Manhattan Medics: The Gripping Story of the Men and Women of Emergency Medical Services Who Make the Streets of the City Their Career

by Francis J. Rella, NREMT-P

Overview

This firsthand account of September 11, written by a paramedic on the scene, chronicles the days before and after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Frank Rella describes the paramedic crew stationed at St. Vincent's Hospital in lower Manhattan, the eerie foreshadowing of the coming disaster, and his encounter with a Middle Eastern man who offered a tarot card reading. Rella details how he and his partner arrived at Ground Zero just as the second tower collapsed and rescued a firefighter who was having a heart attack. The vivid descriptions of turf battles between paramedics and fire department personnel at Ground Zero and elsewhere will arouse controversy and interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871272607
Publisher:	Elysian Editions
Publication date:	09/01/2003
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Francis Rella was a medic at St. Vincent's Hospital in 2001 and acted as a 9/11 first responder. He is now a lieutenant in the USAF and serves in Iraq on a medical evacuation team.

Editorial Reviews

It's a pedal-to-the-metal, lights-and-siren ride through the streets of Lower Manhattan, as vivid as a heart attack.” —Ellis Henican, columnist, New York Newsday

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