOD
SO YOU WERE OUTSIDE
INSIDE BUILDING
YOU NEVER RAN
OF THE TOWERS
WHEN EITHER ONE
COLLAPSED
NO
THE
FIRST
SOUTH TOWER
AFTER
THE SECOND PLANE HIT
JUST
TO CLEAR THE
DOORWAY
STAY
AND THEN
CAME RUNNING BACK OUT
DIDNT
THERE TOO LONG
AS THE COLLAPSES WERE GOING
NEVER
ON YOU
NO WAS THINKING
BUILDING COLLAPSE
ABOUT GOING
FIRST
INTO
BECAUSE AS
SAW THE
FIRST
BUILDING
NOTICED THAT THE
THREE OR FOUR THAT WAS ON
FLOORS THEY WERE STILL
PRETTY
GOOD
MY MIND WOWTHEY
WHEN THE SECOND
THINKING
WERE STILL
PRETTY
GOOD SO
WAS
OF THE
BUILDING
COLLAPSED
OF STANDING
BETWEEN THE DOORS
TOLD
SECOND COLLAPSE BACK AGAIN
BUILDINGS
SOMETHING
ME NO JUST
RAN
RAN UP AGAINST
ONE OF THE
SETTLED
THERE
ONCE EVERYTHING
DEJA
AGAIN
IT
WAS DARK AGAIN
VU YOU KNOW
BUILDING
BUT
WAS
REALLY LUCKY
BECAUSE
THAT
HAD DAMAGE ON
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TOP OF
ME
EVERYTHING
IN
AROUND ME WAS DESTROYED
THE
FIRE
TRUCK
FRONT OF
ME WAS DESTROYED
IF
EVERYTHING
HAD TO TOUCH MYSELF TO SEE
WAS ALIVE THEN
RAN RIGHT BACK BECAUSE THERE THAVS
WASNT MUCH TOO RUN AND
THE RADIO
WHEN YOU
HEAR ON
EMS PEOPLE DOWNFIRE DOWN
RAN
THERE AND THEN
THINK
RAN BACK OVER HERE BECAUSE ANOTHER TRIAGE CENTER
POINT
THEY STARTED
AROUND
IN
HERE THERE
SOMEWHERE TRIAGE
RAN BACK
THEN THEY SAID THERE WAS
PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE IN
AFTER BOTH BUILDINGS
LOT
OF
THAVS WHEN
COLLAPSED
RIGHT
BACK
THERE WERE
BATTALION
SEVERAL FIREFIGHTERS CHIEFS DIDNT
DOWNTHERE AND
KNOWTHEY WERE BATTALION
CHIEFS
BUT THEY WERE WHENWE PULLED THEM OUT
SO
AFTER THE
SECOND
BUILDING
COLLAPSED
YOU ENDED UP OVER HERE BY
TRINITY
STREET
RAN
AFTER THE
WAS OVER HERE RIGHT AND THEN BACK OVER HERE SOMEWHERE BECAUSE
FIRST
COLLAPSE THEY PRETTY
MUCH SET
ANOTHER NOT TOO
TRIAGE
CENTER AROUND HERE
IVS
SOMEWHERE 1M
SURE
IF
OVER HERE THEN
WHEN THE SECOND
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BUILDING
COLLAPSED
COULDNT
RUN FAR BECAUSE
SETTLED
IT
WAS
RIGHT THERE
THEN ONCE EVERYTHING AREA
THINK
RAN RIGHT BACK TO THE TRIAGE
AND
THE TRIAGE
WAS YOU
SOMEWHERE RIGHT
SOMEWHERE BY
THROUGH THE RIGHT
TRINITY
ABOUT MIDWAY
1M
NOT TOO
RIGHT
THEN THAVS WHEN WE FOUND OUT
BASICALLY
WAS LOOKING MY
FOR
MY
PARTNER
IN
COULDNT FIND HE
PARTNER
WHEN WENT BACK
THERE
WAS THERE
HE NEEDED SOME OXYGEN FACE THEN
THAT
BECAUSE HE HAD
THAVS
STUFF ALL OVER HIS
WHEN THE
FIRE
RADIO
CALL
CAME
IN
WE HAD
EMS AND
TRAPPED
RAN
BACK
IN
HERE
SOMEWHERE OVER THERE
THERE WAS JUST
NO ONE AROUND
