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The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattans Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue efforts. In the weeks that followed, Smith was present on the front lines, attending to the wounded, sifting through the wreckage, and mourning with New Yorks devastated fire and police departments.
This is Smiths vivid account of the rescue efforts by the fire and police departments and emergency medical teams as they rushed to face a disaster that would claim thousands of lives. Smith takes readers inside the minds and lives of the rescuers at Ground Zero as he shares stories about these heroic individuals and the effect their loss had on their families and their companies. It is, says Smith, the real and living history of the worst day in America since Pearl Harbor. Written...
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The author has assigned a significant percentage of his royalty from this book to the Foundation for American Firefighters, a 501(c) 3 charity registered in New York State, which conveys contributions to the New York Police & Fire Widows & Childrens Benefit Fund; the John Redmond Fund of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFL); the Health and Safety Fund of the International Association of Fire Chiefs; and the Congressional Fire Services Institute, an adjunct of the Fire Service Caucus of the United States Congress.
V I K I N G
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
First published in 2002 by Viking Penguin,
a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.
First published Electronic edition in 2003
Copyright Dennis Smith, 2002
All rights reserved
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from The Cure at Troy:
A Version of Sophocles Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney. Copyright 1990 by Seamus Heaney.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. and Faber and Faber Ltd.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-1315-5
Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be
reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any
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Making or distributing electronic copies of this book constitutes copyright infringement
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also by Dennis Smith
NONFICTION
Report from Engine Co. 82
Firehouse
Dennis Smiths History of Firefighting in America
The Aran IslandsA Personal Journey
The Fire Safety Book
Firefighters: Their Lives in Their Own Words
A Song for Mary
FICTION
The Final Fire
Glitter & Ash
Steely Blue
FOR CHILDREN
The Little Engine That Saved the City
Souls Who Went in to Help Others Get Out
New York City Fire Department
Joseph Agnello
Brian Ahearn
Eric Allen
Richard Allen
James Amato
Calixto Anaya, Jr.
Joseph Angelini
Joseph Angelini, Jr.
Faustino Apostol, Jr.
David Arce
Louis Arena
Carl Asaro
Gregg Atlas
Gerald Atwood
Gerald Baptiste
Gerard Barbara
Matthew Barnes
Arthur Barry
Steven Bates
Carl Bedigian
Stephen Belson
John Bergin
Paul Beyer
Peter Bielfeld
Brian Bilcher
Carl Bini
Christopher Blackwell
Michael Bocchino
Frank Bonomo
Gary Box
Michael Boyle
Kevin Bracken
Michael Brennan
Peter Brennan
Daniel Brethel
Patrick Brown
Andrew Brunn
Vincent Brunton
Ronald Bucca
Greg Buck
William Burke, Jr.
Donald Burns
John Burnside
Thomas Butler
Patrick Byrne
George Cain
Salvatore Calabro
Frank Callahan
Michael Cammarata
Brian Cannizzaro
Dennis Carey
Michael Carlo
Michael Carroll
Peter Carroll
Thomas Casoria
Michael Cawley
Vernon Cherry
Nicholas Chiofalo
John Chipura
Michael Clarke
Steven Coakley
Tarel Coleman
John Collins
Robert Cordice
Ruben Correa
James Coyle
Robert Crawford
John Crisci
Dennis Cross
Thomas Cullen III
Robert Curatolo
Edward DAtri
Michael Dauria
Scott Davidson
Edward Day
Thomas DeAngelis
Manuel Delvalle
Martin Demeo
David DeRubbio
Andrew Desperito
Dennis Devlin
Gerard Dewan
George DiPasquale
Kevin Donnelly
Kevin Dowdell
Raymond Downey
Gerard Duffy
Martin Egan, Jr.
Michael Elferis
Francis Esposito
Michael Esposito
Robert Evans
John Fanning
Thomas Farino
Terrence Farrell
Joseph Farrelly
William Feehan
Lee Fehling
Alan Feinberg
Michael Fiore
John Fischer
Andre Fletcher
John Florio
Michael Fodor
Thomas Foley
David Fontana
Robert Foti
Andrew Fredericks
Peter Freund
Thomas Gambino, Jr.
