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VI tool EMS Tape 2

EMS TAPE 2

WORLD TRADE CENTER 911 EMS TELEPHONE CALLS September 11, 2001

Transcribed by Laurie A. Collins

EMS Tape 2 RECORDER:

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The following portion of

tape begins at 0918 hours, 14 seconds, taken from position 10, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. OPERATOR: CRO:

1128.

What borough?

OPERATOR: okay.

Manhattan.

Okay.

We're going to —

The booth is Nora 95

Broadway/Nassau. CRO:

95.

OPERATOR: CRO: Go ahead.

Now, you know what's —

Do you have Broadway and Nassau?

What they have? OPERATOR:

We've got a female bleeding.

She's in front of the booth. CRO:

Geez.

In front of the booth?

OPERATOR:

Yeah, she's in front of the

booth, and she's bleeding. CRO:

Assign an CN number?

OPERATOR: CRO:

The CN number is 102861.

And this is possibly you think

from the Trade Center? OPERATOR:

It's debris probably coming

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from everywhere.

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This is Broadway/Nassau.

That's not too far.

As a matter of fact, that's

across the street. CRO:

Center across the street.

OPERATOR:

Now, that's not in the job.

I'm just going by what I know. Broadway/Nassau.

It says Nora 95

That's how we got it.

it from our stations department.

We got

The female

aided is in front of the booth. CRO: I've got it.

Okay. Okay.

Wait a minute.

OPERATOR: CRO: is 788, 788.

What's the CN number?

The CN number is 102861.

Okay.

My job number on this one

You can cross-reference

it in case

they cross-reference it with the job number of the Trade Center.

Trade Center number of the job

is 727. OPERATOR: CRO:

Yeah.

OPERATOR: CRO:

That's the Trade Center job.

Right.

OPERATOR: CRO:

727?

Okay.

Okay, AC?

OPERATOR:

Okay.

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CRO:

Thanks a lot.

OPERATOR: CRO:

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All right.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0919 hours, 44 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 1002 hours, 16 seconds, taken from position 10, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September 11, 2001. CRO:

8600.

OPERATOR: into Manhattan. CRO:

8600, this is 2146, going

The caller is on the line. Caller, this is EMS.

Is the

patient breathing? CALLER: CRO:

Is she conscious?

CALLER: CRO:

Yeah.

How old is she, more or less?

CALLER: CRO:

Yes, she is.

She's in her forties.

In her forties?

address there? CALLER: CRO:

250 Hudson.

250 Hudson?

CALLER:

Uh-huh.

What's your

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CRO: location.

Okay.

Hold on.

5

We'll verify the

I have it as 250 Hudson near Spring

Street; is that correct? CALLER: CRO:

Yes, ma'am.

And what's wrong with her?

CALLER:

She —

the building fell, and

she just can't breathe. CRO:

She's having difficulty

breathing? CALLER: CRO:

Yeah.

Okay.

She's not asthma or

anything; it's just excited; right? CALLER: CRO:

Yeah.

Anxiety; right.

CALLER: CRO:

Yeah.

I want you to take a deep breath

at the location.

I want you to calm down.

ambulance will be there as soon as possible.

An Are

you near that building? CALLER: Yes. CRO:

How far

CALLER:

are

you?

I'm about three, four blocks

away. CRO:

You're at a safe distance right

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You are safe; correct? CALLER: GRO:

There's no fire in the building.

CALLER: CRO:

Yeah.

No.

There's nothing —

you to take a breather.

okay.

I want

Everyone is there.

Everybody is on their way there.

They're there.

Everybody's helping there. CALLER: CRO:

Yeah, okay.

Okay?

Have her calm down.

The

only thing I can tell you to do is because of the accident and what's happening, you're going to have to take some first aid instructions.

Make

sure you don't give her anything to eat or drink. Relax.

Tell her to loosen any tight clothing.

Put on something like music, anything to calm anybody down.

An ambulance will be there as soon

as possible. CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

250 Hudson Street with Spring

Street on the cross. CALLER: OPERATOR: CALLER:

Is there a floor?

Huh? llth floor. llth floor.

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

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What's your last name?

CALLER: OPERATOR:

Velez, V-E-L-E-Z. RO, I need a job number,

please. CRO:

My job number is 969.

I need

your job number too, AC. OPERATOR: CRO:

You're not entering jobs?

OPERATOR: CRO:

We're not entering jobs.

No.

Let me get a call back.

OPERATOR:

The call back there is I

(212) — CRO:

Go ahead.

OPERATOR:

— 741-0317.

And your job number, I'm sorry? CRO:

My job number is 969.

CRO (to caller: OPERATOR: CRO:

—

Ma'am

—

969. everybody is on their way.

We're all working hard to try to get this on; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Thank you so much.

Calm down; okay?

OPERATOR:

Ms. Velez, they'll be there.

EMS Tape 2 CALLER: CRO:

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Thank you.

Bye-bye.

AC — OPERATOR: CRO:

Yes.

You've got my job number?

OPERATOR: CRO:

Okay.

AC?

OPERATOR: CRO:

969, yes.

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

969.

Yeah.

.

No number at all; right?

No

temporary number, nothing? OPERATOR:

No job number right now.

We're not entering any jobs. CRO:

Okay.

Thanks, AC.

OPERATOR:

Okay.

Bye-bye.

RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 1004 hours, 24 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 0907 hours, 57 seconds, taken from position 12, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. CRO:

EMS 8652.

OPERATOR:

8652.

I'm 20 -- 8652, I'm

EMS Tape 2 2035.

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We're going to Manhattan, World Trade. CALLER:

Yes, listen, I'm looking for

the EMS Transit. CRO:

Okay.

What else do you have for

me? CALLER: CRO:

Hello?

Okay.