IT
WAS
VERY VERY BAD YOU COULDNT BREATHE TOO GOOD THAVS WHEN SAW SEVERAL OUT SO WE
THAT PULLED FIREFIGHTERS
WHO WERE
OUT ABOUT THREE FIREFIGHTERS
IN
WERE COVERED
RUBBLE
TO
WHAT HAPPENED
THEM DO YOU KNOW
BECAUSE
GET
IN
ONEGUYLCANTFORGETHIM
HE
WAS PRETTY HEAVY
111
PROBABLY
RIVERA
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TROUBLE
HE WEIGHED 400
POUNDS THE
WORST PART
ABOUT THIS
WHEN THIS
BUILDING
COLLAPSED
IT
WAS
VERY DIFFICULT
TO WALK THROUGH ALL THIS
WHEN THE
SOUTH TOWER
CAME
DOWN
THE SOUTH TOWER
BUILDING
RIGHT
SO WHEN THIS
EVERYTHING HERE
COLLAPSED
PRETTY
MUCH
YOU COULDNT
RECOGNIZE
IT
ANYMORE SO
IT
TOOK
THIS
WHILE BEFORE YOU COULD ACTUALLY POINT HERE
ALL
WALK FROM
THIS
IS
THE
WAY BACK HERE
WHERE
WE HAD
SEVERAL TRAPPED FIREFIGHTERS
HERE
OVER
BY
RIGHT
FIREFIGHTERS
THERE WERE LOTS
OF FIREFIGHTERS
HERE THERE WAS
BY THE CUSTOMS BUILDING
RIGHT BUT MORE
RIGHT RIGHT
RIGHT
AROUND IN BETWEEN AND
THIS
FIVE
WORLD TRADE CENTER
TOWER HERE YOU SAW ABOUT 20
ESU GUYS ON
THE
SECOND FLOOR DONT ASK ME HOWTHEY GOT THERE THEY WERE CLIMBING WERE THERE WHEN HERE THEY WERE
IT
DOWN SO
COLLAPSED
IT
LOOKS LIKE THEY
THERE
WAS
LADDER
REPELLING
DOWN
TRIED TO FIGURE
WAS SHOCKED BECAUSE
OUT
THINK
HOWTHEY MADE
IT
BECAUSE THEY WENT FROM
FLOOR
SECOND OR THIRD
AND THEY WERE
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REPELLING THIS
REST OF THE
IS
WHERE YOU ENDED UP STAYING THE
DAY
THIS
IS
NO
CRAZY
YOU COULDNT STAY
EVERYTHING
HERE BECAUSE YOU HAD
PRETTY
WAS DESTROYED
MUCH AROUND HERE AGAIN
IT
DONT ASK
PRETTY
ME WHY
WENT BACK IN
WAS REALLY BAD
TO THIS ORIGINAL
MUCH WENT BACK
CHURCH AND
SPOT HERE AT
DIRECTED
TRINITY
THINK
THEN THEY
US SOMEWHERE ELSE AROUND HERE
WHODIRECTED
RIGHT
YOU
SUPERVISOR
SOME
SUPERVISOR
DO YOU KNOWWHERE YOU ENDED
UP
BY THE WATER SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE BY BATTERY PARK
RIGHT
SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE
THAT THERE
THEN THEY SAID
WAS
GAS
LEAK
AND
THAT
WAS TOO DANGEROUS SO WE WALKED FROM
HERE
TO
WE WERE
THE
SOMEWHERE THEN
NOT
THEY TOOK US
ALL
WAY
CHAMBERS WHAVS THAT
PIER
PLACE ON THE
WEST SIDE
94
AFTER ALL
THAFS WHERE YOU ENDED UP
THAT
STUFF
AFTERALLTHAT
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SO YOU ENDED UP
RIGHT FORGOT WHAT
AT PIER
94
WAS GOING
TO YOUR
TO ASK
YOU
WHAT HAPPENED
VEHICLE
IT
WE MOVED THE
HOLES
VEHICLE
HAD SEVERAL
WE HAD
SO
IT
NO IDEA
IT
HAD SEVERAL HOLES
ENDED UP STAYING THERE AND GOT
DAMAGED
