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9/11: Evacuating Ground Zero

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Firefighting at Ground Zero

i think it would be important and really useful for us to hear how the event transpired in the days and weeks that followed nine 11, because i know that you were part of the fire fighting effort from september twelfth on the fire boat. So firebo john j harvey, was basically called back into service. Initially the crew was evacuating passengers, just participating in the boat lift. And then what happened was, when the towers came down, the water mains were broken and the hydrants were obscured. There was literally no fire fighting water available at the trade center sight for days following the collapse. It felt a, i felt dwarfed by everything that was going on

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