Firehouse Magazine Reports---Firefighter Mike Fenick

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From the August 2002 Firehouse Magazine

Firefighter Mike Fenick Ladder 48 - 15 years

Firehouse: I think somebody said that there were 14 teams of six guys each. Is that what they had?
Fenick: Yes.

Firehouse: Was that each tour?
Fenick: Each tour.

Firehouse: You worked with different guys from all over the city?
Fenick: Yeah, there were Bronx guys, Brooklyn guys, Harlem guys.

Firehouse: Did you work with the same guys every night?
Fenick: We worked with our same team every night.

Firehouse: What would your basic day consist of?
Fenick: You would get either the transfer station where the excavator would shake out debris in front of you and then you would go through it with the rake.

Firehouse: In the pit?
Fenick: They had one up high in front of 10 and 10 and they also had two or three of those down in the pit.

Firehouse: They told you what to look for and that if you found anything, you were supposed to stop?
Fenick: Yes, any kind of clothing, body parts, of course, and it’s common sense, purses and anything that could be related to a human being.

Firehouse: So what were the kind of things that you’d see when you were there, let’s say down at one of the transfer points?
Fenick: At the transfer stations, not much. Bags, handbags, really not like a woman’s handbag. Attache cases. Small bones. Sport bags, some clothing, some shoes and sneakers.

Firehouse: Did you find any fire tools?
Fenick: No fire tools. A couple of radios we found smashed up.

Firehouse: Could you tell where they were from?
Fenick: Not the ones that we found, no.

Firehouse: Did you find anything that was recognizable besides rebar or steel?
Fenick: As far as debris, recognizable debris? You mean structural type?

Firehouse: Anything, like a desk or a computer or a chair?
Fenick: Most of it was pretty crushed. You would find a lot of books. One area was filled with books. It must have been in the library. You could tell some chairs.

Firehouse: Could you smell when you found a body?
Fenick: Usually you could smell it. You would also get a lot of smells and there would be nothing around. If you got by a body, you were going to smell it first.

Firehouse: Was it difficult to take a body out of the debris? Did you use other tools besides a rake?
Fenick: Rakes and rebar cutters. It could be difficult. Some of them took quite a while. We had a sifter. They were pouring buckets of dirt into that sifter, sifting it out, finding a lot of bone fragments in there. I did some torch work. That’s about it as far as tools.

Firehouse: Did you ever have to go over to the SOC truck? They had the SOC truck over there with extra tools and supplies.
Fenick: No, they had a tool shack at 10 and 10 and you would just say send me this or that and the guy would come zipping down.

Firehouse: What would you ask for?
Fenick: Basically, rebar cutters or that’s where they would bring the body bags from, buckets, the sifter.

Firehouse: When you did find a firefighter, was the company called after the extrication was completed, if you knew where he was from? For most of the remains, did you know where they were from?
Fenick: Somebody said there was like 80 in March. I don’t know if that’s true or not, 80 bodies they found. I would say close to it. I thought it was more like 50 firemen. Well, it could have been other people, too. There were civilians.

Firehouse: Out of the 50, many of them could not be identified?
Fenick: Some of them they couldn’t identify.

Firehouse: So now would you put them in the body bag in the Stokes and then carry them up or would somebody else carry them up?
Fenick: That depends. If you were right there when it was going into the bag, you helped put it in the bag.

Firehouse: They called them down there if they weren’t there?
Fenick: Yes.

Firehouse: If the guys happened to be there, they took them out or they’d wait for the company to come?
Fenick: If they were local companies, they came. You know 4 Truck came down.

Firehouse: Let’s say they couldn’t identify a guy, whoever was there walked him all the way up and everybody else got in the line?
Fenick: Right.

Firehouse: So if you were sifting, they just stopped?
Fenick: Time out, shut down all the machines. Everything shut down. Get the M.E. (medical examiner) down there, the chaplain down there.

The chaplain would say a prayer right over the body. The M.E., there was a little bit of a process with the M.E. He would tell you what to do, this and that and he would check all the I.D. Then they put a flag over it and then somebody carried it out. Put them in the bag, put the flag over it and put them in the Stokes.

Firehouse: So then they put an American flag on the remains?
Fenick: Yes.

Firehouse: Everybody then got into position?
Fenick: Everybody lined up on the ramp. Then they would have an honor guard.

Firehouse: So you have a 500-foot walk up that bridge?
Fenick: I would say that’s a good estimate. That was a long, long way. So guys took a position all the way on either side. Yeah, all the way up and the ambulance waiting at the top.

Firehouse: When they did that, did everybody go to work when the ambulance left?
Fenick: Yes.

Firehouse: So did that happen sometimes several times in a day or a tour?
Fenick: Yes. The first couple of days I think they found – what did they find, nine guys in one day. They took them up three at the time or two at a time. We must have broke four or five times in one tour.

Firehouse: Were the guys happy that they found them or was there some other feeling that you felt when they found them?
Fenick: It’s not a happy feeling. It’s a rewarding feeling. I know it’s a hard emotion to put a finger on. It’s nothing to be happy about.

Firehouse: It’s a tough job to do, but was that rewarding?
Fenick: Very rewarding.

Firehouse: That’s why everybody was down there?
Fenick: I think so. Most of the guys were volunteers. It seemed like most of the guys had at least 10 years and over that I saw down there. The young guys I think were ordered. You could tell who wanted to be there.

Firehouse: Over the course of time when you were working, did you find a lot of bodies?
Fenick: Yes.

Firehouse: So the same process continued, with the medical examiner and the chaplain, and then getting the remains boxed up and bringing them out?
Fenick: Right. Stage them. Sometimes, they would stage them in an area and wait for the company to come. Everything was pretty much shut down. A couple of times, the fathers came down. I saw a wife go down there one time. We had a bunch of women.

Firehouse: Did many top chiefs come down there?
Fenick: Yes, Commissioner (Nicholas) Scoppetta led the procession. He would walk in the front with the chaplains and chiefs. And the guys would carry. A construction worker said something about what do you do with the civilians? We said we’ll have an honor guard for them. Then the construction workers would carry them. We’d have an honor guard for the civilians when the construction workers carried them out which I thought was nice.

Firehouse: Did everything stay shut down when they did that?
Fenick: Everything shut down. They would stop every five minutes if they had to. If they found two guys, that’s two recoveries. Then they would carry them up two or three at a time. If they found one, stop everything, honor guard, go back to work. Five minutes later find another one, stop everything. It slowed everything down there, but —

Firehouse: Did you see any apparatus or anything?
Fenick: They pulled out an engine, I think, and a chief’s car from the northwest corner.

Firehouse: Were you there when they removed the two trains cars?
Fenick: Yes.

Firehouse: How did they remove them?
Fenick: They put them on a big flatbed lowboy and drove them up the new ramp.

Firehouse: Did they have a crane lift up the train cars?
Fenick: Yes.

Firehouse: Were those the two rail cars that were smashed or were they in good shape?
Fenick: They were in good shape.

Firehouse: That’s the lowest level?
Fenick: Yes, I would say they were down to that in most of the area except for where they had built those two dirt roads.

Firehouse: How about the “bathtub”? Were there parts of it that you saw that were cracked?
Fenick: There were some good cracks. There was some pretty good water seepage here and there.

Firehouse: Did you see anything unusual down there like some pieces of glass?
Fenick: The biggest piece of glass was about two feet by two feet. That was the biggest piece I saw. That’s it.

Firehouse: Where were they, all the way down in the bottom?
Fenick: They must have came from the bottom of the south tower. Then some big chunks of concrete came out of that too after a while. One strange thing was we found a bag, an attache. It had the newspaper on Sept. 11, the morning before the planes hit.

Firehouse: How was the weather most of the time you were there?
Fenick: Most of the time good, a couple of cold nights. We had a couple of wet nights, a couple of rainy days. Those weren’t too bad. There was plenty of rain gear to be had.

Firehouse: That tent across the street where they put those lights up – what did you do there? Did you eat in there or did you shower?
Fenick: We ate in there. They had a little area you could take a nap. You could take a shower. They had bathrooms. You could wash up, brush your teeth, eat. We got in there together to chitchat, have something to eat, gather, meet. It was nice. They had lots of volunteers all over the place – what do you guys need, can I get it, do you need this, do you need that?

Firehouse: So you felt rewarded that you did it? Are you pleased that you did it?
Fenick: Yes. It was very rewarding, probably the most rewarding thing I’ve done on this job.

Firehouse: And it was probably the busiest month that they had for recoveries?
Fenick: It was good month. The guys going off told us we were going to have a good month. They didn’t find much. They were very disappointed. I kind of felt sorry for them. They were full of good advice, pace yourself. They all gave us their lockers with locks and everything. They knew that when they dug up that road, that that’s where everybody would be.

Firehouse: When you left, how much would you say was still there? I know there was still a lot of work to do, but in the areas closest to like the bathtub and certain areas that they hadn’t touched before, were they getting into those areas?
Fenick: I’d say 80% of it was to the bottom. Eighty percent of the bathtub was right down to the foundation.

Firehouse Magazine Reports---Battalion Chief Tom Vallebuona

WTC: This Is Their Story

From the August 2002 Firehouse Magazine

Battalion Chief Tom Vallebuona Battalion 21 - 29 years

Firehouse: You are assigned to Staten Island. Where were you when the planes hit?

