| danny burstein 2005-08-11, 10:55 pm |
| Intimate look at FDNY's Sept. 11 response to be released Friday
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Assoc. Press Writer August 11, 2005, 8:17 PM EDT
NEW YORK - After years of legal battle, the Fire Department of New York is
releasing thousands of documents offering a detailed and intimate look at the
heroism and missteps behind its response to the Sept. 11 World Trade Center
attack.
The department plans to make public on Friday hours of radio transmissions and
hundreds of oral histories telling the story of firefighters' rush to the twin
towers on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, to help evacuate thousands of people
in what some have called the greatest rescue operation in U.S. history and
others have called a chaotic example of poor planning and miscommunication.
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