Newspaper article on NYC Authority clean air projects in Queens,

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o o 4s to Stephen King Wy Bsttafim ^fety eWef on duty Bill 1 Tl c o' ■0 o 00 King and his aide. Bobby Craword, arrive inside the efl ;q- 0) to North Tower before the second They were choosing to icQOWi escape Stairway, We^ Standing there, ftahte we hwere:in,; We ?: o plane fats and begin checking die, and I was watching rescue stairway, - and we ’re looking up, tail back into the garage o o tl^ creators and stcurwcllst them and shouldn’t hive md we're trying not to c like that or what floor :-<Asybod^^to:v^ 3 been. So me and another they’re on. look at people jumping. the Wed. o

■ We ran into the lobby... 1 o said, “'Bobby, this is not going guy turned away and Someone comes run- #e really felt like we ^jrte: that-:wftfdb-'the.Teft;p to be a good day,". . . Tcough ■ : looked.at the waff.aud we ning over to the table and were' intruding on ^thern,' were I never expected that a tower Mi y might collapse... so we got ■■ could-still hear them hit .said,-“A:flreOghter;Ws-hir ■' ■ ■■And: the .building '.had:.:'.' Into the lobby. , .We looked by.a iuinpet.'He.ne©' red ^firep'aTihg offire-;'■■■; eMmwd:-by/ ■ around at the elevator banks. Nothing was in use We went We’re" s Landing at-the iaM-rU0y ■ They started pumpingi''-- this bwid-' around to the escalators. . . coituB^d'-ceater, listen-.- . : So a couple'ofguyA They weren’t functioaing. . . i^Totevetybody. gi-ve : ■went to the right- to -gi-Ye: stand We walked Into the first stair- wen and walked up one flight their positions. You ' this guy last rites with of stairs. There were people Father; [MychalJ Judge, I coming down... 1 would say that there was no panic. Proba­ iout-Lstarit^.^ bly shock but quite orderly j

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WiSliilii the third floor, people were comity down the stairwelL There was a large woman coming down the stairs, and I’m a big guy myself. When 1 was trying to pass her, she had ted bumped into me and caught me off balance. Anyway, I ended up kind of falling back- wards, . . (popped something »» is illSjilS in my knee anyway at that point in time ... It felt Oke I had popped a Ugamcni... I got like a piercing pab in. my i ’ head. . . After that we started to go up to the third floor and it became very dear to me that I could not do stairs very well My left foot, between the knee iW: *■ 'S': & and the ankle, was killing me. L’- That woman literally probably saved my life as things turned 4- out. .. ■

[Bobby] said. “Chief, Fm going to look in the hallway here at the second-floor level again." I stud, “ ‘OK, Bobby.’ • . . . {King looked for Crawford after that but never found him.) Anyway, I report back in . . . rm at the command post at this point. . . I’m in the North Tower. 1 hear some­ thing about an aircraft just struA the South Tower. And I don’t know that a plane has hit ? ' ■ the North-IWer... 1 remcm~ ber hearing something to the effect that the tower is collaps­ ing or coming down. I hear that and then I hear a rumble. 1 : • A firefighter pauses for a moment on a bench as he works In bwer Manhattan on Sept. 11. w remember a terrific rumbling, gettfr^ louder. Now I believe - Wc can’t see e^'h other. seconds and all of a sudden thing kind of calmed down. the way out,” and he saw. “Just . . . that roy tower that I’m in, We’re blind. We’re kind of you lust heard like h almost My c-fOcer just told overy- keep on going scra^hL” to the North Tower, is collapsing. gagging, 1 know everybody is actually that day sounded like oae. “Relax, just hold onto about another 25 feet to 50 This is the South Tower col­ absolnlely in shock. . . Any- bombs going off, like ‘'boom, each other.’’ He was radioing feet, there were wiodows, I lapsing, . .The noise be­ way, we work our way out of IxKjra. boom," like seven or the guy upstairs to see if he guess, lobby, ground*level comes deafening. I can feel the the building. . . eight, and then just a huge was alr^t. windows that were blown out. ground shaking, . . I think I wind gust just came Slid my My omcer knew how to and vre just walkedout of hollered out to the guys that nrefighter Thomas Turilti officer Just actually took all of actually get out, and we just there. were along with me. “Come Engine 47 us and just threw us down on Mid onto each other. Two guys I was with said back here under the arch.”, . , Tow 1 resc^ team thc.ground and kind of just There were security guards they were hurt. So my officer, ! •a '. The next thing I know Tm jumped on top of us, laid on and some civilians, and ne just myself and the few guys who gefxit^ buried tn debris. The Turilli arrived at the north top of us. told people, *7ust hold onto us, said they were hurt, we walked windows are shattering. Again. tower through the lobby of the There were rocks faJlbg and Oke a human chain, just grab . them ^oss the street and we I think it’s my tower. . . You Marriott Hotei. He ws waiftog all that The lights were still on onto another person and we ll bfoui'ht them to an ambulaKe. can’t miss the noise. You can at the lobby near the elevator at that point and all of a sud­ make our way out," Wc went > feel the ah pressure building i^mks ^r a crew of den the U^s went out and about 20 feet, 25 feet, and we 2 2 up. I mean, literally, It blows ershadgoneup. you couidBl see anythtog. . . saw a light lames Curran 5-. thewin^ws m . . . I noticed It There was a tot of dust md all of that of stuff. After ft turned to be a light of ahobstWlgi^arettaiiraiit.. M^rsixW^de - PHOTO BV OIpOn WIJVAN ‘ I * > and I'm Hkc—-I’mirt^shod/ ?'5-' up,and h^fa de •'* dixMt ahSfcii^WsB,^^ n area;Hes^i W,fhatinot^ >::■ Tower 1W»tern - ; ' ■' O ov x^8 k>- /ur • - C H .V^ * >1 f'O bt^o-jS /b