I sent this to the list earlier today. One person responded to it, but I
never received the message myself, so just wondering if you all received it.
It has been a hell of a day for New York and DC...for America.
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> From: Lynne d Johnson <ldj00@earthlink.net>
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:01:17 -0400
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>> New York City Shuts Down
>>
>> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>>
>>
>>
>> NEW YORK -- Terrorist attacks at the peak of rush hour paralyzed
>> Manhattan, shutting down subway lines, crippling cellular phone
>> service, and forcing evacuations from Wall Street to the United
>> Nations.
>>
>> The mayor closed lower Manhattan to make way for emergency
>> vehicles. Thousands of people left by walking across the Brooklyn
>> Bridge.
>>
>> The election was called off. The airports were closed. Trading on
>> Wall Street was suspended. The United Nations building was
>> evacuated. Offices throughout Manhattan closed. Children were kept
>> in their schools because their parents could not get to them.
>>
>> Victims from the attack on the World Trade Center -- many suffering
>> from extensive burns -- began arriving at hospitals in New York
>> City about an hour after the two planes slammed into the twin
>> towers, witnesses said Tuesday.
>>
>> "Hundreds of people are burned from head to toe," said Dr. Steven
>> Stern at St. Vincent's Hospital in the Greenwich Village
>> neighborhood of lower Manhattan.
>>
>> About 50 or 60 doctors and nurses were standing in scrubs and
>> uniforms waiting for the next wave of ambulances to come in. The
>> first wave arrived around 10 a.m. EDT, doctors said.
>>
>> The entire entrance to the emergency room was lined with stretchers
>> covered with white sheets.
>>
>> Doctors said the victims mostly had burns.
>>
>> "So far we've received
>> a few patients, mostly second-degree burns," Dr. Gary Fishman at
>> St. Vincents said. "We are expecting the brunt of the people to
>> arrive soon."
>>
>> Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told New Yorkers to remain in their homes or
>> businesses, unless they are located south of Canal Street. People
>> in the downtown area are advised to head north and clear out the
>> streets.
>>
>> "Remain calm and try to assist in the rescue effort and pray,"
>> Giuliani said. "The main thing is having these streets open so we
>> can move people out of there."
>>
>> Most of the early patients were being sent to New York University's
>> Downtown Hospital and to St. Vincent's.
>>
>> At about 8:45 a.m. EDT, a plane struck one the north tower of the
>> landmark complex in lower Manhattan, and the building was soon
>> engulfed in flames. Moments later a second plane struck the south
>> tower.
>>
>> Both towers of the complex collapsed, the first falling about 75
>> minutes later and the second crashing half an hour after that. The
>> entire south end of Manhattan was engulfed in smoke and airborne
>> debris.
>>
>> "The whole of lower Manhattan is coated in half an inch of dust,"
>> Reuters reporter Daniel Sternoff said.
>>
>> People were fleeing the area in a panic.
>>
>> At St. Vincents, hospital
>> staff appealed for blood donors in the street, Reuters reporter Ian
>> Driscoll said. The line to give blood was over 100 people long.
>>
>> "We expect smoke inhalation, trauma, and burns," Dr. Bernd Reisbeck
>> said. "I expect we will be working non-stop for at least the next
>> 24 hours."
>>
>> At every pay phone, people were lined up a dozen deep to call loved
>> ones, but many ended up hanging up in frustration at the profusion
>> of busy signals. At one pay phone in Greenwich Village, a woman was
>> sobbing into the phone, saying she didn't know whether a loved one
>> was OK.
>>
>> Cell phone service throughout Manhattan was interrupted. Regular
>> phone service was congested, forcing many callers to dial
>> repeatedly to get through. AT&T shut down its entire phone and
>> communications system in Manhattan, according to a spokesman, who
>> declined to give his name.
>>
>> Bridges and tunnels leading also were closed, a Port Authority
>> spokeswoman said, leaving hundreds of trucks and cars stuck as they
>> tried to enter the city.
>>
>> All subway lines stopped running, said Bob Slovak, spokesman for
>> NYC Transit.
>>
>> Rockefeller Center, the complex of offices and shops that is a
>> favorite tourist destination in the heart of the city, was among
>> the buildings where property managers urged tenants to go home.
>>
>>
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