Newspaper article on NYC Authority clean air projects in Queens,

■ ■ z z -< o — -< o CD —I 31 rs o o o 1 felt like I was intriiOSngon a move myself. I really thought at one point i was dead Tl c CT o' ■0 co o lapsed. 1 ran north up the thing. Somebody pointed to Zk 03 0) 03 West Side Highway, ' my feet I looked, and there was a body on the floor. So o o --------------- ---------- ‘ -...... . ' U. William Ryan apparently he’s what brushed o c ■ ladder 85 in Statefl Island against me, hitting me in the 3 9) route by toot from lf» Staten back, because it wasn’t there, it o waiting for assignments. arid then after-thaf / bl^ terry was behind me. . . Z3 McArM-ScIwli^ni Somebody yelled knew what it was. And Wc heard a rumbling, Wc

liliromTDNSlll ass^feitoEi|^35 Firefighter first grade, in Manhattan something was falling. We didn't know if it was part of an airplane com­ they were just, like, con­ stant. > 1/ J didn-t see anyone i ■" We picked up our first May- day. . . the guy toldus,*'May- efay. Mayday. Engine 65 with a Mayi^. I’m Sluck in my tig. thought it was another plane. We looked up, and you actu­ ally saw the towers just starting to rull down at you.

■ ing dut> if it was desks. landing on the ground in , My rig is on fire.” The chief You saw the building por­ just asked him, ‘"Where are tions coming down. I stood We went It turned out it was peo- front of us. Most of youf*” He said, “'t'he last I there and couldn't move. I to the com- center ple^ and they started coming out, one after 'them '.were hitting ■ the ,.■ ■'<;' .setback JWstai across?.' ■; ifrW'S 1 remember, I was parked on West Street about 50 yards north of Liberty." just couldn’t move. I couldn’t believe what 1 was looking at. A couple seconds later I ■e < 'another; the street in-: the -parking' ■: We txMjJdn’t tell where we turned around and started to wasalready / //We saw the.jumpers ::: were. I mean. I’d even worked go. You just saw a sea of d'cpmhig. We'didn’t’ ' sick: I felt like I was: ■<.■ n there seven years. I humanity. Before that we loMJw where I was stand-' were at the command post. /.Wliat if'Was' .at'.first; but intru on a saera-^. n the stoeeL Visibility " Chief Nigro and Chief Ganci then the first body hit possibly 30 feet at best, and were behind me. and they you could only see shadows. just couldn’t believe the You couM see sevortd fires, human devastation of watch­ dozens of fires, things blowing ing people jumping out of Viy-; up, cars on .fire, fire trucks, 113 the upper floos-s. 'I*hey were whore I was workir^ for a hitting the ground and be- while on fire. I’ve never seen .... .cause of the force of hitting Bi anything like it No one ever the ground, they would break has. Chac^. open and blood was splatter­ So we find a street post and ing and body parts and you we dust off the sign and wc see could see them hitting the we’re at Liberty and West. . . ground and bouncing and Guys got in there and they parts bouncing up . . . ended up getting the guy from You just heard a rumbling ' -.M 65 out, ana he was banged up pretty good. That was the and you heard things, and It got very black. You couldn't chauffeur. I don’t even know see anything, nothing. There his name. . . I assume he was wa.s no light. I couldn’t move under about two or three my legs. I couldn’t move I stories of l-beam.s. myself I really thought at 1 ran into the probie from 5 one point 1 was dead. I 'rruck that I knew, Frucci, Bill couldn’t sec my hand. 1 Frucci, and he survived both couldn't think of anything. I collapses... 1 found him was in no pain. I just really stumbUiig around. He was thought 1 was dead. ... I covered with debris. I asked started talking to myself and him wlsere the rest of 5 was then Koger Moore, in a cou­ aud he w-as like. ‘‘They’re all ple of seconds, moans and isO' -€*0 dead,” I said. ‘‘What do you mexm?” He said, “Welk they're tells nic IO “shut up. You’re ■ ' I nor dead . . ,” Id the tower...” Later on, « couple of hours He ended up telling me later into this. Chief Feruggia ,r that Lt. :htMa wouldn’t let turned white as a gho.st. He him in the building. He or­ grabs everybody §nd tells dered him to stay outside. . . them that they found the / di I know now tiwt they were in the North Tower... 24 commissioner and they found Chief Ganci, and they were Engine was in the same house both killed. We couldn’t get with them. They survivixl A body bags. We were talking ..... ,...L....... , J Lieutenant from there told me to corrections, and wc kept they were both on the 57th telling them where to bring floor together and some chief the bags. Not hard. You came ninaing by and told couMn^i understand why tberr to drop Iheir gear and get ihoy coidda’t figure out out. He said they had no com- where it was. b^ause there munkations on tlw ha«die-r;dk- was no street, 'fhere were no Wc got back to the escala­ I called my mother from the around, 1 guess waiting for ies. Thai was the only message street signs. ’Ihere were no tors, and the police had people 30th floor, i was talking to her an order. (when] they got. 5 Truck weal right. roarkir^s. The bridge took running down both escalators on the news when she freaked, Danny Murphy made the 24 Engine went left. 5 is everything down, the walk­ tryuig to keep them calm. We She watched Tower Two call. He was like “Tower dead. 24 is all alive. way,” finally got them to channel come down while wc were on l‘wo went down. What’s They have a story of their them ail down one, so we the 3(>fh floor. I told her “I will holding this one up? I think Own. They ended op carrying EMS CW«f Fran Pascaie B could get up. . . The building shook aod call you back. I got to go.” She we should leave.” Il was some woniatn down the whole Befexe Tower 1 colfapsed didn’t know if we were going almost like that’s the call way, not the whole way, nine vibrated, I was sitting right up or down at this point everyone was waiting on. All stories. ft was the most disorganized next to the first elevator shaft, Afler being told to evacuate, the heads turned and they feeling Pvc ever felt. I could just my sleeve was in front of at the ninth floor an engineer started filing out. Captain Howard Sleides say that there was no seme of me. There was a breeze stmng told us we are going to switch A guy started screamii^ to Conmanding officer of EMS bciog organized. It was an enough coming out. It ruffled staircases because at that point run. When I got underneath impossible thing to be orga­ Hi my shiri and we all lost dove Ihid was the staircase everyone the north bri^e looked back In lobby of Tower 1 nized. But even though you

^aB^ga HBi^k into the stairway. Thea it subsided. At this p^t, the air ted iovLiid blocked when they got to the bottom at that point and you heard it, like every floor went chu chu chw. Actually as I exited the were tempted at certain points to try to get yourself up and z m condbinner was still working. we switched to staircase, Looked back and from the bunding I somebody running. , , well, T guess we •v-f'’? Everything in the building was Firef^hters from about 10 pressure everything was hit me ftxMn tte back, ta^ed could throw that In the gar^ LU companies were In the lobby, . getting blow out the oamy back. I bagethatday.Hlustdidn’t Firefighters gather at Ground Zero after the attack on Sept. 11,2001 dida'i koow'wlitt.tt They were all standing ■ ' 'fioorsbefore it acteafiy col- fflound and didn’t see any- work It just dWn’t work.