Vallebuona: We had just had a run. It was a beautiful day and one of the guys came walking down the stairs and said, Chief, I just a got a phone call from my wife on her cell phone, she said there was an explosion in the World Trade Center. So we took a ride down to Marine 9, which is right by the Navy pier, where you can see right across the bay.

Firehouse: Is it close to the firehouse?

Vallebuona: It's 10 blocks away, in the Stapleton Park. A guy was just coming off the boat, Marine 9, and he had binoculars. I had my binoculars and we were looking at the building. It took me a while to realize this. I was looking and it looked like a little outline of a wing or something going into the building. We were looking at the south end of the building, and I just saw a little bit of smoke coming out. I don't know if I saw fire at that time.

I remember telling him, oh, we can put this one out. I thought he said that a small plane had gone into it. The plane had hit the north side and we were looking at the south side. I called up the dispatcher and I told him I wanted to go to the fire and I was complaining because I told him I was working the day of the last one (the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center), that he had stopped me at the 32 Battalion and that I wanted to go this time. As soon as I got to Brooklyn last time, they trapped me in Brooklyn. After I hang up the cell phone, a plane came over our heads. I watched it sort of lumber around on a turn. It was almost over our heads.

Firehouse: Did it come that far south?

Vallebuona: I don't know if it was quite over our heads or coming over Staten Island. So the plane seemed to come, but it was in front of us, really close. You couldn't get the perspective of the size of the plane because I saw two engines. It seemed to make a turn and it was coming over our heads, and it seemed to go slow and I'm saying to the aide, Steve, what's going on, what's that plane doing because it still hasn't registered. We were there for a couple of minutes.

And all of a sudden, it was like it just took off across the bay. I couldn't believe how fast it went. At first, I thought it was just somebody trying to take a look at Manhattan. And it just went right across right into the building. It looked like it got sucked into the building. You couldn't even see it disintegrate. It just went so fast and it looked like it just disappeared in the building and I heard it seconds later. I got that sick feeling in my stomach and, sure enough, the computer in the car went off.

I was looking at the cell phone, thinking, hmm, you want to go, but you don't want to go. I'm doing this too long---you want to be there, you're not going to back down, but boy, you're saying, hmm. And, sure enough, then we got to relocate to the 32 Battalion in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Firehouse: Did you think about the last incident?

Vallebuona: If I told you I was kind of glad we were going to the 32, in a way, it wasn't that I didn't want to go, but this is so bad I can't believe it. You knew people were dying by the hundreds. I didn't anticipate a collapse at that time so quickly, but it was a different story when you saw the second tower get hit.

Amazingly, by the time I got to the bridge, it was already closed. They had us waiting over there. It was amazing how little on the way there you're looking at the tower. I think when you look at the picture of Ladder 118, those guys really knew what they were going to. People would never realize how much a firefighter, especially if you got some time in now, especially a chief in a way, how much other things you're thinking about.

You don't necessarily have a chance to look. You're trying to figure out what's going on and you're talking on the radio. I remember Rescue 5 asking to go. I remember giving an urgent to the Staten Island dispatcher when the plane hit. I don't know what good this would do to tell the Manhattan dispatcher another plane just went into the another tower.

Firehouse: You told them that?

Vallebuona: Yes.

Firehouse: What did you say?

Vallebuona: 21 Battalion to Staten Island urgent, another plane just went into the other tower of the World Trade Center. I don't know what else I said. I remember calling up Teddy Goldfarb of Division 8, telling him you better start calling guys in, they better do a recall or something right away. I don't know why I would say that. Rescue 5 wanted to go. They didn't want them to go. I remember telling dispatch you better let them go, they're going to need all the rescues they could use.

We ended up in the 32. When I got to the 32---I got there pretty quick---and as soon as we get there, the 32's car was PMP'd (preventative maintenance program). They were out of service and we got a call from the Brooklyn dispatcher to bring them over to the command post at Vesey and Broadway. We had the guys put a bunch of cylinders in the rig, whatever they had. We took the chief. None of us felt too good about this, I tell you that.

Firehouse: Just one chief?

Vallebuona: The chief and his aide in the 32. The 32 is right there at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Outside the tunnel they were forming another box, transmit a second and third from there too for a staging area. So we're going through the tunnel and what a feeling going through that tunnel. There was a truck in front of us. I told the driver, Tony, don't go too close to the truck, figuring it was going to blow up.

We get out of the tunnel. The Brooklyn dispatcher begged us to come back if we could. You can't just charge into this thing. You got to figure out what's going on. And I figured there would be plenty of people there too. So I said I'll go and I'll ask. I had the aide stop as soon as we got out of the tunnel on West Street, you know halfway up, just before Liberty. And I saw a couple of guys setting up on the other side of the foot bridge that's still here, which turned out to be (Assistant Chief and Citywide Tour Commander) Gerry Barbara's aide, a couple of aides. I thought they were chiefs at the time. I said all right. I got the other guy out. I said wait here, I'll go up and find out if they want us, if they want me, if they want you here. This literally saved our lives because if I had kept on going---I don't know why I stopped. I'll never know why.

Firehouse: Where did you stop? By the foot bridge?

Vallebuona: Just before it, about half a block away. In front of 90 West St., but opposite that on the median. And so I walked up and I started to say something to him, they're going to need everybody, we'll just start from here. So I went back. The chief started putting his gear on. I went to grab my gear and stuff and I heard boom, a loud boom, I thought. I looked up, it was a beautiful sunny day, and I heard that crescendo sound.

But something scared me. It sounded like---it must have been all the aluminum on the side, like just shhh, shhh, shhh. I looked up and it looked like a fountain, like a firework. It was the south tower collapsing. I looked up. I said, oh, my God. I tell you I thought I was back in the firehouse asleep. I said this can't be real. The hotel was in front of the tower. The tower was really halfway up Liberty Street, so I guess I was really a block away. I was on the other side, next to 90 West Street, which I think is an old office building, and I realize I'm not far enough away.

I couldn't believe it. The stuff, it looked so pretty up in the air catching the sunlight, I guess the aluminum and stuff. I didn't realize it was coming over our heads. I turned around to run. Stevie, who's the aide, and me, we both started to run. I don't think we made it 10 steps before the cloud was there instantly, we saw it coming at us. I was looking around this horrendous-looking cloud, this brownish, reddish or whatever cloud, I couldn't figure it out. I had no idea what it was.

This is going to light up, I figured, we're buying it. And I was hunking down. You couldn't breathe, the old put-your-head-in-the-coat trick. Steve and I were holding hands and we just held up for a while because a breeze came by or something. I'm glad we got down because I don't know if we would have gotten knocked over or whatever. We could hear stuff around us, landing.

After we collected ourselves a little bit, we started to work our way south down West Street. We got to the next street, went west and still couldn't see beans. I found a store in the building that would be in Battery Park City. The store was open. I had a light. We started bringing people that are working around to the store. The sound was like a snowstorm, muffled. Everything was muffle---you know how the snow sort of quiets things up? I'm calling out to people. The guy had the store open, bringing people in, trying to figure out what's going on. You couldn't figure out what this cloud was. When I was lying up there, I thought it was going to be like Pompeii, we were going to be buried in dust.

When it cleared, we went back to the rig and I saw that Frank Cruthers had just come in. I saw him with a map or building plans or something he was setting up on his car. I saw another guy running up the street, then some other guys running up the street. I said, wait, don't rush, hold it up, let's figure out what's going on. I wanted to get my gear. I don't know why, but I guess everybody must have figured out that the other one's going to come down too. To me it wasn't a guess anymore. I figured if one came down, the other one's going to come down.

I didn't want to breathe that again because it just was so lousy. I didn't feel like I could go through that cloud again. So I put on my fire gear, grabbed my mask and gave Stevie his. He always still says he can't believe I said this. I said Stevie, take this, it's going to get worse before it gets better. It was getting pretty clear. I went over to talk to Frank Cruthers, to see what he wanted to do, to start getting guys. Guys were going up the street a little faster than I would like to, but they were doing what they thought was right and I admire their courage.

The next thing you know, boom, same thing all over again. The cloud, I think, probably was worse because it must have been picked up the dust from the first one, but the other one was so bad. It was just bad. You're running again. It's amazing the few people that are there and they're running and you don't see anybody. I lost Stevie this time. The same scenario just about. I put my mask on. Of course, I forgot that the mask was all full of dust from the first one, so as soon as I got a hit of that, it totally destroyed my eyes. We then worked our way south again a little bit. Things cleared up.

Firehouse: Where were you when the second tower came down?

Vallebuona: Same place, right back to square one, right at the car, just about a hundred feet below the foot bridge.

I can't remember if I saw fires the first time. The second time, I saw fires. The rigs were starting to burn. Cars were starting to burn. I'm surprised, I saw a few pictures, I can't remember. The smoke was starting to bank down pretty good in certain streets around there, even on West Street. It was like really turning into a pretty good fire condition all around us. 90 West St. had at least three floors burning. We had a cellar job there. The roof was starting to burn.