STAYING THERE AND THEN MOVING EVERY TIME
IT
IT
RIGHT
BASICALLY
WOULD COLLAPSE AND MOVE
IT
MY PARTNER WOULD
GO
IN
THE VEHICLE
SO THAVS WHY OUR VEHICLE WAS THE ONLY ONE
PRETTY
MUCH THAT MADE
THINK
IT
THERE WAS ANOTHER VEHICLE
TOO
ONE
THINK
IT
OF THE
NEWS CHANNELS
SAW
WAS THE
SOUTH BUILDING
SOMEBODYWITH
CAMERA RUNNING OUT YOU
ACTUALLY
OF THE SOUTH TOWER BUILDING
COULD SEE
MY
VEHICLE
RIGHT
IN FRONT
OF THE
TOWER
RIGHT
IN
FRONT
BUT THAVS BEFORE
HIT
THE SECOND COLLAPSE
THE SECOND AIRPLANE
SO WE
PRETTY
MUCH MOVED EVERYTHING
AT THE
YOU SAID
END
OF THE
DAY YOU AND
YOUR PARTNER WERE TOGETHER WITH YOUR VEHICLE
YES WE
PICKED
UP ANOTHER ALS
UNIT
WHO
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LOST THEIR
VEHICLE
SO WE HAD TWO ALS
TRIAGE AT THAT
UNIT
IN
ONE VEHICLE
PIER
WE WENT TO
POINT
AT
95
THINK
ELSE
ANYTHING
YOU WANT
TO
ADD
IT
TO
THIS
1M
MORE
LOOKING AT THE TIMES
HERE
FELT
LIKE FIVE
MINUTES THE WHOLE THING
OF STUFF
THAFS THE KIND
WANT YOU
TO
SAY HOWYOU PERCEIVED
LIKE
EVERYTHING
SAY ONCE SAW THE SECOND KNEW
THAVS
IT
IT
PLANE THEN
ACCIDENT
WASNT BY
ABOUT THE
LINED
THEN
STARTED
THINKING
WORLD TRADE CENTER HOWEVERYONE AMBULANCES AND THE
TERRORISTS
FIRE
UP
THE
TRUCKS AND
THOUGHT THE
LAST
KNOWEXACTLY HOW WE LINED UP
IT
TIME AND WRE DOING DID TIME
LINE
AGAIN
WE PRETTY MUCH
LAST
UP EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS THE
THAT
WAS MY WORDING
HONESTLY THERE
AT THAT POINT
TO RESCUE AT THE
WAS NO ONE
PART
TWO BUILDINGS
THE WORST
TO
WAS WHEN
TRAVELING
SURGEON CAME UP
ME
AS
WE WERE
AND
HS
LIKE
GUYS
LISTEN
MEDICS
WVE GOT FOUR SURGEONS
WERE SETTING
THAVS NICE
18 DOCTORS AND THEY
TOLD
UP
TRIAGE
POINT
HIM
GOING TO
BUT
DONT THINK
ANYONS
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COME
BECAUSE CAME OUT HAPPENED
THERE
WAS ONE
OF THE FEW UNITS
THAT
OF THERE
AND WHEN WE SAW WHAT
THAVS
WHY
ALIVE
LEFT
BECAUSE
BASICALLY
WAS NO ONE
WE JUST
IT
PULLED OUT
SEVERAL FIREFIGHTERS
AND THAVS
ELSE
WE WENT DO WE WERE
STILL
BACK
THERE WAS NOTHING
TO
CRAZY TO STAY THERE
BECAUSE YOU
HAD THIS
THING ABOUT AIRPLANES
GOING TO HIT OTHER
BUILDINGS
AND THE OTHER BUILDINGS
BUILDING
AROUND YOU WAS HIDING
HEARD THAT
WERENT SAFE BECAUSE THE
NEXT TO THAT ONE WAS LEANING
AND
ONE COLLAPSED TOO
IT
WAS BAD THAVS
ALL RIGHT
PRETTY
MUCH
IT
YOU HAVE NOTHING
ELSE
YOU
WANT
TO
ADD RIGHT
HOPE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND
TALK KIND OF FAST
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