CALLER:

Yes.

Yes, okay.

Basically what

happened is we were standing on the sixth floor of Pratt Institute in the — CALLER (to second person):

Is this the

main building? MALE SPEAKER: CALLER: Institute.

Yes.

The main building of Pratt

And we were watching smoke billow out

of the first one with the very high antenna on it of the twin hours. CRO:

Right.

CALLER:

And as we were standing there,

this very large black plane —

it looked like a

military plane -- came down and either hit into it or bombed it. have crashed.

But if it hit into it, it would

I think-it got bombed.

watched the Trade Center blow up.

And we

It's not

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blowing apart but -CRO: just happen?

Okay.

Right, ma'am, did this

Because you know this call is

already in; right? CALLER:

Okay, yeah.

We just watched

it happened. CRO: seconds ago?

You just watched it a couple Another plane hit the building?

CALLER: minutes passed.

No, no, no.

About five

We called 911.

We didn't know

how many people were calling in. CRO: Okay?

Ma'am, we have a lot of calls in.

All right. CALLER:

Thank you for calling. All right.

RECORDER:

Bye-bye.

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0909 hours, 09 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 0909 hours, 10 seconds, taken from position 12, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. CRO:

EMS, 8652.

OPERATOR: at the World Trade. CRO:

8652, we've got another one It's an additional building.

I don't know why these people

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keep calling. OPERATOR: CRO:

This is a new one, though.

A new one?

OPERATOR:

Yeah.

This is a different

one, and it's confirmed. CRO:

Okay, okay.

All right.

Enter

(inaudible). OPERATOR: CRO:

All right.

One second.

Another plane now?

OPERATOR:

Another plane.

This is a

whole new thing now. CRO:

Okay.

All right.

What is going

on?

OPERATOR:

They're saying it might be a

terrorist attack. CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR:

It would have to be because

what are the odds of two planes crashing into the same building; okay? CRO:

That is just

Ironic.

—

Let me see.

Now our

system is down. OPERATOR: CRO:

Your system is down?

Oh, my goodness.

OPERATOR:

Okay.

Okay.

I'm just

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going —

it's still One World Trade Center;

right? CRO:

Yeah.

OPERATOR: CRO:

I'm just going to put it in.

All right.

OPERATOR:

One World Trade Center.

Okay. CRO:

I need more than one slip.

OPERATOR: It's got to be — CRO:

Okay.

I can't believe this.

it's got to be hell.

This call from the 22nd floor,

I'm just going to put that back in.

Or is it a

different location? OPERATOR:

He didn't give the exact

location. CRO:

He didn't?

OPERATOR: the building.

He said it's on the side of

The plane blew up on the side of

the building and it blew the building up.

Do you

want the ANI-ALI information? CRO:

Yeah.

OPERATOR:

I'll have to spell his name.

Are you ready? CRO:

Oh, yeah, go ahead.

EMS Tape 2 OPERATOR:

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The last name isj

Yeah, I'm back up. CRO:

All right.

into building, blowing up. Blowing up.

Second plane crashed This is -- oh, man.

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

Okay?

Thank you.

Thank you. I- '

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OPERATOR:

Bye-bye.

RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0911 hours, 38 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 0913 hours, 31 seconds, taken from position 12, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. CRO:

EMS 8652.

OPERATOR:

8652, this is 1339 in the

borough of Manhattan. CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

Caller is on the line.

Caller Manhattan, hi.

EMS Tape 2 CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

Yes, he is.

Still awake?

CALLER: CRO:

He's about 33 to -- 33 or 34.

Yes.

What happened?

CALLER: the world —

And how old is he?

34?

CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

Okay.

CALLER: CRO:

$v

Is the patient still breathing?

CALLER: CRO:

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He was —

we are down here by

World Trade Center and stuff, and

everybody was running because a plane just crashed into the building.

And he was having a

slight asthma attack. CRO:

Asthma attack.

CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

Okay.

Are you with him right

now? CALLER:

I'm in a different location

right now because I had to use the phone. CRO:

All right.

keep him sitting up.

When you get to him,

Loosen up his clothing

around his neck and chest and waist area.

EMS Tape 2 Okay.

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Let me just verify the address.

Hold on one moment. CALLER:

Okay.

CRO (to operator): OPERATOR: CRO:

Are you still down?

No, we've got a backup.

Hold on.

Is it 230 East 49th

Street? OPERATOR:

No.

CRO:

Okay.

No?

OPERATOR:

Do you want me to read it to

you? CRO:

1 ' . • I don't see it. Maybe you're

down. OPERATOR: CALLER: CRO: moment.

333 Rector Place? Yes.

333 Rector Place.

Hold on one

333 Rector — CALLER:

They're going to do it anyway

because the FBI, everybody's coming down. CRO:

Okay.

He's in front of or

inside? CALLER: CRO:

He's inside in the lobby.

In the lobby.

CALLER:

Yeah.

Okay.

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

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We'll be there shortly, sir;

okay? CALLER: CRO:

All right.

CALLER: CRO:

Okay, thanks.

Okay.

Bye.

You should see how many people is

outside here. RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0914 hours, 58 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 0907 hours, 17 seconds, taken from position 13, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001 CRO:

EMS 8709.

CALLER:

Okay, 8709, we need numerous

EMS personnel at World Trade Center. second explosion.

We've got a

We need numerous EMS personnel

to respond. CRO:

Okay.

Hold on, sir.

Hold on,

miss. CALLER:

Warren and Broadway, a woman's

bleeding from the head. OPERATOR:

EMS, what's your number?

EMS, what's your number, please?

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

8709.

OPERATOR:

CRO:

8709?

Yes.

OPERATOR:

We have a woman —

OPERATOR (to caller) CALLER: Street.

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where at?