I dropped off my mask. I just didn't feel I could carry it anymore because it really just was too dusty. I don't remember if I left my coat on or not. I walked up the street, but I didn't have any boots. My boots were so full of dust I couldn't put them on. I walked up under the foot bridge and I saw (Deputy Chief) Charlie Blaich standing on a pile of the building. I looked around. I couldn't see too many people. Charlie was directing something.

It was pretty clear then. I looked in. I was so shocked and I just said, Charlie, I'm going to go down the street, get some water and we'll start knocking down the fires. I was not at that time up to climbing up to the top of the pile with what we'd been through and stuff. I just don't think I could have done it. It was just total despair. The force that I felt. I'd been through the worst collapse in my time in the job. It was maybe the worst time I've ever had as a firefighter. I never had such a feeling that everybody was dead in my whole entire life. I felt there was nobody alive. I just couldn't get rid of that feeling.

I just said, the best thing I can do is just put out some fires and confine the fire, try and keep it. Believe it or not, the objective I had in mind was to keep the fire from going south from that area that was starting to burn in the other building. Some people felt that it would have burnt itself out. I don't know. So we went back. There were guys there still. Guys were coming on in, but not a lot of people on the scene yet. And I really don't know what's going on. I know there was some surface rescues.

We took a look around in that area and we looked for surface people, couldn't find anybody around there. Never forget seeing a line, I remember the line going up and then after the second collapse the line just going before where the foot bridge had collapsed and just a big pile of rubble on top of it. Where we hunkered down on the other side of us on the other side of West Street was this gigantic piece of the World Trade Center. When we hunkered down the second time, we could hear it, sounds all around us. I don't know why we didn't hear boom, anything hitting like that, but it was all like soft stuff and I swear I felt it was people.

It was a day of frustration from that. It was like being at a battle. I tried to remember I was a chief and that you have to take charge or whatever and do something constructive---and I wanted to go home. The chief I brought over broke his shoulder, got hit by something after the second one and he broke his collar bone. I looked at him and I was jealous.

I'm pretty proud of what we did as a group. We did accomplish our objective. My objective in the beginning was that I didn't want anybody else to get killed and I wanted to confine the fire. That's why I've gone back, just because I would never believe it if I didn't go back.

We had lines stretched. We had some pumpers hooked up. The mains were shot. What else could go wrong? But things started going right then. They tried. We knocked down the first floor, which was almost an exterior operation of 90. 90 West St. also had next to it a scaffold covering the whole building and with everything we've been through with scaffolds, I mean that scaffold would have covered the whole block. We were very concerned about the scaffolding, so we tried to knock down the fire. We knocked down the fire on the first floor and I was saying, where do these fires come from, why are the rigs burning?

I forget what truck was burning and a squad was burning. There were a couple of rigs burning. There were a lot of cars burning. It was really banking down the street pretty good.

We put out the fire. I knew the place was wide open, so maybe we could put it out with handlines.

I also looked at it. There was nobody else there besides me at the time and a lot of guys I knew, but not that many. I said, let's see, if I showed up at this fire and this was the only thing going on in Manhattan, I would say third alarm, get ready for the fourth and the fifth. And I'd only say third. I wouldn't even say second. I'd say third because I've been battalion chief a long time. I know I can say there's a third because I know there's going to be a fifth alarm.

We tried. They had enough water. We were knocking down the first floor. We found a cellar door and we could feel the heat coming out of the cellar. I could feel the air being sucked in at the front door, so I said, that's it, and we shut the lines. And we had at least three more floors burning above us throughout the building and the roof was starting to go.

I remember we had a pumper go down the street, still no water going further south. I said this to a couple of guys, go down---you wouldn't think this was going to happen, but you realize with this thing the fireboats are going to be there somewhere. I told them go down to the river and see if you can find a fireboat.

The next thing I know, guys were coming up the street. It seemed like so quick I couldn't believe it. They were coming up the street with 3 1/2-inch lines and firemen from New Jersey were with them. It was unbelievable. So I said, you know what we're going to do, we're going to supply the standpipe in the hotel. It's salt water, but that's the way life is with this thing, Anything goes with this thing.

I said get a deck gun, take it to the roof and hook up to the manifold. We'll start knocking that thing down and we'll put other lines throughout the building. We'll do it like they used to do.

And they must have found the engineer in the building to get the pumps going too. We got some pretty good streams going out of there. We had 15 Truck, I think. It was a tower ladder. I didn't want him to go up the street. I was the biggest coward in the world that day. I was waiting. I thought every other building was going to collapse in Manhattan, I really did. I couldn't get rid of that feeling like everything is going to collapse. 7 World Trade Center---I couldn't even watch that. I said that's enough. I refused to watch that. I took R-and-R. I said you guys can watch that one. But they got streams and they contained the fire. I mean, the objective was nobody else got killed, the fire did not jump the street.

Firehouse: Would it have jumped the street?

Vallebuona: I don't know. How long you can let that type of building burn, how much content was in it? I don't know, but it was contained. It's just so hard to believe that a battalion chief would be thinking like that, let's keep the rest of Manhattan from burning.

Deputy Chief Bobby Mosier come in. There were a lot of people showing up. Even before Bobby came in, guys were coming from the ferry. A lot of firemen were coming in from the ferry and most of them I knew. Guys were coming who were from certain units, like SOC (Special Operations Command), units that I knew. I knew all the guys from Rescue 5.

I tried to make guys form into teams, an officer with five firemen, which they were doing pretty well. The guys were very cooperative and they really worked hard, unbelievable.

What went on at that pile that day, I don't know. We'd have people running down the street and then they wouldn't be running down the street. I tried to keep people away and eventually move the tower ladder up. The engineers were initially worried about the scaffold.

Firehouse: Were crews able to get the pump going at 90 West St.?

Vallebuona: The Marriott, the hotel. It was unbelievable that you could pump water from the Hudson and get a good stream going off the top of that building. I mean, that was pretty impressive. It was a newer building, so the pipes---I saw an aerial picture of the 90 West. From the street you couldn't tell, but it was C shaped. It had a courtyard in there. The other building was going next door too so we really didn't have much of an effect on that.

Guys were up by 10 and 10, climbing into that pile. That wasn't my day to do that, it just wasn't. I'm not ashamed of that. Obviously, I could have done more, but you run twice. This has been a couple of collapses for me. My only concern was to keep anybody else from getting killed. It took me forever to get over that. Amazingly, even just the stuff they did, when you really needed something, people would come through somehow. Then they're relaying the water to some pumpers. I mean guys are really doing stuff you didn't think we would to be able to do anymore.

I could relax, other people were showing up. And all of a sudden, a guy says, Chief, we're running out of diesel fuel. What else can go wrong? I mean, you know that's it.

I said to a guy, we need diesel fuel. He said, I'll see if I can find some. I don't know how he did it. He went down to the Marine Unit, they got a Coast Guard boat or something and they got diesel fuel.

Then you start saying, oh, things are going right. I took a little R-and-R then for an hour or so and I went down and relaxed. A lot of guys were down on the corner, where there was a little restaurant-type place. We thought 7 World Trade Center was going to fall and push the side of the World Trade Center that was still standing, and then it was going to go into 90 and I thought the scaffold was going to fall and cover the block and kill another 30 people. As silly as it sounds now, if you were there at that moment, I wasn't the only person thinking that way.

During that day---it was in Dennis Smith's book too---there was a guy, I'll never forget this, he was standing on top of a torso and he didn't even know it. The only reason I knew that the guy was telling me the truth was because of the places I've worked and I've stood on top of people. It's like standing on a mattress. And I realized, oh, yeah, you're right and I start looking, but I couldn't see it. A chief on the top of the Marriott called down to Bobby Mosier and said there were body parts all over the place, a lot of body parts were on top of a 50-story building a block or two blocks away.

There was a clinic set up a block away in the World Financial Center, I don't know what you call it, a triage station. I walked over there and they tried cleaning my eyes out. The pain was really bad. So the doctor said no, that's it, and he put patches over my eyes and they took me over to the hospital. I went to Beekman.

Obviously, we know we had some injuries around and people were moved to Jersey and elsewhere. I didn't know that at the time because I never really got to the waterfront. When I got to Beekman, I had patches over my eyes, but when I was leaving, I saw 50 (medical staff) people waiting (for patients), but nobody's showing up. And this was probably 8, 9 o'clock at night. I thought it would be like "MASH," blood all over the place. There was nobody.

It's sad. I would never call people up and say I've got a story to tell, because I know compared to their stories---Patty Mahaney and people like that. I try and be like them a little bit, to have that spirit and that courage and to care about the job a lot. I realized that I was very privileged to have seen something like this and to have been present because he's jealous of me because he was on the roof of Waldbaum's with me and you know he's always been jealous. He's says I've been in more collapses than him and he's mad that I was there and he wasn't. And he said that to me. And he said that a couple of tours later. He said you're lucky. I said, what are you kidding, but he was right. I was privileged.

Firehouse: I talked to Chief Mark Ferran of the 12th Battalion. He was working with 43 and directing them into Jonas and the other firefighters. But when he originally called up and he was talking to the aide in 12. He said, geez, I wish I was working today. He said they didn't want me to come in. Apparently, Battalion Chiefs Fred Scheffold and Joseph Marchbanks said, ah, it's only a fire---this was initially---ah, it's only a fire, tell him to stay home. Ferran said, I'll never, ever say I wish I was working, ever again.

