DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Mayor of the Moment \ Whatever he has been before or will be in the liani, like other surviving New Yorkers, with future. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became the leader the silt graying his hair and dusting his shoulders. Jlfew York City needed in its worst moment. With Even a day later, as he roamed through Manhattan, ^ttle rhetoric and less poetry, he consoled a stunned his soot-covered shoes offered a reminder that he populace trying to make sense through the smoke had been running the city at street level. ^d beyond the jagged skyline. With phrases aimed A man who has been known to dislike sharing people rather than the history books, Mr. Giuliani the microphone suddenly was standing shoulder to Eflllied a city to “go back to normal,’’ to start going shoulder with regular adversaries like Gov. George to. restaurants, to try to work or go to school as a Pataki, Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clin­ •way to show its unbroken spirit. ton, Representative Charles Rangel. Even Mr. Giu­ While demanding that citizens reach into the liani’s old enemies offered praise. Former Mayor dfepths of their natural fortitude, he also warned Ed Koch, who has written an entire book describing them not to behave badly, hitting a more familiar Mr. Giuliani as a “Nasty Man,’’ noted pointedly that itete when he threatened to levy on anyone caught the mayor had done an excellent job and that “some ^uging his fellow New Yorkers a fine of $500 per flawed people, in extraordinary times, lose their overpriced item. He pleaded for understanding for defects.’’ Mr. Pataki, too, has been a calm and we city’s Arab community, noting that hatred consoling figure for New York. Watching his tall against others is “what we’re dealing with right figure move through the crowds next to Mr. Giuli­ npw.’’ And over all, he talked about how New York ani, people could see state and city working as a wuld emerge better and stronger, how his city team on behalf of a profound, shared concern. would never bow to mere terrorism. In the days ahead, the city will have different - A few scenes stand out. When the disaster hit, needs as New Yorkers suffer through the various the mayor, who always identifies with the police and stages of individual and communal grief. We will firefighters, acted like one of them and headed mourn and need comforting, pastoral relief. We will sl,raight for the explosion. When the first of the be angry and need a calming voice that leads to an World Trade Center towers collapsed, he was at a unnatural patience and restraint. Through these temporary command bunker less than two blocks aftershocks, we hope Mr. Giuliani can continue to away. He and his aides had to scramble out of the guide us as expertly as he has since Tuesday building and through the storm of dust and debris to morning. Until then, he deserves our gratitude for safety. Early television interviews showed Mr. Giu- being there to start the city’s revival.

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