We need one at Chambers

We need one at Warren and Broadway. CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

Just one —

Warren and Broadway?

Okay.

This is One World Trade

Center; right? OPERATOR: CALLER:

Warren and Broadway; right? Yes.

OPERATOR: CALLER:

And the other one at where? Barclay Street.

OPERATOR: CALLER: CRO:

Barclay Street? Yes.

Okay.

I don't know who I'm

talking to. CALLER:

(Inaudible) transit.

talking to transit 1622. CRO:

162?

CALLER: CRO:

1632, 1632.

It's Manhattan?

You're

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EMS Tape 2 CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

Okay.

OPERATOR:

Okay, one at Warren Street

and Broadway, one at Barclay.

What are the cross

streets? CRO:

Warren and Broadway?

OPERATOR:

EMS at Barclay Street.

What's your exact -CRO:

I'm getting confused here.

I'm

hearing too many locations. OPERATOR: locations.

Two locations, two

I need one at Warren and Broadway.

That's one.

The other one is Barclay, but we're

trying to ascertain the cross street. CRO: in Manhattan.

Okay. Okay.

Okay.

Warren and Broadway

There's also a West

Broadway, so this is regular Broadway; right? OPERATOR: ascertain.

No, we're just trying to

This is Barclay at this time.

all in that area, all in the same area.

It's We need

all the person -- we need all the personnel over there.

We've got two planes crashed into the

World Trade Center. terrorist act.

We're dealing with a

So please send all your necessary

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personnel there, please. CRO:

Right, okay.

working on that; okay? right?

Our dispatchers are

I'm just the CRO; all

You need numerous personnel.

Are you

injured yourself? CALLER: CRO:

No.

I'm just excited.

Oh, okay.

Try to calm down;

okay? CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

You need numerous EMS.

You have

multiple — CALLER:

Yes.

OPERATOR (to second person): knows.

She

I got it. OPERATOR:

quick wire.

Run to —

where?

Tell them to stop —

Run to the

to make all

trains bypass the World Trade. CRO:

Okay.

We have people —

we have

a lot of people injured with trauma. SECOND PERSON: CRO:

Please help us.

Hello?

OPERATOR:

Tell them all trains bypass

the World Trade. CRO:

Hello?

Hello?

EMS Tape 2 CALLER: CRO:

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Yes, hi.

Okay.

We have trauma going on in

this area; right? OPERATOR:

Yes, a lot.

Two planes

crashed into the World Trade Center. CRO:

We know there's two —

we know

there was the first one. OPERATOR: CRO:

There's two, a second one.

All right.

happened, right.

A second one just

So now there's a lot of people.

Okay. OPERATOR:

So just send as many

ambulances. CRO: okay?

Miss, they're working on it;

It's an MCI.

What I'm just trying to

figure out is I'm coming up with a lot of different things going on here, and I'm just trying to make sure I've got the right address. OPERATOR: hurt.

There are a lot of people

A lot of people are hurt.

Okay? . Just

send them in the area. CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR: everywhere.

There are people hurt

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CRO:

Right.

OPERATOR: CRO:

All right.

Okay.

Okay.

Bye-bye.

Thank you.

CALLER: CRO:

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You're welcome.

Bye-bye.

RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0910 hours, 20 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 0911 hours, 11 seconds, taken from position 13, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. I. ' ' CRO: EMS 8709. OPERATOR: CRO:

8709?

Uh-huh.

OPERATOR:

2235.

Caller on the line

from Manhattan, World Trade Center. CRO:

Okay.

CALLER:

I'm on the 106th floor.

I

need some direction on how to maintain a hundred people in a room. CRO:

Okay.

Hold on, sir.

Hold on,

sir. CRO (to lieutenant):

Lieutenant, I've

got a guy on the 106th floor and he wants to know

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EMS Tape 2 how to deal with a hundred people. directions.

He wants some

I don't know.

MALE SPEAKER:

Apparently a plane hit

like 20 stories below you guys. CALLER:

A plane hit 20 stories below

us. CRO:

Hello?

CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

You figure you've got a hundred

people where? CALLER: a hundred people.

I'm on the 106th floor. We're in a room.

About

We're

wondering if we should open a window or not.

The

smoke is filling up this room pretty quickly. CRO:

106th floor.

You guys trapped in

there? CALLER:

Yeah, we're trapped.

We can't

get to the stairwell, obviously the elevators. CRO:

You can't get to the stairway.

You can't get to the elevators. CALLER:

Yeah.

We have a couple of

people that work in the building, but we have no direction.

We don't know what to do.

break the windows?

Should we

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EMS Tape 2 CRO:

Is there a fire going on?

CALLER:

We see smoke outside the

windows we're in — CRO:

You see smoke.

CALLER: CRO: are?

—

but not a lot of smoke.

But there's no fire in where you

Then it should be all right to open the

window. CALLER:

Yeah, okay.

CALLER (to others at scene):

We have

some directions (inaudible).

We need to open — I we need to get one of these windows open. Let's open it at the top. CRO:

Sir, do you have 100 people or

120 people? CALLER: CRO:

There's 100 people.

100 people.

CALLER:

I don't know how many.

100,

120 something. CRO:

Okay.

CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

Who am I on the phone with?

This is 911, hon, 911.

This is

emergency, this is Fire Department. CALLER:

There is some discrepancy here

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about whether or not we should open a window. CRO:

Okay.

If there's no fire that

you can see — CALLER:

We can't see any flames.

We

can't see any flames. CRO:

Okay.

Is anybody coughing in

there or anything? CALLER: smoke.

Oh, yeah.

There's a load of

We're all (inaudible), and there's a lot

of smoke. CRO:

You should be able to open a

window as long as there's no fire going on, because if you have a fire going on and you open a window, you would be feeding the fire. CALLER:

Going on where?

