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Tl co o a. 0) CD to I ■ O o o c 3 o Z3 10 I thought I guess this is what it's like tO be dead. Then I There was nothing. Absolutely nothing Firefighter Timothy Brown Office of Emergency Managernart OEM’s offices are in Seven World Trade Center. so we were there when the first plane hit... I walked in the wallway between (World Trade Center! five and six . . . The whole plaza area was bumlog debris, plane parts and bodies ... I went into the lobby of One World Trade Center. A lot of people were self-evacuat­ ing very orderly, quickly. People were helping each other... I went past the core of the building where I '■■ ■> w the stairwells were. There were a lot of fire­ men there , . . The people I IS?: remember seeing were ‘Terry Hatton and Chris Blackwell. Terry Hatton from Rescue I nnm 'ti liiO and Chris Blackwell from Rescue 3. I gave them both bugs. Terry said to me. "I love you, brother. It might Ik- be the last time I see you." Then he went in the stair­ n.•S' well. Then Chris Blackwell looked at me and said. '‘This ?• ■* • isn’t good. Tim." That was the last 1 saw him also . . . W I ran into the doors of the Two World Trade on the Liberty Street side . . . Again, an orderly evacuation of Two. A lot of people were leaving . . . Someone had come to me ra and said that there were peo­ ple trapped in one of those elevators. So 1 ran around the I

w comer, and the. , , doors were open, but the elevator car was only showing about two feet at the top of the door. You could see all the legs I l&’j of the people that were in the elevator. I would guess there were about eight peo­ All ple in the elevator. The -rc’hS elevator pit was on fire with

Bill the jet fuel. People were screaming in the elevator. They were getting smoked

Kilis ... .A,' and cooked ... I grabbed some of the Port Authority employees and asked them where the fire extinguishers 1^/ were and told them to get as many fire extinguishers as they could so we could try and fight this fire. As they were doing that, firemen started showing up ... " Lt. Glen Rohan A" PHOTO ?00 Ladtbr 42 in I raa into Chief Ferran of Lt. Warren Smftb were telling them to ^y to the The evacuation was orderly. on Channel 6. and Channel I just triage areas. I think (here the 12th Battalion, who at Ladder Con^ny Na 9. right, trying to calm them down, There was no panic... I’ve may have been so bogged down was another one over on « that time told me that we Was al Tower One after both planes let them kriow they were ont of worked in Manhattan my whole that it may have been impossi- Liberty and ChurcK another have some members that are Wl harm’s way... We got up to. I career in high-nscs and every- ble to get that order through. section there we heard trapped and on the radio in We walked in there, vrent guess, about the 3Jst floor... thing else. I worked in midtown. Fm sure they tried. around the corner. So there One World Trade Center. 1 into (he lobby, saw the lobby Radios were very difficult to use When you gel the order (o were (Kings sort of happen­ said, ‘(ireat. We've got a command post, reported to the ... The other building went evacuate a high-rise buildir^, Capt. JIanicA OlstewskI ing all over. So it’s kind of le.'im. Let's get them.' It chief... We got an order to go down. We did not know what it you know something’s. .. be- EMS operations. hard to get an estimate of was a relief to gel an assign­ up the stairway... No specinc was... 1 thought it was anotber yond what we can hai«i^. U-maL Set up triage area in front oi the how many patients were in ment, because it was such a CM-ders or anything like that, just plane hitdng our building be­ ly we just regroup on a lower Mtiieniam Hotel 3l Cbutdi and Fulton that area,[After the second chaotic experience going on go up. see what you can do, cause it just shook like we were floor... It was sl^ ^ing on The people were pouring tower collapsed, she ran down there. basically. I think everybody was tn an earthquake. Wc were near the way down. A lot of finemen out of the buildings, and lot north, flagged an ambaiance.l We worked our way pretty much overwhelmed at a stairwell. The guys that were we were picking up <Ki the way of them were coming over to I waved, I flagged one down. through (building) No. 5 into that point because just shortly near the stairwell went up the down dwbj’t know that the on^r our area. I cannot estimate One of them stopped. I got what w'e thought would be before that the other plane stairwell. The building stopped to evacuate was gives because 1 how many. It’s impossible. in, and 1 said, Turn around the crater area of the center. hit. to you could see the confu- shaking. The Ikhts werK out.., think, if you weren't itear a They were all over the place. and just go nonh, because I This Richie was Chief Pic- aon and everything etee at the Shortly thereafter we got the chief, from guys I tali^ to, you They were on the comer. don’t know what’s going on 7. 5o ciotto. Aad the only way lobby command post. So wc order to evacuate. We passed didn't get that order, at teast mX We were trying to keep down there. It’s too danger­ m

5 s Z HAAMvTw (hat we found him was that be bad a siren with him. He went up... WoTfeng our way up was slow going because we had that order on to everyt^y that was with us on that floor.. .So as quickly, I thui it came over later. I didn’t hear it myself. But them corralled In our area, but other agencies were ous. Let’s try to get a little funher north.' CT > A firefighter emerges from debris. Said one about the towers: "All It was was rubble. It was steel that had collapsed Inward." had a bullhorn that’s carried civilians coming down We we started making our way out. the order to evacuate caxre over breaking off into other Utile