The Lives They Saved: The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners, and the Incredible Boatlift That Evacuated Nearly 300,000 People on 9/11
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The Lives They Saved: The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners, and the Incredible Boatlift That Evacuated Nearly 300,000 People on 9/11
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781493073009 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 08/06/2023 |
| Pages: | 278 |
| Sales rank: | 362,060 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Chapter 1 September 12, 2001 1
The Day After
Chapter 2 September 10, 2001 2
The Night Before
Chapter 3 "There should be a law against working on such a beautiful day." 4
7:45 a.m.
Chapter 4 "Lower Manhattan is really MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) City." 12
8:30 a.m.
Chapter 5 "We had a view of the World Trade Center." 18
8:45 a.m.
Chapter 6 "Eric, look at that! Look how low that plane is." 21
8:46 a.m.
Chapter 7 "We noticed smoke coming off the first building." 27
8:47 a.m.
Chapter 8 "We are gearing up, psychologically, for a major MCI." 32
8:49 a.m.
Chapter 9 "I wanted to surround the lower tip of Manhattan, and the Battery Park area, with fireboats." 35
8:54 a.m.
Chapter 10 "There were people running everywhere." 40
8:55 a.m.
Chapter 11 "There were bodies strewn all over West Side Highway …" 44
8:59 a.m.
Chapter 12 "I knew right away we couldn't put the fire out." 47
9:00 a.m.
Chapter 13 "With the second plane in, I knew this was no accident." 53
9:02 a.m.
Chapter 14 "People were streaming out toward the ferry." 58
9:04 a.m.
Chapter 15 "You have to evacuate the injured …" 65
9:07 a.m.
Chapter 16 "Thousands of people were running toward the water." 69
9:09 a.m.
Chapter 17 "Improvise." 72
9.12 a.m.
Chapter 18 "That shuts down New York Harbor." 76
9:15 a.m.
Chapter 19 "It just looked like too much, high-rise towers, free burning like that." 80
9:19 a.m.
Chapter 20 "The tower might come down in the harbor" 83
9:21 a.m.
Chapter 21 "That's your evacuation plan-everybody goes south." 86
9:41 a.m.
Chapter 22 "All of a sudden, you hear boom, boom, boom." 91
10:00 a.m.
Chapter 23 "It looked exactly like an avalanche coming down the street." 98
10:02 a.m.
Chapter 24 "People kept coming down to the seawall just looking to get away." 102
10:12 a.m.
Chapter 25 "We had steel beams all around us." 107
10:22 a.m.
Chapter 26 "The group started jumping over the wall into the boat." 110
10:24 a.m.
Chapter 27 "[It was] a lot of chaos, a lot of people running around, a lot of screaming, a lot of people asking for help." 113
10:26 a.m.
Chapter 28 "The building was a quarter-mile high, and we were way too close." 117
10:28 a.m.
Chapter 29 "They give us water and comfort." 128
10:35 a.m.
Chapter 30 "The only way out [for the injured] was by boat." 130
10:41 a.m.
Chapter 31 "We started putting the women and children on boats to get them over to New Jersey." 133
11:00 a.m.
Chapter 32 "There are twenty-seven to thirty tugboats sitting there." 137
11:05 a.m.
Chapter 33 "Get the hell out of the city." 142
11:10 a.m.
Chapter 34 "Just like the Titanic." 146
11:15 a.m.
Chapter 35 "We have no communications with the outside world." 153
11:25 a.m.
Chapter 36 "We had to get back in the game." 158
11:30 a.m.
Chapter 37 "Everybody seemed to be migrating down toward the water zone." 165
11:50 a.m.
Chapter 38 "Every vessel in the harbor was moving." 170
11:59 a.m.
Chapter 39 "We know evil." 178
12:00 p.m.
Chapter 40 "I felt like I was on a landing craft going into the beach at Normandy." 183
12:05 p.m.
Chapter 41 "No one was talking." 187
Afternoon
Chapter 42 "By 12:30 p.m., we had established a water supply." 193
Afternoon
Chapter 43 The Last Ship 196
Night
Epilogue: A Peanut Butter Sandwich 200
The Numbers 204
Notes 207
Index 233
About the Author 249