Inside or

outside? CRO: don't —

As far as we know, the fire — we

we haven't had any reports of any fires.

But it's just that there are — CALLER: fires?

There's no reports of any

So what's with all the smoke? CRO:

You don't understand?

know what's going on, what happened? what you're telling me, sir?

You don't Is that

You don't know what

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has happened; right? CALLER:

I know that a plane hit the

building. CRO:

Okay.

CALLER:

We're on the 106th floor, a

hundred people in a room. CRO:

Okay.

A plane hit the building,

and there has been another plane that hit the building.

I don't know if it's the same

building. CALLER:

I don't care about that, .just

tell us what we need to do to breathe. CRO: the window.

Okay.

Right at this point open

If you see a window to open, open

the window. CALLER: that?

Okay.

Now, are you sure about

Sure to open the window? CRO:

You know, I'm not there.

only go by what you're telling me. should open a window if —

I can

You only

if there's more smoke

outside than there is inside, if you open the window, it's going to bring all the smoke outside in.

If there's a fire going on anywhere and you

open the window, it's going to make the fire

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ignite more. CALLER:

I think I'm losing you.

Can

you hear me? CRO:

Yeah, I can hear you.

I can hear

you. OPERATOR: CALLER:

RO, I'm disconnecting; I have a bad connection.

okay? Can

you tell me anything about where the Fire Department is? CRO: have numerous — over.

I mean, are they — We are the Fire Department.

We

we have numerous people all

I mean, the Fire Department— CALLER: CRO:

(Inaudible.)

The Fire Department, EMS, is

crawling all over the place.

They're trying to

help everybody as much as they can. you hold on for a minute, sir?

Okay?

Can

I just want to

talk to the person in charge of the dispatchers. Hold on. CRO (to lieutenant):

Lieutenant,

lieutenant — CALLER (to second person):

CRO:

Heyi

Hello, are you still there, sir?

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EMS Tape 2 Hello? MALE SPEAKER: CRO:

I think we lost him.

You're the ATB?

MALE SPEAKER: through.

No, I just connected

I connected him through. CRO:

Who am I speaking to?

MALE SPEAKER: [phonetic].

I'm actually his boss.

I have his

cell phone number if you want it. CRO:

Okay.

Well, I can't make any

calls out from this line.

It's just — oh, God, I ' • Okay. I got the

this is really terrible. information.

I'm going to try to see what I can

do. MALE SPEAKER:

They're on the top floor

at Windows on the World, 120 people. CRO: him.

120?

He said 100.

the 106th floor.

Okay. Okay.

That's what I asked

He had 120 people on

Is that the -- is that One

World Trade? MALE SPEAKER: CRO:

Yes.

Is that the first building,

because I don't know -- I know there was a second hit.

Okay.

You know what, can you hold on so I

EMS Tape 2 can keep this line open with you?

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try to see if they're working on it; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Yep.

Hold on.

(Pause.) CRO: job in; okay?

Okay.

He told me I could put a

So I'm going to —

I'm just going

to dupe the job over to the dispatcher so they can get it; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

And we'll send somebody.

They're

crawling with all of us down there; okay? CALLER: CRO:

I know.

As long as we let them know and

that they wanted some instructions.

If they get

back in contact with you, just have them call back 911.

We'll try to see what we can do; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Will do.

Okay.

RECORDER:

Thank you. The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0915 hours, 58 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 0919 hours, 23 seconds, taken from position 13, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette

EMS Tape 2

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571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. CRO:

EMS 8709.

OPERATOR:

8709, I'm 1387.

I have a

location in Manhattan, caller on the line. CRO:

Hello, caller?

CALLER: speaking.

Yes.

This is CEA2 Longo

I'm at where the bomb is. CRO:

Okay.

You're at the World Trade

Center? CALLER:

Yes, ma'am.

I have two

females.

One has severe chest pains at Broome . '• ' and Broadway. CRO:

Hold on, hold on.

Two females.

How old? CALLER: CRO:

She's about in her thirties.

It's one or two?

CALLER:

They have one that has the

severe chest pains. CRO: wait.

• .

Okay.

So one —

one with —

One female with chest pains. CALLER:

Yes.

She's having a hard time

breathing too. CRO: female.

Okay. .And you have another

How old?

EMS Tape 2 CALLER: glass.

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Another female who was hit by

And her back hurts, and I don't know if

she has any injuries to her back.

And her knee

is all cut up, and she has injuries to her hands from the glass. CRO:

Okay.

CALLER:

What is your location?

I'm on Broadway and Broome,

right across the street from City Hall right in —

I am on —

right near the train station

down on the floor. CRO:

Okay, AC?

OPERATOR: CRO:

Did you route a job?

OPERATOR: CRO:

Yeah.

What did you send it as?

OPERATOR: CRO:

Yeah.

Chest pains.

No, the job, where the location

is. OPERATOR: CRO:

Broome Street and Broadway.

Broadway.

Did you send it?

Because I don't have the job. OPERATOR: CRO:

8709?

Yes.

OPERATOR:

Yeah, I routed it.

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

Oh, God.

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Hold on a second.

Hold

on a second. CRO (relaying):

Relay?

Did you get a

job for Broome Street, relay? CRO (to operator):

You know what, let

me just put it in manually, and then —

okay.

You said Broome? CALLER: CRO:

Broome Street.

CALLER: CRO:

Broome.

Broadway.

Okay.

Okay.

Broome Street and Broadway. different —

And what's t h e —

Broome Street, I'm looking at

they tell me the different ATOMs.

Oh, God. AC, what ATOM do you have?