Vallebuona: A couple of times, I've sworn that I wouldn't pray for them to go to a second. We did that at the Waldbaum's fire, but you know what, if you're going to stay on this job, you've got to still want to go. The day I don't want to go anymore is the day I've got to quit because there's no reason.

What saved a lot of units is that they closed the tunnel, so instead of coming in that way, they went over to the bridges. A lot of units from Staten Island would have been there again. I mean Staten Island comes out really fortunate, except for Rescue 5. So I went over to Beekman, and I didn't walk back. They gave me a ride halfway across and I walked along Broadway, I think, and I was shaken. I felt every building was going to fall on top of me. I couldn't believe it. I walked by where they had the landing gear or whatever in the street, I mean I'm looking, I'm saying what are you kidding me?

It was like that old Godzilla movie. Everybody says that, but it's true. It's like you're looking around, thinking, what the hell went through this town? I walked down Liberty Street. I couldn't make it all the way down to Liberty. When I got back there, Bobby Mosier said, Tom, why don't you just take a set of irons and force a door in the hotel and go get a bed? I said, Bob, that's not going to work, I'll see you tomorrow because I've got an 11 o'clock ferry boat. I have no idea what time it was, to tell you the truth.

A lot of young kids were going back on the ferry because they were sending them back. Then they decided to do the 24-on/24-off. They weren't saying much, they sat in the front of the boat as it left. Nobody sat in the back of the boat, which is not the way it works on the Staten Island ferry boat.

Firehouse: Everybody usually looks at Manhattan?

Vallebuona: Yeah, but nobody looked. The kids said to me they thought I was going to jump off the boat. They got off the boat and an official from the UFOA was there who was assigned to the Division, the deputy chief. He looked at me, he says it was really bad, you've got to see the pictures of the dust.

I'll never forget riding back on the bus. Then some guys start joking and I said listen, guys, we lost a bunch of guys there. I wasn't nasty. I didn't get mad. I didn't yell at them and they said yeah and then we went to Engine 116 and later on they said they were sorry.

Imagine that walk home. I had to go home and take 17 showers---my wife saved the stuff. There's still dust coming out of every part of my pants. It's disgusting.

Firehouse: Was there one thing that really stuck out in your mind?

Vallebuona: The thing I'll always remember was looking up and seeing the stuff billowing out of the building when it first started coming down. It was beautiful initially, then I realized it wasn't beautiful. I was fortunate I didn't see people coming out. I didn't see people leaping out.

Believe me, I did not have it as bad as most of the guys had it there who survived. I just think it's important that we should all be willing to say what we saw. I'm willing to tell anybody because I don't think there's going to be one book about this, just like there's not going to be one book about Gettysburg.

Firehouse Magazine Reports---Lieutenant Bill Wall

This interview is getting much harder to find, but it can be located for the time being at archive.org

WTC: This Is Their Story
Firefighters Elevated to Almost Mythic Status
From the April 2002 Firehouse Magazine

Lieutenant Bill Wall Engine 47 - 16 years

We were additional units on the fifth alarm for the south tower. We went right down. We went down West End Avenue and we ran into West Street and just went straight down West Street. We parked about a block up from Vesey.

We saw a lot of smoke and flames in the upper floors. You really couldn’t see the south tower from where we were. We walked down the west side of West Street and we were keeping close to the buildings. And when we got to the Customs House, there was a policeman behind one of the pillars. He jumped out and said we got to get in because they’re tracking another inbound meaning another plane, but we ignored him. We kept going.

We went under the north pedestrian to the west side of West Street. And we made our way down to the south pedestrian bridge, crossed under that and we made our way into the Marriott Hotel. Chief Galvin was behind the desk and he was forming companies into groups. We eventually hooked up with 22 Engine, 13 Truck and, I believe, 21 Engine. And Chief Galvin told us to go to the 40th floor because that’s the lowest report they had a fire. The south tower. We were supposed to follow this guy who worked in the buildings. He was going to lead us to an elevator that still worked. But luckily, the guy who took us to the working elevator took us to the wrong tower. We went to the north tower. Saved our lives. Wrong place at the right time. We never got into the south tower. He took us right to the north tower.

We get into the lobby of the north tower and the first elevator bank, there was one elevator out of the six that still had the lights on, but they couldn’t get it to work. Meanwhile, all the other elevators were blown off their doors. So we tried the next elevator bank of six and they finally got one that worked to the 24th floor. I think it was captain of 21 he went up to check. He went up and he came back down. He went up with his guys and someone from the truck took the elevator. And then the other engine went up in the next load, 22, and on the load after that, the truck was going up. They wanted one of our guys to run the elevators since there was only one truck, so I gave the control radio to Fireman Louie Cacchioli.

It seemed like just as soon as the doors closed, the panel went out. But he had actually gotten to the top floor and the rest of the truck got off. And the last guy getting off was the irons guy, and Louie grabbed him back and says you got to stay with me because I need the tools. And as soon as the doors closed, the power went out and they were stuck in the elevator. It hadn’t moved yet. It was still on the 24th floor. They were able to force their way out pretty easy. They just popped the doors open because the elevator didn’t move yet.

The guy from the truck thought his company went to the right and Louie went to the left. And Louie found the staircase and I think he said he got down about six floors, but the staircase was blocked, so he crossed over and found another staircase and he made it to the lobby. And he had to force the door open at the lobby because it was jammed. He made his way out into the street and he hooked up with the chauffeur just before the second tower came down.

Meanwhile, in the lobby, it seemed like just as soon as the elevator doors closed, the power went out. They just went black. We couldn’t see a damn thing. It turned black and then it started rumbling and the wind and dirt was unbelievable. It was just like a hurricane. It threw me against the wall. Steve Viola said he was hurt and Keith Murphy said he was hurt. Steve lost his helmet, it got blown off his head.

After everything stopped, I looked down and I says count off, you’re supposed to take like a roll call, shout out your name. Everyone shouted out their name and said they were all right. We just like locked arms together and started walking out. There was a building worker there that was going to stay, but Tommy Terilli convinced him to come with us. We still don’t know who he was. He was worried about his job. Tommy Terilli says they don’t pay you enough, come on. When we got out of the elevator lobby, we made the right past the turnstiles and there was also people at the bottom of the escalator coming down. They were looking for a way out, so they grabbed on the line too. The visibility was zero. We got this whole line.

On the way in, I noticed that all the windows in the lobby were blown out, and that it would be a good way out if we needed to – and it was. We had to make a right out of the elevator corridor and then another right. But it was so dark that I bumped into a wall. That’s how bad the visibility was.

We started walking that way and it gradually got lighter, lighter and lighter to where we could see the windows. We went out the windows. We went straight across West Street straight out and then we got across the street and we went up north.

Debris was still falling. You couldn’t see the sky. Maybe you could see like 30 or 40 feet up. And the weirdest thing, you could hear these booms above you. It sounded like bombs going off above you, but it was actually the military jets flying overhead. It was like an eerie feeling. You couldn’t see anything, but you could hear these things going back and forth. It was like a real heavy fog.

We started heading north up West Street looking for ambulances for Murphy and Viola. We found a pumper and our eyes were burning, so we pulled the booster tank, opened the gate and washed our faces down.

Then we made our way north and we saw all the ambulances lined up on Vesey Street. We found an EMS worker and he promised to take good care of Steve and Keith – until he ran away on us. As the other one was coming down, he opened the back door and he took off.

We were on our own. We got them into the ambulance. Tommy Terilli and I started making our way back because now all the Maydays were starting. It was broken up a lot, but you could hear Mayday, Mayday and they were giving locations. So Tommy Terilli and I got some tools. We put our masks on and we headed back down, and we made it to Vesey and West Street. There was a chief directing everybody north saying they were going to regroup and go back in. I went over to him and kind of stressed the Maydays were here and now, and we were talking and that’s when the north tower came down. You heard it, a big snap and a crack. And we looked up and it looked like the whole top just exploded.

Everyone just started heading north. Everyone just ran. We got hit by the wind and the dust and I was running with Jack Ginty. He was running. I caught up to him and we were talking as we were running, what the hell are we doing here, Jack? The dust cloud overtook us and there was a big white Suburban. There was about seven of us behind it huddled. Jerry Riley was there from 22 Truck, me, Jack and a couple of other guys. And it was getting tough to breathe. I had my mask, so we were passing the mask around. You couldn’t see, so whoever was yelling for it, I would like feel their face and just like slap it on their face for a little while. Then feel the next guy’s face and then pass it to him and then take some for myself. My other guy, Tommy Terilli, he dove under a tow truck.

After like the wind and stuff subsided and we realized, all right, there’s nothing to do here, we just got to walk out of it. So we started walking north on West Street and walking and walking and we bumped into something and it turned out to be an apparatus. If you stick your face real close to it, you could see the light flashing. There was just no visibility.

