My Brothers and Sisters/Survivor Info
magpie1112 at yahoo.com
magpie1112 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 13 19:26:42 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 26072
Oh Michelle - my heart (and prayers) go out to emergency personnel
doing their best in these horrible circumstances. Just in case, here
is a site that has survivor information:
http://wtc.ny.com/
Sorry if it's been posted before - I just want to make sure it gets
out to people who may need it.
- Denise
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "M. Barnett" <fyregirl at c...> wrote:
> Yesterday in NYC I lost possibly hundreds of Brothers and Sisters.
> My Brothers and SIsters went rushing in to help the injured and
> rescue the trapped and recover the bodies when the first plane
hit.
> Then the second plane hit. They had no warning, just like the
> civilians that died. Before the debris stopped falling, they were
> back in the first building and already into the second building to
do
> their jobs.
>
> In the Fire Service we have 3 main objectives on the scene of any
> call.
>
> #1 ... Life Safety.
> #2 ... Incident Stabilization.
> #3 ... Property conservation.
>
> I think they knew there wasn't much they could do to save the top
end
> of the buildings, but they sure as hell weren't giving up trying to
> find those trapped above the crash site. They knew, as I did
> watching it on TV, that the buildings were going to collapse. Yet
> they stayed. They stayed and helped so many people. And now, so
> many of them are dead.
>
> The Fire Service has lost many of its Brothers and Sisters
yesterday,
> and even into today. I know you are all praying (I use that term
> loosely, as that's not what we all do) for the victims, their
> families and our country, but please, add a special bit about all
the
> Firefighters, EMS workers, and Police Officers that lost their
> lives ... so that others may live.
>
> Michelle Barnett, Firefighter...
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