Is that 001

D or something, because I'm getting — it's not West Broadway; right? OPERATOR:

No, again, just Broadway,

Broadway and Broome Street. CRO:

So I guess any of these ATOMs, 15

and D, 5 E and 5 F is all the same area or you don't — OPERATOR: CRO:

No, I'm not getting that.

What happens is when I put in

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just Broome Street and Broadway, it comes up with different ATOMs for the police sectors.

You just

sent me the job? OPERATOR:

Yes.

I've been, but it's —

you got it now? CRO: not —

Yeah.

Wait a minute.

it's not picking it up, though.

second.

I just lost it.

It's Hold on a

Oh, okay, I've got it.

Okay. CALLER: CRO:

Ma'am?

One second, ma'am.

We have

numerous EMS all over the location over there; okay?

So don't worry. CALLER:

What's DOI —

do I just make

them comfortable? CRO:

One second.

I'm going to give

you the information in one second. a minute here.

Just give me

It's not taking this.

Okay, one

minute. CALLER: CRO: the job.

Ma'am, is it possible to --

One second, one second.

I have

It's just that the computer is doing

all kinds of crazy things. things going on here.

We have so many crazy

EMS Tape 2

CALLER:

Okay.

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I have another woman.

I'm in a building -CALLER (to person at scene):

What's

the address here? CALLER:

253 Broadway.

ambulance here, too again. Okay.

I need an

Hold on.

Hold on.

Ma'am, I have another one that

just took nitroglycerin.

She can't breathe. She

can't —

It's a female, white

another female.

female, like in her forties.

She's having a hard

time, very hard time. CRO:

I ' •. Difficulty breathing; right?

CALLER: CRO:

Difficulty breathing.

CALLER: CRO:

She's still breathing.

Difficult.

And what location is this?

AC, you still online? OPERATOR: CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

What's your number again?

OPERATOR: CALLER: CRO: place.

Yes.

1387. 253 Broome, right (inaudible).

Okay.

It's also Manhattan, same

Broome, Broadway and Broome Street.

Same

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EMS Tape 2 one.

Okay.

Same one; right?

CALLER: same building.

Broadway and Broome, yeah,

It's right across the street.

This one needs it right away too. CRO:

Ma'am—

I'm listening.

CALLER: CRO:

—

do I lay her down or —

Okay, no, do not lay her down.

She's having chest pains? CALLER: CRO:

She took a nitroglycerin.

Okay.

Let her sit up.

Let her

s it up. CALLER (to second person):

Palpitation

medicine. CALLER (to person at scene): kind, ma'am? can't.

What kind?

What

She can't talk.

She

Should I look in her bag? CRO:

I can't hear you.

CALLER:

Should I look in her bag to

see what medicine? CRO:

She's on medication?

CALLER: CRO:

Yes, for her heart.

She's on nitro?

CALLER:

No, she's —

CALLER (to PT):

Ma'am, can you tell me

EMS Tape 2

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what medicine? CRO:

Miss, whatever medication it is

that she can't get to, try to do it for her. That's the only thing I can tell you to do from here. CALLER: CRO:

Okay..

Okay?

And everybody who's having

chest pains and difficulty breathing, tell them to sit up and lean forward.

Loosen anything

around their neck and around their chest area; okay?

Just try to keep them calm and monitor

their breathing until there's some help arriving. We have numerous —

we have numerous ambulances.

I don't even know if we can handle all of this. CALLER: CRO: can.

Okay, then.

Just try to do the best that you

If they have medication, let them take it. CALLER:

Okay.

Let me do it right now,

then. CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO: get it.

Hello?

Okay.

AC?

Yes.

The last job you gave, I didn't

Is it the same location? OPERATOR:

Yeah, it's all the same

EMS Tape 2

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locations. CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR:

Broadway and Brooms. Yeah.

They're all the same.

(Caller changes to male.) CALLER:

Hello?

OPERATOR:

Yes, sir.

MALE SPEAKER:

All right.

Hold on.

(Pause.) CALLER: CRO:

Hello, I'm here.

CALLER: CRO:

Hello?

The officer told you to wait?

Officer?

I don't know who —

CALLER:. It's not the officer?

Who is

this right here? CRO:

This is EMS, 911.

CALLER (to second person): EMS.

This is

She's got someone on the line; right? CALLER:

Okay.

All right.

Someone is

passing out here in the building. CRO:

We already know about that.

know everything that's going on.

We

We have

numerous ambulances going in that area; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

You know something, are you all

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EMS Tape 2 right? CALLER: CRO:

Well, yeah.

You're all right.

Do me a favor.

Do you see a lot of ambulances in the area? CALLER: CRO:

Yeah, there are.

Okay.

Tell somebody —

tell one

of the EMT people that she needs some oxygen, that she's having difficulty breathing, because what's going on is I'm sending the job over there but we have numerous ambulances in the area; okay?

Being that you can go get help for this

person, I'm going to ask you to do that; okay? But make sure the person is sitting up, leaning forward; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Thank you.

CALLER: CRO:

Okay. We'll be there.

All right.

Thank you.

CALLER:

Okay.

CRO:. Thank you, AC. OPERATOR:

Okay.

RECORDER:

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tape concludes at 0927 hours, 08 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at

EMS Tape 2

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0917 hours, 35 seconds, taken from position 14, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. CRO:

EMS, 8685.

OPERATOR:

8685, 1115, going to the

World Trade Center on 105th floor. Go ahead, ma'am — CALLER: CRO:

go ahead, sir?

Hello?

Yes.

CALLER:

We've got lots of people up

here on 105, the north side reception area. can't go down the stairs. everywhere.

We

There's smoke

We've got some heavyweight people.

CRO:

105th floor?

CALLER: CRO:

Tower Two, north side.

Tower Two?

Tower Two, north

side? CALLER: CRO:

Right.

No one can get out of the

building? CALLER:

We can't get out.