I don’t know how far we got. A water truck showed up, somebody delivered the bottled water, like the five gallons of water, so we started grabbing them off the rigs and started washing our eyes out again. I tried making contact with my control man, but he had dropped his radio. I was trying to make contact with my chauffeur, but I forgot we were on Channel 3 and he was still on Channel 1. After a while, I switched back over to Channel 1 and I was able to contact the chauffeur, and the control man was with him.

They were pushing us up north, up West Street. And we all regrouped by Stuyvesant High School.

As soon as we sat down, I got all the gear off and we’re taking a blow, someone came running out of the high school saying there was a bomb in the building, so we ran further north. That’s pretty much it for the rest of the day. They wouldn’t let us back in.

REPORT NO. FIRE DEPARTMENT - CITY OF NEW YORK Bureau of Operations REPORT OF SERVICES AT FIRE 1 42

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Chief of Battalion

DawReceivedS/ll/Ol Time Received Q905 Time Returned 10 Qus 0100 Date Returned to Qtrs Ordered to Quarters by ADC Felleni Received signal 5 _ g Signal was for Fire at WTC On Dury at Firti4 Houmo Minutes At Work at FireL2 HoursOO Minutes OmofQtrs^4 HoursQQ Minuies while AQ and responded to same. Arrived at location

WORK PERFORMED
Upcn arrival foun^hief I was directed by in command

to-

Staged 2nd alarm assignment at entrance':t6:midtown Tunnel. Closed L.I.E. east at Vandam St. to all but emergency traffic. Cleared tunnel prior to response(possible terrorist target}. Responded to West and Vesey. Took cover after Tower 1 collapsed. Entered collapse area for search and rescue. Assisted and supervised recovery of Lt.Ein Customs building mezzanine level. Removed 2 civilians from 6th floor of Customs builing. Supervised fire suppresion efforts on Greenwich St. Continued to operate in collapse area (west St) supervising and assisting in numerous rescue and recovery efforts.

BC John Papa Battalion Chief Battalion 45

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FIRE DEPARTMENT • CITY OF NEW YORK
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collapsed engulfing BC Strakosch, BC Fischler,

^ in debris
Searched

cloud, established command post at JVest and Chambers Street. Verizon building. Supervised

debris removal and search operations, seturne

to quarters at 0130 hours on September 12, 2001.

REMARKS

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Accidents or Injuries to yourself or Aide and/or other members while working under your direct command, or damage to Department automobile assigned for your use shall be reported under "REMARKS", FOLLOWED by a special report.

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REPORT NO. 1043 FIRE DEPARTMENT - CITY OF NEW YORK REPORT OF SERVICES AT FIRE

Chief of Battalion 01 Box No. 300 Time Received 03:31 Time Returned to Qtrs 10:30 Date Returned to Qtrs 12/25/01 Ordered to Quarters by Received signal BOX 300 by TELEPRINTE while IN QTRS and responded to Signal was for FIRE at WORLD TRADE CENTER

December 25, 2001 —^ Date Received December'25, 2001 On Duty at Fire 07 Hours 00 Minutes At Work at Fire 06 Hours 00 Minutes Out of Qtrs 07 Hours 00 Minutes same. Arrived at location in 25 minutes.

WORK PERFORMED

Upon arrival found in command I was directed by to: RESPONDED TO WTC AND SUPERVISED SEARCH AND REMOVAL OF VICTIMS OF WTC ATTACK. RELIEVED AT IOC B.C.John Kleehaas Battalion Chief Battalion 46

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REPORT NO. 1044 FIRE DEPARTMENT - CITY OF NEW YORK REPORT OF SERVICES AT FIRE

Chief of Battalion 01 Box No. 300 Time Received 21:31 Time Returned to Qtrs 04:30 Date Returned to Qtrs 12/25/01 Ordered to Quarters by Received signal BOX 300 by TELEPRINTE while IN QTRS and responded to Signal was for RELIEF at WORLD TRADE CENTER

January 16, 2002 • Date Received December 25, 2001 On Duty at Fire 07 Hours 00 Minutes At Work at Fire 06 Hours 00 Minutes Out of Qtrs 07 Hours 00 Minutes same. Arrived at location in 25 minutes.

WORK PERFORMED

Upon arrival found in command I was directed by to: RESPONDED TO WTC AND SUPERVISED SEARCH AND REMOVAL OF VICTIMS OF WTC ATTACK. RELIEVED AT 040 B.C.Robert R.Turner Battalion Chief Battalion 46

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REPORT NO. FIRE DEPARTMENT - CITY OF NEW YORK Bureau of Operations REPORT OF SERVICES AT FIRE

78

Chief of Battalion

September 11, 2001

Box No. 2033 Date Received September 11, 2001 Time Received 09:55 On Duty at Fire 17 Hours 45 Minutes Time Returned to Qtrs 02:30 At Work at Fire 15 Hours 00 Minutes Date Returned to Qtrs 09/11/01 Out of Qtrs 17 Hours 45 Minutes Ordered to Quarters by UNKNOWN Received signal BOX 2033 by MDT while OUT OF QUARTERS and responded to same. Arrived at location in 25 minutes. Signal was for STAGING AREA at VESEY & WEST STREETS

WORK PERFORMED
Upon arrival found UNKNOWN in command I was directed by UNKNOWN to: upon arrival was ordered to report to command post at Vesey and West streets. While approaching command post .tower #1 began to collapse. After collapse of Tower #1, Bn-49 set temporary command post at Chambers & VgseT Streets. Bn-49 under the direction of BC Keenan, supervised operations on the WTC Customs bldg under the direction of DC McNally Dv-14. Operated until ordered to assist operations on the Liberty Street side of the WTC bldgs. Bn-49 operated on mounds at the collapse site of Tower #1, evacuating 2 civilians from the debri of Tower #1. Bn-49 supervised rescue operations on the liberty & Washington st side until ordered to return to the command post on Vesey. Bn-49 continued to operate as staging coordinator for Vesey St command post and FDNY Liason officer in the Emergency Operations Command Post under DAC Courtney until ordered to return to quarters. Michael Keenan Battalion Chief Battalion 49

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COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 1 Battalion Engine Company 251 TIME: DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL min. Relocation Block No. Time Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Q False Alarm

BOX No.
Location or Address: 2 World Trade Center Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for: 03 Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL xx Building: Classification by Occupancy

NON STRUCTURAL

[_J Residential Commercial D Public |_) Fireproof Fire-Protected £3 Non-Fireproofed Metal [~l Heavy Timber Classification by Construction [D Wood Frame Number of Stories 110 Story Area x Ordered to Return to Quarters by At Work Hours Minutes Time Returned Date Returned Capt. Gallagher, FF R Kelly, Hirten, Joyce, andRavert Members Responding Members Relieving Hydrant: Location 125 Broadway Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used 9 days Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4.5 min. min. min. min. min. min. Remarks:

OPERATIONS: Supplied 2 lines to manifold and 2 handlines

7Rank

Captain

Group No. 12

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COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 45 Battalion BOX No. 8087

Engine Company 258 TIME: 0900 DATE September 11, 2001
Adm. Dist. E-10 Received by:TELEPRINTER Arrived in 60 min. I U Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL D Relocation Block No. Time 0900 Q False Alarm

Location or Address: WORLD TRADE CENTER Responded to Signal 4-4 While IN QUARTERS Alarm for: 53 Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL X Building: Classification by Occupancy

Assigned 1st Due on 4th Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL D Public [U Non-Fireproofed Q Heavy Timber

13 Residential O Commercial 3 Fireproof O Fire-Protected Classification by Construction ^] Wood Frame D Metal Number of Stories 110 Story Area 225 x 225 Ordered to Return to Quarters by MANHATANDISP Time Returned 2300 Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 14 Hours 6 Members Responding 6 Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 Remarks:

30 Minutes

MASK NO. 1 3 5

Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Gallons Used: Fresh Salt DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION 30 min. Scott 4.5 2 30 min. 30 min. Scott 4.5 4 30 min. min. min.

RECEIVED TICKET AT APROX O900 TO PROCEED TOSTAGING AREA AT MIDTOWN TUNNEL AND ORDERED TO RESPOND TO WTC AT APROX O950 HRS. PARKED RIG AT WEST AND CHAMBERS AT APROX 1010 HRS.

OPERATIONS: ENROUTE TO 1 WORLD TRADE ,WHEN IT CALAPSED;WAS AT THE CAMMAND CENTER FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. MEMBERS LT LENWILL BURMESTER;FF CARNEY;FF DUTTON;FF BRAUANGEL;FF DENARO;FF RAFFERTY;FF MOORE ,L-111

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45 Battalion

Engine Company 259
TIME: 0905 DATE September 1 1 , 2001 Adm. Disl E-10 Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 60 min. CD Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL Q Relocation Block No. Time 0905 Assigned Special Called on 4th Alarm Q False Alarm

30XNO. 8087 .ocation or 'Address: World Trada Center Responded to Signal 5-5 vVhile in Quarters Alarm for. $< Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX Building: Classification by Occupancy

NON STRUCTURAL

Q Residential Fireproof Wood Frame Classification by Construction Number of Stories 110 Story Orderea to Keturn to Quarters i»y Membeps Responding Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Wal... Tiiii* Used >lasks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 Scott 4.3Remarks:

Commercial Q Public Fire-Protected D Norv-Fireproofed D Metal n Heavy Timber Area 300 x 300 AtWfifK 13H«in; n Minutes

MASKT?O. 1 3 4

Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Gallons I kwi- Frash Salt DURATION TYPe: MASK NC. • uui^n iv» 30 min. ScOtt4.5 2 30 min. 30 min. Scott 4.5 4 30 min. 30 min. Sooti 4.5 6 30 min

flrri.-iirr)0«Mr{-ixc»twTTjTift Ami st Huntepa Point-flV3 t, 21ctrset^Box 7115 at 0. recivea ticKei iu-i^u»pwi nl tv BCA tOOfl, Wti* C< and '/*•••/ £4. Ucmborr BasrvMvl LT Walah C250 , FF Cano, FR Watson, FF O'Sullivan. FF MacDonald, FF Smith OPERATIONS: Upon arrival at aprox 10:10 hours we parked appartus at west Stand Chambers Street Enroutu to Command post when the North Tower Collapsed. Unit operated as directed Ksscu* «nd support fuMuliuii* until ordewri ^n tnko up at aprox 2200hrs

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Battalion

Engine Company 260 TIME: 0847 DATE September 11,2001 Adm. Dist. Block No.

