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Thank you, I was just doing my job though. A job that I love.

He didn't have a reaction. When he was responding he got stuck in the brooklyn battery tunnel and had to walk the entire thing with all the gear. When he got to end the second tower had fallen and it looked like a movie with people running and screaming and dust and debris flying everywhere.

The only people we listened to were our chiefs when searching, we didn't really pay attention to anyone else or other organisations

I don't have any regrets, a lot of companies disregarded the dispatcher and went to the sight immediately and a lot of those companies lost men. I did what i was told, against the wishes of my men, but I didn't get anyone killed

The worst thing was when we dug a civilian out we had to cut him in half to get the torso out and the skull was crushed from ear to ear. Couldnt even tell if it was male or female

Respect changed immediately he couldn't buy a meal or beer, people would give them kisses and things like that.

Big time. I was tired and just wanted to get home. I remember driving home and seeing all the banners thanking us. When I got home, my wife asked what i wanted to do, I wanted to go the movies, we saw Rat Race and i fell asleep because i was so exhausted. I just tried to get everything to return to normalcy.

Yes, he was a pretty stereotypical fireman, Irishman with a mustache

Once we got out of the tunnel all the chaos just got to me, I kept saying that this isn't real, it can't be real. I kept thinking this can't happen, not in Manhattan, somewhere else but not here. After that initial shock, I snapped back into it and I didn't have to tell my guys anything, they knew exactly what to do. We just stayed together and tried to rescue survivors, help injured. When we got to a crushed fire truck, there was a firemen that was under the truck dead and we stayed there over an hour trying to get his body out.