We can't

really -- we went down the staircase. Somebody said the stairwell was collapsed. the other —

We can't find

there's too much smoke.

We can't

EMS Tape 2

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even find the exits. CRO (to lieutenant): CALLER: CRO:

Lieutenant?

Hello?

Hold one second.

CALLER (to people at scene):

How many

people we got? CRO:

How many people?

SECOND PERSON (at scene):

We've got

about 60? CALLER: CRO:

60 people.

Oh, wow.

CRO (to lieutenant): lieutenant.

I ' Lieutenant,

60 people.

CALLER: there's smoke.

60, 70.

I can't see.

Lady,

We've got to get on the floor.

We can't breathe. CRO:

All right.

Try to stay calm; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Hold one second, sir.

I know .--

People want to break a window.

No, do not do that.

CALLER (to people at scene):

Don't

break a window. CRO:

No.

Everybody —

listen --

CALLER (to people at scene):

Don't

EMS Tape 2

40

break a window, they said. CRO:

Everybody -- listen to me.

Is

there any towels in the area? CALLER: CRO:

What?

Is there any towels in the area?

CALLER: CRO: towels.

Towels, towels?

Okay.

Listen.

Listen.

Yeah.

Everybody wet the

Lie on the floor.

Everybody

wet the towels; put it over your head.

Lie on

the floor; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Right.

You're going to have to do that.

Stay with me; okay?

Hold one second.

Hold one

second. CALLER (to people at scene):

Lay on

the floor, wet towels on your faces. CRO:

Oh, my God.

OPERATOR:

Okay, okay.

CALLER (to people at scene):

Lay on

the floor, wet towels on your faces. CALLER: CRO:

Hey, lady, we can't breathe.

Oh, my God.

You can't breathe at

all? CALLER:

We really can't breathe.

EMS Tape 2

CRO:

Okay.

41

Listen, when you —

listen, please do not break the window. break the window

—

CALLER: CRO:

When you

We didn't break it.

Don't break the window because

there's so much smoke outside.

If you break a

window, you guys won't be able to breathe; okay? Okay?

So if there are any other doorways that

you can open where you don't see the smoke. CALLER: here.

It's high. CRO:

Okay.

CALLER: CRO:

CRO:

This is the tower.

Okay.

CALLER:

down.

Lady, there's no windows up

Lady,

Okay.

Listen, calm yourself

We'll bring everybody outside; okay? CALLER: CRO:

out there.

(Inaudible.)

Listen.

We've got the firemen

Their outing the fire. CALLER:

Get them up here with some

air. CRO: there, sir.

We are.

We're trying to get up

Like you said, the stairs are

EMS Tape 2 collapsed; okay?

42

Everybody wet the towers and

lie on the floor; okay?

Put the wet towels over

your head and lie down; okay? to breathe.

I know it's hard

I know it is.

CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

CALLER:

CRO: I understand.

Are you taping this?

My phone number is

I understand, sir. There was two —

I understand.

okay, one second,

sir.

CRO (to operator): OPERATOR: CRO:

AC?

Uh-huh.

Did you route?

Did you route the

job? OPERATOR:

I've been routing it.

I've

been routing it. CRO:

Okay.

ANNOUNCEMENT (on PA in background) : We aware of it down here.

The condition seems to

have subsided. CALLER:

They say the situation

EMS Tape 2 subsided but not up here.

43

They are making an

announcement like everything's fine. CRO:

Okay, listen.

If you guys panic

—

CALLER: CRO:

How are you supposed to know?

Okay, listen, listen, listen to

me, listen to me; okay? to panic.

Just calm down^

Listen, don't —

try not

You can save your air supply by doing

that; okay? CALLER: CRO:

I'm trying.

All right.

Try not to panic.

I

understand what —

do you have a towel, sir? Did

you have a towel?

Did you have a towel?

CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

CALLER: CRO:

Yes. Calm yourself down.

It's not helping.

I know it's not.

I know it's

not.

OPERATOR:

They said the stairwell

collapsed and everything. CRO:

The stairwell collapsed.

CALLER:

I don't know about the other

side but, man, there's even more smoke coming in —

(inaudible).

EMS Tape 2 CRO: minute; okay?

Okay, okay.

Okay.

Give me a

Hold on one second, sir.

CALLER: CRO:

44

I don't have —

Don't hang up.

CALLER:

Don't hang up.

We don't have a minute to give

you a minute. CALLER (to people at scene):

I'm on

with EMS. CRO:

That's your phone number.

CALLER (to people at scene):

I'm on

the line. MALE SPEAKER (in background at scene): Tell them to CALLER: CRO:

I hope you here that.

Yeah, we did.

MALE SPEAKER (at scene):

CRO:

Hello?

CALLER: CRO:

Hello, sir?

Hello.

We have all that in our system.

Everybody is downstairs already.

It's just a

matter of getting up there and getting you out. CALLER: us.

The fire is right underneath

Where are you going?

45

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

The fire is underneath you?

CALLER:

Yeah.

I'm going to try — I'm

going to try another exit. CRO: Listen to me.

I've got to go.

Okay, listen.

Listen to me.

Listen, the fire —

if the fire is

underneath you, somebody needs to look and see if the fire is on to see if it's upstairs. CALLER:

We'll see if there's another

staircase. CRO:

Find another staircase and see if

you can make it upstairs. CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

Oh, God.

OPERATOR: CRO:

He hung up. All right.

104th floor.

Ain't this terrible?

OPERATOR:

Oh, my God.

Okay, I've got everything,

RO. CRO:

All right.

OPERATOR:

Thank you.

RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0922 hours, 28 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at

EMS Tape 2

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0942 hours, 58 seconds, taken from position 14, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September 11, 2001. CRO:

EMS 8685.