BOX No. 80&7 Location or Addj^ss: World Trade Center Responded to Signal Whi/e in Quarters Alarm for: ^ Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XXXXXXXX Building: Classification by Occupancy

Received by. Teleprinter
•Arrived-frHS iiiin. CD Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL D Relocation

Time 0902
Assigned 2nd Due on 5th Alarm Q False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL

Lj Residential i Commercial D Public KI Fireproof Fire-Protected Q Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction Q Wood Frame Metal D Heavy Timber Numbw of Storioo- HO Story Area 300 x 300 Ordered to Return to Quarters by Bn. 46 Time Returned 2200 Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 13 Hours Minutes Members Responding Lt. Rnrlre, FF. ChHtoml, FF. Nash, FF. Dolaney, FF. Behrami, FF. Lenney. Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Wster; Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt MA-SKWi nilftATlCJW TYPC MAOK Wft: C/UKMI Masks Used TYPC Scott 4.5 mln. mln.

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Remarks: Ordered to respond to Hunters Point Ave and 21 Str ( Stafljrjg Area). Once thara wa were ordered to respond to West Str. and Ve«ey Str (WTC ). On arrival we were responding to the Command Post wnen sodxtenryth*"2nd towor started to collapse. We retreated up West Str. until we were out the collapse zone . Once I conducted a roll call we responded to the Staging Are
OPERATIONS:

Rank Lieutenant

Group No 13

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COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: Battalion

Engine Company 261
TIME: 0901 DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Received by: Teleprinter Arrived in min. Block No. Time Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation Q False Alarm

BOX No. 55-8087 Location or Address: World Trade Center Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for: Fire: STRUCTURAL x Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction £3 Fire

Emergency

TRANSPORTATIONAL
CH Residential |~~] Fireproof [~~| Wood Frame

NON STRUCTURAL
Commercial Fire-Protected Metal

D Public Q Non-Fireproofed O Heavy Timber

Area Number of Stories 107 Story Ordered to Return to Quarters by Vesey/West Command Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 14 Hours 30 Minutes Time Returned 2330 Capt. O'Neill, FF Roccovich, Scott, Bednar, Regan Members Responding Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 MASK NO. Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Gallons Used: Fresh Salt DURATION min. min. min. TYPE MASK NO. psi

DURATION min. min. min.

Remarks: no masks were used for any duration.

OPERATIONS: Eng. 261 responded to muster point at 0901 hours on 9/11/01. Arrived at WTC between 1st and 2nd collapse. Members were walking toward buiding when 2nd tower collapsed and were cauht in the debris cloud. Ff. Roccovich was struck in the back by a vehicle and was hospitalized. Reported to the Vesey/West Command Post. Assigned to the Staging Area and was used on 3 different occassions to perform searches for surface victims on West Streetin proximity to nthe North Tower. All searches were negative

Rank Captain

Group No.

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COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 1 DulLuliun BOX No. 8087 Location or Address: World Trade Center Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for: [^ Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XXXX Building: Classification by Occupancy Received by.Teleprinter Arrived in Q Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL min. Q Relocation Engine Company 262 TIME: 0902 DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 0902 Assigned Special Called on 1st Ala mi Q False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL

Q] Residential ^ Commercial Q Public £3 Fireproof Q Fire-Protected Q Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction Q Wood Frame Q Metal (~1 Heavy Timber Number of Stories Story Area x Ordered to Return to Quarters by Staging Area at West St. Time Returned 2230 Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 13 Hours 30 Minutes Members Responding Lt Walsh, FF Dattoma, Kebbe, Brancato, Neligan, Hassell Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4.5 1 15 min. Scott 4.5 3 15 min. Scott 4.5 2 15 min. Scott 4.5 4 15 min. Scott 4.5 5 15 min. Scott 4.5 6 15 min. Remarks: E-262 was special called to a staging area in Queens at 21st & 45 ave with B-45 & B-49. E-262 responded to the WTC with all units at the staging area when assigned by the Manhatten Disp.

OPERATIONS: E-262 was appox 3 blocks north on West street reporting in with B-49/B-45 when the 2nd tower came down forcing members to take cover. E-262 was than directed by B.C. Keenan B-49 to extinguish a large number of cars burning in a lot to the north and west of the intersection of West & Vesey. Using E-220 rig, E-262 first used foam and than water to extinguish appox 30 to 40 cars. E-262 than reported in to the staging area on West St. and stood fast till told to return to qtrs.

Rank Lieut&rfant

Group No. 16

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COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: Battalion

Engine Company 262
TIME: 0845 DATE September Adm. Dist. Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 25 min. Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL |_j Residential £3 Fireproof Q Wood Frame fj Relocation ; 2001 Block No. Time 1325 Assigned Special Called on 1st Alarm Q False Alarm

BOX No. 8087 Location or Address: WTC Responded to Signal Admin. While in Quarters Alarm for: ^ Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XX Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction

NON STRUCTURAL ^] Commercial O Fire-Protected _ D Metal Public Non-Fireproofed Heavy Timber

Number of Stories 110 Story Area x Ordered to Return to Quarters by BC Cook Time Returned 2100 Date Returned 9/20/01 At Work 6 Hours 30 Minutes Members Responding Capt. Home, FF Daly, FF Freese, FFLesmeister, FF Donnelly, FF Hassell Members Relieving Eng. 96 Hydrant: Location N/A Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4.5 min. min. min. min. min. min. Remarks:

OPERATIONS: Eng 262 relieved E 151 on Broadway and Barclay Supplied L 114 with water for about 6.5 Mrs. then took up upon being relieved by E 96.

Rank Captain

Group No. 2.

CD-I5 (10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 1 Battalion BOX No. 8087

Engine Company 263
TIME: 0847 DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Received Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation Q False Alarm

Location or Address: WORLD TRADE CENTER Responded to Signal CONTINUING OPS Time 0300 byTeleprinter While in Quarters Alarm for: ^ Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL X Building: Classification by Occupancy Arrived in 10 min. fj] Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL

NON STRUCTURAL

F] Residential CD Commercial D Public O Fireproof ^ Fire-Protected [~| Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction (~~l Wood Frame D Metal |~~l Heavy Timber Number of Stories 110 Story Area 200 x 200 Ordered to Return to Quarters by UNKNOWN Time Returned 110 Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 9 Hours Minutes Members Responding LT RUSSOMANTO, FF BROWN .JENSEN, RUOPOLI, KNAPIK Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Water: Time Used MASK NO. Masks Used: TYPE DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION mm. Scott 4.5 mm. min. min. min. min. Remarks:

OPERATIONS: MEMBERS WERE INVOLVED IN DIGGING AND RECOVERY PROCEDURES

Rank Lieutenant

Group No. 13

co-

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
ion
BOX No. 0300 TIME: 1348 Location or Address: WTC Responded to Signal ADMIN CALL While in Quarters Alarm for: [XI Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX Building: Classification by Occupancy Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 60 min. Emergency DATE September 30, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 1348 Assigned 1st Due on 3rd Alarm Q Relocation O False Alarm

Engine Company

TRANSPORTATIONAL

NON STRUCTURAL
^ Commercial O Fire-Protected D Metal Area 500 x D Public |~1 Non-Fireproofed PI Heavy Timber

_] Residential ~^\f Classification by Construction ^] Wood Frame Number of Stories 110 Story

Ordered to Return to Quarters by BC KLEEHAUS Time Returned 2045 Date Returned 9/30/01 At Work 7 Hours 0 Minutes Members Responding LT VELLA,ANTONELLI, LOHLE, ST. JOHN,PASQUIN, WESTOFF Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: MASK NO. TYPE DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4.5 0 mm. mm. min. min. min. min. Remarks: E263 FEED TL 115 AT BARCLAY AND PARK PLACE.

OPERATIONS: > ,' E263 FEED TL 115 AT BARCLAY AND PARK PLACE. ^-OPERATED UNDER BC KLEEHAUS.

