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Wednesday, September 19, 2001

For those of you who know New York, you wouldn’t recognize it

"The most terrifying part of the day was when I was hanging out in the triage center, doing my EMT thing, and suddenly heard, 'Go, go, go!' Turned to see people flooding off the wreckage of the Towers, into the building where I was. We all ran for the back of the building, but the door was blocked, so we jumped out the window. I didn't know why I was running, but I had no choiceŃa flood of people carries you as surely as water. Out the window, and running down the street, blocks and blocks, jumping the debris piles and running. Finally we slowed."

Godfuckingdamnit. A report from Ground Zero by an emergency medical technician.

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