OPERATOR:

Okay, 8685.

This is 1082.

I have two occupants in building number two, World Trade Center, 1034. CRO:

In building number two?

OPERATOR:

Yeah.

CALLER: CRO:

Building two.

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

You're number is 86 what?

8685.

OPERATOR: CRO:

85.

Okay.

What's going on, sir? CALLER: CRO:

Caller is on the line.

At the World Trade Center. Hello?

Hello.

Yes.

CALLER:

We're in building two, 103rd

floor. CRO:

Okay.

CALLER: CRO: the fire?

Anybody near us?

I'm checking.

Is it —

Is that the water running?

is that

EMS Tape 2

CALLER:

I don't know.

I busted two

windows. CRO:

Did you open the two windows?

CALLER:

CRO:

We opened two windows.

Yes, there's smoke.

All right.

Listen, is there any towels in the area? CALLER: CRO:

Any who?

Towels, towels.

Is there any

towels there, sir? CALLER: CRO:

I don't know. I ' • Somebody try to —

' anything, your

jacket, wet them, soak them with water.

Anything

that you have handy, okay, soak them with water and lie on the floor.

Put towels over your head.

Lie on the floor; okay? CALLER: CRO:

How soon before help?

Okay.

We're outside.

You see

that we're outside; right? CALLER: CRO:

We're outside at your location.

CALLER: CRO:

What?

I'm in a room.

You're in a room by yourself?

CALLER:

No, with another guy.

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

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Did you try to go out the door to

see if you can get upstairs or downstairs to see if the fire's there? CALLER:

There's people all over the

stairways. CRO:

There's people all over the

stairway? CALLER: CRO:

Try to calm yourself down.

need something.

Get a jacket, anything.

CALLER: CRO:

You

I gotta go.

Lift up your shirt.

CALLER:

Okay?

I've got to try to find it.

I

feel real dizzy. CRO:

That's what I'm saying, get a

towel. CALLER: CRO:

Sir?

CALLER: CRO:

Sir?

Get a towel.

Wet it.

Okay.

Put it over your head.

CALLER: CRO:

I can't.

I'll try to call you back.

Okay.

Try to call me back.

CRO (to lieutenant): number again, lieutenant?

What's the job

The job number for the

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World Trade Center, I don't see it up here. What's the job number for the World Trade Center? The job for the World Trade Center. okay. right?

Still 727;

I guess I'm getting all of them today; Uh-oh. I hear the thing burning.

burning, fire.

I hear it

Yeah.

Hello?

Yes, sir?

Did you wet

something and put it over your head? CALLER:

I can't find anything.

(Inaudible.) CRO:

I. ' • Do you see any fire at this time?

CALLER: CRO:

(Inaudible.)

Huh?

CALLER: CRO: floor.

Sir?

(Inaudible.)

Okay, I want you to go on the

Kneel on the floor. CALLER: CRO:

I'm lying on. the floor.

On the floor.

with a cloth; okay?

Cover your head

You have to do that.

anybody else there? CALLER: CRO:

One other guy.

Okay.

CALLER:

Is he conscious?

What?

Is

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

Is he conscious?

CALLER: CRO:

I can't hear you.

Is he awake?

CALLER: CRO:

50

Yeah.

You guys need to get out of that

room because there's too much smoke and go in the hallway with the rest of the people. CALLER: CRO:

They're in the stairway.

That's where you need to be if

there's too much smoke in that area. CALLER: CRO:

Is there as much?

CALLER: CRO: yourself.

There's smoke in the stairway.

Yeah.

You don't need to be in there by

Get with people; okay?

Don't stay

isolated in one place; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

All right, then.

Go out there

with the rest of the people. CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

Make sure you take the towels and

wet the cloth; okay? CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

I'm going to —

Very important.

All right.

EMS Tape 2 CALLER: CRO:

(Inaudible.)

All right, then.

OPERATOR: CRO: the fire?

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That's it, RO.

All right.

Do you want to hear

Do you want to hear the fire? (Pause.) RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0948 hours, 30 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at 0858 hours, 22 seconds, taken from position 16, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. CRO:

8662.

OPERATOR: CRO:

86 —

62.

OPERATOR:

—

62. This is 1395.

Caller is on the line, and we're in the borough of Manhattan. CRO:

Hello, caller.

Is the person

breathing? CALLER:

No.

Well, the person jumped

from the World Trade Center from one of the windows outside the World Trade Center, the one that's on fire.

The body is now laying on the

EMS Tape 2

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platform — CRO: female?

Hold on one second.

A male or a

A male or a female? CALLER: CRO:

Male.

How old is he; do you know?

CALLER:

I have no idea.

I mean, I

only see him from the window. CRO:

He jumped out which window, which

floor; do you know? CALLER:

Probably at least the 75th or

80th floor. CRO: him now?

80th floor.

Which floor? CALLER:

I And where do you see

What floor is he now?

He is now laying on a platform

facing the north in the plaza of Five World Trade Center. CRO:

Platform of five?

CALLER: CRO:

World Trade.

I understand.

What floor is he

on the Five World Trade Center?

What floor is he

on?

CALLER: street.

He is actually above the

He is not on the street.

I would say he

is level with the platform at the entrance of the

EMS Tape 2

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World Trade Center, the Vista Hotel.

CRO:

He's on —

CALLER: CRO:

It's about three floors.

About three floors.

CALLER: CRO:

Thank you.

Okay.

Hold on one second.

Don't

hang up. CALLER: CRO:

Thank you.

About three floors up on —

CALLER:

The platform is on the corner

of Vesey and the West Side Highway. CRO:

Hold on.

CALLER:

On the corner —

Of Vesey Street and'West Side

Highway. CRO:

Vesey and West Side.