C Rajik Lieutenant

Group No. SA 10

CD-13

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 52 Battalion BOX No. *0o7 Location or ' ' •: . j .- :' • Address: MSU at Randalls Island
* " ! ' '

Company 274
. TltyB.09:23 ••} DATE September t1, 2001 -. Adfri. Dist Received by:Teleprlnter TimeO$r23 Arrived in min. Jj Emergency
TRAN&PQRTATJONAL

Stock No

Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for.
Fire: STRUCTURAL*Building.

.: Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm D False Alarm

J3 Flra

.Q Relocation

NON STRUCTURAL

Classification by (Occupancy Fireproof Wfiod Frame Classification by Mushber of Sferiad ;11Q Story Ordered to Return-to Quarters by
Time Returned 10 ' Members Responding Members Relieving Hydrant; Location Water Time Used Masks Used: tYPE Scott 4.5 f Date Returned 1/12/01

Commercial. Rre-Ffotedted Metal Area .

D Public. NIon-Fireproofed Heavy Timber

AtWoek 2$ Hours 0. Minutes

U Srrtuloeeski, FFs K. Hamilton, OeVito, Lazina, WiHiams l_t. CrjHey, FFs Cooper, Bentley, Jenserj, M. Hamlfton
{ Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi

j '
|

'•
MASK NO.

GaHons Us~ed: Fresh
DURATION TYPfe

"

Salt
MASK NO. DURATION

! i !

. '

min.. rnin. min.

,"

min. min. min.

Remarks: Engine 274 waa cirdered to pfc|< up mask cylinders at MSU ori Randalls Island and deliver them to the Worltf tra^e Center.

OPERATIONS: ' • " ' : . . ' . / • ' Arrived at box is ToWer 1 collapsed. Remaining on the «cane for the next 24 hours. Assisted in the evacuation of ih« bas«m«nt of building five, supplied tower ladders from different engines, and assisted with search and rescue. {Extinguished multipfe vehicle fltes, arirffirle vn bLtftdirtg Five. Ordered to back ^ut Of co-ftapse rone.

Rank LieMtena jtt

Group

CD-I 5 (10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 1 Division? BOX No. 8087 Location or Address: 1 WTC Responded to Signal While in qtrs Alarm for: £3 Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL x Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 90 min. Q Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL I I Residential [X] Fireproof O Wood Frame Engine Company 289 TIME: 0915 DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 0915 Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Q Relocation Q False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL Commercial Fire-Protected Metal Area 200 x 200 Q Public Q Non-F'reproofed Q Heavy Timber

Number of Stories 110 Story Ordered to Return to Quarters by BC Fischler Time Returned 21 30 Members Responding Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 MASK NO. Date Returned 9/11/01

At Work 12 Hours 30 Minutes Lt Bruno, FF's Dunphy, DeBenedittis, Kelly, Gallagher, LaGreca Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Gallons Used: Fresh Salt DURATION mn. min. min. TYPE MASK NO.

psi

DURATION min. min. min.

Remarks: E289 was special called to pick up extra Scott cylinders from Randall's Island and then respond to 1 WTC. Upon arrival the second tower was coming down. Tactics changed to rendering any 1st aid that was needed. I reported to Ch Fischler (Bn 46) and was under his command for the duration of our operations.

Rank Lieutenant

Group No. 13

/
To: 46 Battalion

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
Engine Company 292 DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time

BOX No. 8087 TIME: Location or Address: WTC Towers 1 and Towers 2 Responded to Signal Recall Unit While home Arrived in 45 min.

Received by:Telephone media

Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm D Relocation Q False Alarm

Alarm for: £<] Fire Q Emergency Fire: STRUCTURAL WTC TRANSPORTATIQNAL Building: Classification by Occupancy Q Residential D Fireproof Classification by Construction Q Wood Frame Number of Stories 110 Story Ordered to Return to Quarters by Time Returned Members Responding

NON STRUCTURAL
£3 Commercial Q Fire-Protected Q Metal Area x £<] Public Q Non-Fireproofed Q Heavy Timber

Date Returned 9-13-01 At Work 48 Hours Minutes Capt Citeno, Lt Kaminski, FF Gray, FF Chamowitz, FF Naviasky, FF Salano E24, FF "unreadable" E55 Members Relieving No relief was effected until 0900 hours on 9-13-01 Hydrant: Location Members operated as a recall unit without equipment or apparatus. Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION No Scotts min. min. were Issued upon arrival min. min. min. min. Remarks: Upon arrival all members reported to the staging area a West Street and Canal Street. Here we were ordered by BC Callopy Officer in Command of that staging area to form a company that could operate under Bn 8. We were directed with several other units under the direction of Bn 8 to report to the Millennium Hotel were we stretched a line from the standpipe system. We had composed this line from standpipe kits, hose, and equipment found on the damage and abandon apparatus found among the WTC debris. At this time the Millennium Hotel was considered an exposure problem and our assignment was to prevent an extension of fire to the Hotel. After several hours we were ordered to evacuate the Millennium Hotel due to the imminent collapse a 45 story office building adjacent to the WTC complex. Upon collaspe we were directed by BC Power who was assisting command of the Broadway Command Post to operate under BC Coward and prevent fire from extending to the Post Office opposite the 45 story office Building that just collasped. We operated under BC Coward with several other recall companies one engine and stadpipe equipment prevent fire extension to the Post Office. At 0145 hours on 11-12-01 we were then directed by BC Coward back to the Broadway Command Post. At the Broadway command post we were then sent to the South Tower to assist in the rescue of two ESU police officers who had fallen through the debris of the south tower. At the South Tower we operated under Bn 39 BC Ayer. A chain of rescuers were formed in an attempt to rescue the two ESU police officers. This chain consisted of about 150+

above the ESU officers during this operation. This resulted in the effected rescue of both ESU officers after several hours. Capt Citeno was treated for smoke inhalation by a New Haven CT paramedic unit and released. After this operation I had relieved FF Salano and the FF from £55 to report back to their firehouses. The members of E292 arrived at quarters at 0700 hours those who had worked the 0900 hour shift of 9-12-01 remained on duty and those who were not were relieved.

OPERATIONS: The apparatus of E292 along with the day tour of 9-11-01 were relocated to E5 and remained there for 48 hours.

Rank Captain

Group No.

Pax:1716-539-5503
CD-I J (10 JO)

Jan J6 2002 10:35

P. 03

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT

To:

BartteHon

Engine Company 297
TIME: 0900 ' Received by: Teleprinter Arrived in Emergency TftANSPORTATIONAL min. Awyn&d •*-*£_, Q Relocation D False Alarm DATE' Adrn Diet

BOX No. WTC
Location or Addnm: WTC Whllt In Quajtere Alton for gU Pirn: STRUCTURAL at Budding: Classification by Occupancy

12,2001
Block No. Time 0900

Responded to Stgnfl

-NON STRUCTURAL

Public ; Residential Commercial Firtproof NorvFireproofed I Fire-Protected Heavy Timber Classification by Construction I Wood Frame _l Metal Number of Stejries . 110 Story Area Ordered to Return (o Quarter* by CWTC Harold Meyers Time Returned 100 Date Retum*d^1W01 At Work 16 Hours 0 Minutes Members Responding 7 Members Relieving Ei Hydrant: Location Start p*F Finish pal Avtrage psi Water Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4 J min. mln. min. min. min. mln. RemerXs; E297 kjst extensive Mot» end a radio lent to E202

OPERATIONS: • y ! . S 397 eperated f 2 ]& " Une onto 7 world trade center from the tecond arid third floors of the federal offbe htijtdlngtE 202 uaed our rig and radio to pump at another location. E 297 operated In en eebeiitoe abatement tree, in the federal bulWing.On the night tour we operated under DO Wocnice at the main command poet. We operated a line with tny hoaa we could Place together to extm^uiehflrees eearehee wera going on.

0-0

Renk Captain

Group No.

EN53C5 CD i*ao-oo-

Fax:4231869

J.r. S 2002 13:33

P. Cl

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 1 Battalion BOX No 0085 Engine Company 306 TIME: 0100 DATE September 12, 2001 Asm. Disi. E TO Received by.Teleprinter Arrived in 5 min. Q Emergency TRANSPORTATIONS. . Q Relocation Block No. Time 0100 Assigned 2nd Due en 5th Alarm Q False Alarm

^Location or Address. Broadway & Vesey Street Responded to Signal All Bora Wnile in Quarters Alarm for ^ Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL fire Buildir Classification by Occupancy

NON STRUCTURAL

[j Residential §£ Commeraai _ Q Public {§! Fireproof Q Fire-Protected fj Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction CD Wood Frame ) Metal Q Heavy Timber Number of Stories 46 Story Area 100 x 100 Ordered to Return tc Quarters by BC Lyons Time Returned 700 Date Returned 9/12/01 At Work 6 Hours 0 Minutes Members Respond ng U. Wojcik, Fr. Sehaefer, Fr. Fftton, Fr. Moran.Fr. DiMaggio. Fr. DeLuca Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Broadway & Vesey Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used Gallons Used' Fresh Salt .-.Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO DURATION s Scott 4,5 rnin. min. ii th , min. min. " rnin. min. Remarks: Reported to Broadway command post. Assigned to BC Fox & DC Malr.
i« £ SS

OPERATIONS: Operated 2 1/2 inch hand-lir.e out of the second floor window of the U.S. Post Office Extingushed pockets of fire in the rubble of World Trade Center tfc "7 .

