Glad to hear your loved ones are OK, Mark. It sounds like the school
you're describing is P.S. 234 on Greenwich Street right by Chambers --
I used to live kinda kiddy-corner from that school, but had to move
out when my land lord decided to sell the apartment. Now I'm almost
relieved that happened. I can't beleive this. I can only hope that
people I've worked with downtown and former neighbors are OK. I
heard that major debris was strewn at least a few blocks north of
that intersection.
I'm in a sublet right now up in the low 20s on the West side. Down
by Chelsea piers there used to be a view of WTC, so this morning I
had walked down to take a look from a distance. Not long after I
started to walk I heard news come over the portable radio I had that
the South tower had fallen (which was REALLY hard to believe!). When
I got down there I could see the remaining (north) tower with lots of
visible flames and what seemed to be a large hole where the plane had
hit. Probably 15 or 20 minutes after I got down there, that tower
collapsed upon itself. All I could do was stand there with my mouth
open, shaking my head in disbelief... Such large scale destruction
right in front of you is enough to shake anyone up.
On my way down there, & as I stood watching, emergency vehicles were
flying downtown to assist, including a pick-up truck piled full of
FDNY fire fighters who had probably been off duty when the incident
happened. One of the main things I was horrified by was that, in
addition to the innocent people who live near there & work in offices
down there (who hopefully evacuated before the collapses), SO MANY
emregency workers HAD to have been REALLY close when either of those
tremendously tall buildings came crashing down. I heard within the
last hour or two that the fire dept expects that they've lost whole
companies and that there may be as many 200 fire fighters lost (there
were also many EMTs & cops lost)! THIS SUCKS!!!
In addition to all of the regular/innocent folks (including people
from Mark's sister's company) DEFINITELY include all the civil
servants who've laid down their lives in the line of duty in your
prayers.
Bill Lewis -- broke but safe in NY -- at this point being broke is a
petty/trivial problem compared to what went down today!
--- In DSN_klr650@y..., Mark Tullis wrote:
>
> This awful tragedy as certainly hit close to home.
>
> Just got word that my 9 year old son is okay. He attends
elementary school five blocks north of the north tower of the WTC.
Fortunately his mother was still at the school when the first plane
struck, around 8:45am--about the same time school started. They
managed to evacuate to a safe place before the buildings collapsed
and covered the area in dust and debris. I still have not been able
to contact them via phone, as all of the lines are either down or
overwhelmed by all the traffic. But I have heard that they are okay
from a friend at NYU who has a non-dail up email connection. I am
trying every way to contact them, but am very grateful that they are
okay.
>
> My neighborhood is in mourning. A neighbor who lives across the
street has a mother and aunt who were passengers in one of the
hijacked flights from Boston that hit the WTC. They had just dropped
off their twins, two Boston University-bound 18 year-olds, and were
on their way back to LA... We are all stunned at this dreadful news.
>
> My sister who works at Fidelity Investments in Salt Lake said that
people in their NY office (located in one of the lower floors of the
WTC) called Salt Lake within five minutes after the first attack.
They were told by their superiors not to panic and definitely not to
leave the building (which is unbelievable considering the 93 WTO
bombing). Many disregarded the 'play it cool' warning and fled the
building just minutes before it collapsed. There is still confusion
about whether any, or how many, of the Fidelity employees stayed in
the building.
>
> As this terrible story unfolds I am shocked and appalled at the
magnitude and implications of this terrorist attack on the US.
>
> Mark Tullis
>
>
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:41:53 -0400
> From: Devon Jarvis
> Subject: Re: Report from DC, NYC
>
> I was walking in Brooklyn to the 2 train, heading to work when we
saw
> the
> smoke from one of the towers. I went inside a shop for my coffee,
and
> heard
> everybody watching outside screaming. This was when the second
plane
> hit.
>
> My wife and I went home, and I was watching the fire on TV when one
> tower
> collapsed. Then the other.
>
> We were turned away at the hospital, there's a three-hour wait to
> donate
> blood. People are just standing on the street crying. It still
doesn't
> seem real.
>
> Devon
> Brooklyn, NY
>
>
>
>
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--- In DSN_klr650@y..., Mark Tullis wrote:
>
> This awful tragedy as certainly hit close to home.
>
> Just got word that my 9 year old son is okay. He attends
elementary school five blocks north of the north tower of the WTC.
Fortunately his mother was still at the school when the first plane
struck, around 8:45am--about the same time school started. They
managed to evacuate to a safe place before the buildings collapsed
and covered the area in dust and debris. I still have not been able
to contact them via phone, as all of the lines are either down or
overwhelmed by all the traffic. But I have heard that they are okay
from a friend at NYU who has a non-dail up email connection. I am
trying every way to contact them, but am very grateful that they are
okay.
>
> My neighborhood is in mourning. A neighbor who lives across the
street has a mother and aunt who were passengers in one of the
hijacked flights from Boston that hit the WTC. They had just dropped
off their twins, two Boston University-bound 18 year-olds, and were
on their way back to LA... We are all stunned at this dreadful news.
>
> My sister who works at Fidelity Investments in Salt Lake said that
people in their NY office (located in one of the lower floors of the
WTC) called Salt Lake within five minutes after the first attack.
They were told by their superiors not to panic and definitely not to
leave the building (which is unbelievable considering the 93 WTO
bombing). Many disregarded the 'play it cool' warning and fled the
building just minutes before it collapsed. There is still confusion
about whether any, or how many, of the Fidelity employees stayed in
the building.
>
> As this terrible story unfolds I am shocked and appalled at the
magnitude and implications of this terrorist attack on the US.
>
> Mark Tullis
>
>
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:41:53 -0400
> From: Devon Jarvis
> Subject: Re: Report from DC, NYC
>
> I was walking in Brooklyn to the 2 train, heading to work when we
saw
> the
> smoke from one of the towers. I went inside a shop for my coffee,
and
> heard
> everybody watching outside screaming. This was when the second
plane
> hit.
>
> My wife and I went home, and I was watching the fire on TV when one
> tower
> collapsed. Then the other.
>
> We were turned away at the hospital, there's a three-hour wait to
> donate
> blood. People are just standing on the street crying. It still
doesn't
> seem real.
>
> Devon
> Brooklyn, NY
>
>
>
>
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