CALLER: OPERATOR: CRO:

Yes. I have this in already.

Oh, really?

OPERATOR:

There's a job number —

no — CRO:

No, there's another job for the

World Trade Center. OPERATOR: CRO:

I'll put it -The World Trade —

I'll put this in as a new job

EMS Tape 2

54

because this is a jumper down so — OPERATOR:

This is what I have, a

jumper. CRO:

Oh, yeah?

CRO (to caller):

He is alive or dead?

He looks dead? CALLER: CRO:

I'm sure he's dead.

Oh, okay.

CALLER:

But I just want to make sure

that somebody can find his body. CRO:

anyway.

Okay.

Hold on. You're not there I . You're just looking out the window. CALLER:

window.

Yeah, I'm looking out the

But I wanted to report it. CRO:

I understand.

OPERATOR: CRO:

RO number?

8662.

What is the jumper down

number, what do you have? OPERATOR:

It's not in.

Just one

moment. CRO: as —

Okay.

We're going to put it in

not One World Trade Center. CRO (to caller):

West Side Highway; right?

Put it —

It's on Vesey and

EMS Tape 2 CALLER: CRO: he's on?

55

Yes.

Okay.

Do you know which building

He's landed on five? CALLER: CRO:

Outside, yes, on the plaza.

He's landed on Five World Trade

Center on the third floor on the platform? CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

So I'm going to put it in as

five. CALLER:

Yes, that would be fine.

OPERATOR: CRO:

Did you get it?

Hold on.

World Trade Center. second.

No, not yet.

Let's see.

One —

Five hold on a

I think the computer is slow or

something. OPERATOR: CRO:

Okay.

I put the job in already.

CALLER: CRO:

I know.

Okay.

Did you have a phone number

you're calling from? CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

526-0365.

Is that a (212) number?

CALLER: OPERATOR:

Yes, it is. RO number?

EMS Tape 2 CRO:

Okay.

CALLER: CRO:

Okay?

Okay.

OPERATOR: CRO:

Bye-bye. Your number, RO?

8662 is my number.

CRO (to caller): up.

56

Yeah, you can hang

The ambulance will be there.

I've got it,

526-0365. CALLER: CRO:

That's correct.

Got it?

CALLER:

Okay?

OPERATOR: CALLER:

Yeah. Okay?

OPERATOR: CRO:

Okay, we've got it.

CALLER: CRO:

Yes, it's fine.

Thank you.

AC, are you going to route it?

OPERATOR: CRO:

I did.

Okay.

I routed it.

I'll get it later.

Thanks,-bye-bye. OPERATOR:

All right.

RECORDER:

The preceding portion of

tape concludes at 0902 hours, 32 seconds. The following portion of tape begins at

EMS Tape 2

57

0903 hours, 34 seconds, taken from position 16, dictaphone prolog originally recorded on cassette 571, DRM 4, deck 2, on September llth, 2001. CRO:

EMS 8662.

OPERATOR:

8662, 1908 in the borough of

Manhattan. CRO: breathing?

Hello, caller.

Hello? OPERATOR: CRO:

Is the person

Hello? He just put me on hold.

Oh, he put you on hold?

What did

he tell you? CALLER: CRO:

Is the person breathing?

CALLER: CRO:

Yes, she is.

How old is she?

CALLER: CRO:

A female.

Is she conscious?

CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

A male or female?

CALLER: CRO:

Hello?

She's in her mid twenties.

What happened to her?

happened? CALLER:' Huh? CRO:

What happened to her?

What

EMS Tape 2

CALLER:

58

She's having complications.

They're having bombing over there, an airplane at the World Trade or something. CRO:

Yeah, yeah.

Where is she?

Also

there? CALLER:

She's on the 25th floor.

She's in the building. CRO:

What floor is she on?

CALLER: CRO:

25th floor?

CALLER: CRO:

25.

Yeah, 25.

I And what is her problem?

CALLER: from the bombing.

She's having complications They're having a bombing or an

airplane hit the building, the World Trade, and she was over there. CRO:

What is her problem?

What is she

complaining of? CALLER:

She's having chest pains.

She

can't breathe. CRO: breathing.

Chest pain and difficulty

Do you know if she has heart problems

or asthma? CALLER:

I don't.

EMS Tape 2

CRO:

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Hold on one second.

Make sure

she's sitting in a comfortable position. keep her calm.

Are you next to her now?

CALLER: CRO:

Try to

Yes.

Try to keep her calm.

going to send the ambulance —

We are

the ambulances are

there already. CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

There's a lot of ambulances

there, but they have to get to her. CALLER: CRO:

Okay.

Okay?

ambulance up there. need to —

So I will send the So hold on one second. I

you give me more information on this.

The one world —

is this one?

CALLER: CRO:

It's not One World Trade Center?

CALLER: CRO:

No.

Okay.

CALLER: CRO:

This is 45 Broadway.

It's 45 Broadway?

Yes.

Hold on one second. There are a

lot of people there. CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

I know.

Let's see, it is.-- what

EMS Tape 2 is that, Broadway — CALLER:

60

is that near Exchange Place?

Yes, between Exchange and

Morris. CRO: (212) —

What's your phone number there? .

CALLER: CRO:

6427.

CALLER: CRO:

514-6427.

Oh, man.

Yeah, I know.

Okay, let's see.

You don't know her medical history? CALLER:

No, I don't. I

Can you hold on '

a second? CRO:

We'll send the ambulance.

Hello?

Hello? (Muzak playing.) CALLER: CRO:

Yes.

CALLER: CRO:

Hello?

Yeah.

We'll send the ambulance over to

45th Broadway, 25th floor. CALLER: CRO:

The ambulance will be there soon.

CALLER: CRO:

Yes, (inaudible) .

Thank you.

Bye-bye.