Emergency services - first of the WTC articles is out: NY Times (fwd)

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first of the WTC articles is out: NY Times (fwd)

danny burstein

2005-08-13, 8:55 am

Almost entirely focused on the EMS contingent

"August 13, 2005 Vast Archive Yields New View of 9/11 By JIM DWYER

" This article was reported by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn and Ian Urbina and
written by Mr. Dwyer.

" Faced with a court order and unyielding demands from the families of
victims, the city of New York yesterday opened part of its archive of
records from Sept. 11, releasing a digital avalanche of oral histories,
dispatchers' tapes and phone logs so vast that they took up 23 compact
discs.

" For the first time, about 200 accounts of emergency medical technicians,
paramedics and their supervisors were made public, revealing new
dimensions of a day and an emergency response that had already seemed
familiar.

" In details large and small, the accounts of the medical personnel -
uniformed workers who were often overlooked in many of the day's
chronicles, but were as vital to the response and rescue efforts as any
others - provide vivid and alarming recollections.........

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/n.../13records.html

Earle Horton

2005-08-13, 11:54 am

Good stuff. Thanks for posting the link. In case people are missing the
obvious, these are the same problems you are likely to encounter in your
local EMS system, unless you have training sessions every day and everybody
passed leadership courses with an "A".

Earle

"danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote in message
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> Almost entirely focused on the EMS contingent
>
> "August 13, 2005 Vast Archive Yields New View of 9/11 By JIM DWYER
>
> " This article was reported by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn and Ian Urbina and
> written by Mr. Dwyer.
>
> " Faced with a court order and unyielding demands from the families of
> victims, the city of New York yesterday opened part of its archive of
> records from Sept. 11, releasing a digital avalanche of oral histories,
> dispatchers' tapes and phone logs so vast that they took up 23 compact
> discs.
>
> " For the first time, about 200 accounts of emergency medical technicians,
> paramedics and their supervisors were made public, revealing new
> dimensions of a day and an emergency response that had already seemed
> familiar.
>
> " In details large and small, the accounts of the medical personnel -
> uniformed workers who were often overlooked in many of the day's
> chronicles, but were as vital to the response and rescue efforts as any
> others - provide vivid and alarming recollections.........
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/n.../13records.html