Peter J. Ganci, Jr.
Charles Garbarini
Thomas Gardner
Matthew Garvey
Bruce Gary
Gary Geidel
Edward Geraghty
Dennis Germain
Vincent Giammona
James Giberson
Ronnie Gies
Paul Gill
John Ginley
Jeffrey Giordano
John Giordano
Keith Glasco
James Gray
Joseph Grzelak
Jose Guadalupe
Geoffrey Guja
Joseph Gullickson
David Halderman
Vincent Halloran
Robert Hamilton
Sean Hanley
Thomas Hannafin
Dana Hannon
Daniel Harlin
Harvey Harrell
Stephen Harrell
Timothy Haskell
Thomas Haskell, Jr.
Terence Hatton
Michael Haub
Michael Healey
John Hefferman
Ronnie Henderson
Joseph Henry
William Henry
Thomas Hetzel
Brian Hickey
Timothy Higgins
Jonathan Hohmann
Thomas Holohan
Joseph Hunter
Walter Hynes
Jonathan Ielpi
Frederick Ill, Jr.
William Johnston
Andrew Jordan
Karl Joseph
Anthony Jovic
Angel Juarbe, Jr.
Father Mychal Judge
Vincent Kane
Charles Kasper
Paul Keating
Richard Kelly, Jr.
Thomas R. Kelly
Thomas W. Kelly
Thomas Kennedy
Ronald Kerwin
Michael Kiefer
Robert King, Jr.
Scott Kopytko
William Krukowski
Kenneth Kumpel
Thomas Kuveikis
David LaForge
William Lake
Robert Lane
Peter Langone
Scott Larsen
Joseph Leavey
Neil Leavy
Daniel Libretti
Carlos Lillo
Robert Linnane
Michael Lynch, (L.4)
Michael Lynch, (E.40)
Michael Lyons
Patrick Lyons
Brian McAleese
John McAvoy
Thomas McCann
William McGinn
William McGovern
Dennis McHugh
Robert McMahon
Robert McPadden
Terence McShane
Timothy McSweeney
Martin Mc Williams
Joseph Maffeo
William Mahoney
Joseph Maloney
Joseph Marchbanks, Jr.
Charles Margiotta
Kenneth Marino
John Marshall
Peter Martin
Paul Martini
Joseph Mascali
Keithroy Maynard
Raymond Meisenheimer
Charles Mendez
Steve Mercado
Douglas Miller
Henry Miller, Jr.
Robert Minara
Thomas Mingione
Paul Mitchell
Louis Modafferi
Dennis Mojica
Manuel Mojica
Carl Molinaro
Michael Montesi
Thomas Moody
John Moran
Vincent Morello
Christopher Mozzillo
Richard Muldowney, Jr.
Michael Mullan
Dennis Mulligan
Raymond Murphy
Robert Nagel
John Napolitano
Peter Nelson
Gerard Nevins
Denis OBerg
Daniel OCallaghan
Douglas Oelschlager
Joseph Ogren
Thomas OHagan
Samuel Oitice
Patrick OKeefe
William OKeefe
Eric Olsen
Jeffery Olsen
Steven Olson
Kevin ORourke
Michael Otten
Jeffrey Palazzo
Orio Palmer
Frank Palombo
Paul Pansini
John Paolillo
James Pappageorge
Robert Parro
Durrell Pearsall
Glenn Perry
Philip Petti
Kevin Pfeifer
Kenneth Phelan
Christopher Pickford
Shawn Powell
Vincent Princiotta
Kevin Prior
Richard Prunty
Lincoln Quappe
Michael Quilty
Ricardo Quinn
Leonard Ragaglia
Michael Ragusa
Edward Rall
Adam Rand
Donald Regan
Robert Regan
Christian Regenhard
Kevin Reilly
Vernon Richard
James Riches
Joseph Rivelli, Jr.
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