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I Guys were just saying it^S time tO gO, this isn’t safe to I thought I was Watching a movie with special effects. . . 0 o o c 3 to Rescue workers remove o Firefighter Frank Camp^iw . Ladder n in Manhattan debris from the rubWe two I Me Tower One 'i days after the attack. I “As far as we knew, there a were no planes or anything I remember the captain I coming in. There wasn't even a saying, 1 guess the chief told I pbne that hit that buildup We him, we’re nor crying to put ? just knew (here was a fire up the fire out now. We’re gomg ”■ there. . . to try to save people.

!I Any other explosions that we felt from imide were maybe extra machinery or jf -k We took it (the elevator] to the 24th or 25th floor and then we walked up a couple of g something like that Those flights. . . Ihere was a tremen­ werethe words that we were Ai; dous crash of the south tower B getting. . . coming down, but we didn’t We got up to about the 17ih know at the time it was the Tii floor, and we felt another south tower. We just thought it pretty big explosion. . .After was upper floors maybe that that happened, the building maybe an upper floor that had O was still standing, everybe^y 15 collapsed, because there was a kept going up . . . trcmendcnis crash and every­ @ 2 We got up to about the 28th. 30th flexor, and we were taking another break. ’There body just hit the deck. Nothing happened after that so we really weren’t suns what was 1 ® was an office or we had a happening. We weren’t really « '■ ^5. whole floor foil of people. A getting any radio communica- chief came down from a floor tioTw. . . And then ! guess above with another company a after another couple of min­ g O and said everybody evacuate. everybody out now. fl utes the battalion chief. . . saidl, “We're evacuating”. . . :x We had lo switch suircas- . . . The stairs were very es. I believe the staircase we crowded. Guys were helping 2^ were in, there was i» way >1 civilians ^ill coming down. ‘i « g down it anymore on the foWer level. There was word th^ It had been taken out; we don’t I There was a person in a wheel­ chair. So the descent down probably took 15 to 20 minutes know what from. So wa Rf . . ". Sonwbody was saying in (he switched to a dJfforent stair- lobby,‘‘Somebodyhit. . . g case, .«-'■■ ■ ' • i: [by] a jumper. You guys gotta be We headed dowx We let (he civilians go first . . . ■I b?? careful even leaving the buIW- inj^’ . . . I guess we just hit West L*? ''

We got down to (he lobby, and Street when we heard the roar ® therms a lot of guys down or (he rumhlmj.; We just looked S there in the lobby itself along back and heard the rumbling of with 4 Engine. Everyone is the towercoiaii^down. . .It •K standing there, waiting lo bear Hi'diK was kind of lite you knew that whafs going to happen next, K’ J the du5t and everythit^ was aj- what’s going on. catching you. 'the mys just fe Guys were just saying it’s time to go, this isn’t safe to 1#^' started diving, tried to dive behind something ard then dust stay in here. and other debris just overcame So I believe wc headed out everybody. hf along the wall of the Trade. K and I believe 18 followed us Paramedic Keviii parnowshi S out. That was it It came down Battalion 20 in Ite Bronx y on top of us. That's all Ire- On his way to work from <1 § member of who followed us Brooklyn, Damowski sees out or I heard who followed us Tower burning. His fiancee out. r works on the 98th floor. He 4 Engine obviously didn't <• t^ts to go to the scene to help: make it out.'fhey were with us f 5< : ^ As I beaded down towards the whole time, so I’m assum- ‘bkbJfc^jLi the scene. I was trying to call ing they were still in the lobby my fiancee in her c^fiee, and at that time... there was no answer on the phone. It just k^t avlng me a busy signal. I tried her cell ,2 phone, and there was no an­ swer on her coll phone. . . i§ I *"“1 tSxX<<, 4 .'if.. :• ’ f J When we finally got through the tuimel to the other side. 1 parked ray car on the corner of Carlisle and ’West Side High­ way, West Street, and I pre­ ceded northbound on West Street towards the command center or what 1 believed to be the command center at that time. 1 went along (he center 16^ J? median, meanwhile, lookup up at the towers in disbelief and I basically sheer awe at what Rescuers remove rubble it Ground Zero A*P/ btllv WA«S wore was going on. None of us at ); the Battery Tunnel knew what equipmem. So we went back ers starts screamings ’ijxik up!” fust — the best word to describe situation ... I called my was going on until the second over to the pedestnao bridge in Everybody looks up, aftd we it was pure chaos . . . house to sec if there were plane hit. Right then we knew front ofTfeee Pmaocial Center. were watching the people jump Capt. Fenton told a lieuten­ any messages on the answer­ B S Rrftfightersata Sept 23, it was a terroTist attack - . . [ChiefGoldfarb). . .toldme We were standing un»te*diHr© with the Fire Department com­ out of One World Tower Center and hitting the overhang in front ant from the Bellevue station that was on the scene to take ing machine, and there was a message from a nurse at $ S 2001. vigil in Huntington for .d regarding patient care-wise that mand center. We were attempt­ of World Trade Center where me back to the station, be­ Brooklyn hospital saying my ,o don’t bother with patient care, ing to set up a command center the taxis would let people oft’ cause 1 could be of no use fiancee was at Brooklyn $ .JI just with moving patients and Ebw, wlwo one of href^gbt- , patient carc-wite ^ven m^' SW OK,*; -

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