/A-crv Rank Liautenant Group No. I

CD-I5 (10/601 03-no

£
BOX MO. Location or Address

r*

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT

£-3*6
COMPANY

* loyurvx/

DATE A fi/r/~ ~~• j ^~ C— •»
J^^ <&~7'/'-J~ - by Construction Nwrnbar of Storiw Ordered to respond o

G JHe«id«nti,jl G iPlraproof frame

D Commercial D FkO'prctected D Metal . Area

Pubte ._) Non-firsproofed ; Heavy titiber

— by.
0»t« f&turrwd
.mm

Member, responding

FF

^•/^g

Members Time. Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used TY»£ Pressures; S»rt. . Gallons Ui»d-Freeh.
MASK NO. DURATION TYPt

F nish
SaH.
1**

Average

NO.

DURATION

s_
Remarks'

OPERATIONS:

OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 46 Battalion BOX No. 0300 Location or Address: WTC #4 Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for: EX] Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL x Building: Classification by Occupancy Received by.Teleprinter Arrived in 20 min. Emergency

Engine Company 319
TIME:-1725 DATE September 18, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 1725 Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Q Relocation Q False Alarm

TRANSPORTATIONAL

NON STRUCTURAL

Residential I I Commercial D Public £<] Fireproof D Fire-Protected |~1 Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction O Wood Frame D Metal L~U Heavy Timber Number of Stories Story Area Ordered to Return to Quarters by Liberty Command Time Returned 125 Date Returned 9/19/01 At Work 8 Hours 0 Minutes Members Responding Lt. Baccari FF Bohenek,Mattone,Nietschmann,Zaczyk,Slattery Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4.5 mm. min. min. mm. min. min. Remarks:

OPERATIONS: E319 reported to Liberty Command, searched dibris WTC #4

Rank Lieutenant

Group No. 1

UUMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 46 Battalion
BOX No. 0300 Location or Address: WTC #4 Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for: £><] Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL x Building: Classification by Occupancy Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 20 min. D Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL

Engine Company 319 TIME: 0020 DATE September 28, 2001
Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 0020 Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation Q False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL

Residential O Commercial D Public Fireproof O Fire-Protected O Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction Wood Frame D Metal f~l Heavy Timber Number of Stories Story Area Ordered to Return to Quarters by Church St, Commmand Time Returned 0620 Date Returned 9/28/01 At Work 6 Hours 0 Minutes Members Responding Lt Locher,FF Mattone,Manganaro.Of,Olitan,Zaczyk Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Fulton St.—Church St. Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used 3hrs Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Masks Used: TYPE MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4.5 min. min. min. min. min. min. Remarks:

OPERATIONS: E319 reported to Church St. Command,E319 supplied a water tanker truck with 2 1/2 line from E319 . Location was WTC#4

Group No. 19

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT

o: DIV 1
OX No 0050 ation or

Engine Company 324/Stt 4 TIME: 1826 DATE 9/11/01
Adm. Dist. Received by:TELEPRINTER Arrived in 20 min. G Emergency TRANS PORTATIONAL Residential Fireproof Wood Frame Story by COMMAND POST Block No. Time 1825 C Fa's® Alarm

WORLD TRADE CENTER esponded to Signal BOX 0050
fh:le

AQ

Assigned ADDITIONAL UNIT Q Relocation

arm for: X Fire re: I-RUCTURAL X jiiding: assificalion by Occupancy

WON STRUCTURAL

Commercial
Fire-Protected Metal Area x

assification by Construction Number of Stories dared to Return to Qrtrs ne Returned 0605 imbers Responding tmbers Relieving arant: Location iter Time Used *sUsed:

Public Non-Fireproofed Heavy Timber

Date Returned 9/12/01 At Work 12 Hours 0 Minutes LT. HAMILTON, FF WOLFE, LEE, KLIMKOWSKI. McDONAGH, McANDREWS N/A SPRUCE ST AMD PARK ROW Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average N/A Gallons Used: Fresh Salt MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO

psi

TYPE

Scott 4.6

min. min. min.

DURATION min. min. min.

marks:

ERATIONS: E324/SAT 4 REPORTED INTO COMMAND POST. ORDERED TO LAY 5 INCH SUPPLY LINE TO COMMAND POST. UNIT THEN STOOD FAST UNTIL ORDERED TO TAKE UP.

P/\JJSL^~ Rank Lieutenant

££#T Group No. 16COV

CD-15
COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 1 Battalion Engine 324 TIME 1400 Adm.Dist Arrived in 30 E Fire
TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

RfipO/t NO DATE 10/02/01 Block No. Received by Teleprinter Time 1400 min .
TYPE Of OCCUFANCr

BOX NO. 0300 Location or Address World Trade Center

Responded to Signal 5-5 Alarm Wnile In Quarters Alarm for. Fire: STRUGTUAL xxxxx» Building: D Emergency TRANSPORTATION

Assigned Special callDue on [D False Alarm
T1PE Of OCCUPANCY

G Relocation

NON STRUCT

Classification by Occupancy Classification by Constuction Number of Stories

OResidential ^Commercial QPublic ^Fireproof QFire Protected DNon F.P. QWood Frame CjMetal Qheavy Timber Area by Command post

Ordered to return to Qtrs Time Returned 0100

Date Returned 10/03/01

At Work 1J

Hrs 00

Mir

Members Responding Lt. Taoue. FF Molonev. O'Dea. Droiet. McDonaoh. Revere E-269 Members Relieving Lt. Bender, FF. Klimkowski, Bacenet, O'Sullivan, Smaldon Hydrant Location Water Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 MASK NO. 1. 3 5 Pressure Start Gallons Used - Fresh DURATION min. min. mm. TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 MASK NO. 2 4 6 DURATION min. min. min. Finish Average

Remarks:

Operations: E-324 was supplied with foam by a private company and supplied a tower ladder putting foam on smouldering pockets of fire.

7
Lieutenant Group No. 16

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 49 Battalion
BOX No. 2033 Location or Address: WTC Responded to Signal 5-5 While in Quarters Alarm for: ^ Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XX Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 20 min. |~l Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL l_j Residential O Fireproof O Wood Frame

Engine Company 325 TIME: 0955 DATE September 11, 2001
Adm. Dist. E-10 Block No. Time 0955 Assigned Istjbue on 3rd 3^"xoa
te-'-Lj^ • : • •-:
£*;. • • . . " - . • i .

;-<••

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: Battalion Ladder Company 117 TIME: 0906 DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Eng 10 Received by Teleprinter Arrived in 4 min. I I Emergency
TRANSPORTATIONAL BOX No. 8087

Location or Address: World Trade Center Responded to Signal Sig-7 addit unit While AQ Alarm for: Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL High rise Building: Classification by Occupancy

Block No. Time 09:30

Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation d] False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL

CD Residential £3 Commercial D Public I3 Fireproof CH Fire-Protected O Non-Fireproofed CH Wood Frame Classification by Construction D Metal [HI Heavy Timber Number of Stories 110 Story Area x Ordered to Return to Quarters by QIC Time Returned 2:30 Date Returned 9/12/01 At Work 17 Hours 30 Minutes Members Responding Lt Muniz (cov) FF Lush FF Sarro FF Baldwin FF Poole (rot) 5th- FF Detailed for Tour (Unknown) Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Water: Time Used Gallons Used: Fresh Salt MASK NO. Masks Used: TYPE DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Scott 4.5 1 30 min. Scott 4.5 2 30 min. Scott 4.5 30 min. 3 Scott 4.5 4 30 min. Scott 4.5 4 30 min. Scott 4.5 30 min. 6 Remarks: The information contained here is related by members recollections from that day, 4 months ago, to Lt Hay. The Officer working that tour was covering and unavailable for report at this time.

OPERATIONS: TL 117 was special called to the Qtrs of L-128, the Queens Staging Area, at approximately 09:30 Hrs. Then, at about 10:00 Hrs, TL 117 was ordered to relocate to the Qtrs of L-3, were it responded to three runs. At Approximately 1400 Hrs L-117 was special called as additional unit to WTC- Liberty and West Street. There , members helped stretch handlines, operated bucket and dug. The company was relieved and returned to it's own Qtrs about 02:30 hrs on Sept. 12,2001.

Rank Lieutenant

Groiup No. 10

CD-15 (10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: -45-Battalion
BOX No. 8087

Ladder Company 128 TIME: 0901 DATE September 11, 2001
Adm. Dist. Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 4 min. Q Emergency TRANSPORTATJONAL ^] Residential ^ Fireproof ^] Wood Frame 105 Story by Date Returned 9/11/01 Block No. Time 0901 Assigned 3rd Due on 3rd Alarm D Relocation O False Alarm

Location or Address: 2 WORLD TRADE CENTER Responded to Signal 3 RD ALARM While in Quarters Alarm for: 1 Fire 3 Fire: STRUCTURAL YES Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction Number of Stories

NON STRUCTURAL £<] Commercial O Fire-Protected D Metal Area 500 x 500 D Public f~l Non-Fireproofed f~l Heavy Timber

Ordered to Return to Quarters AtWork 10 Hours 18 Minutes Time Returned 2218 LT Berghorn, FF Hawkins.Swick, Watson E259, Guttman, Panaro Members Responding Members Relieving Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Hydrant: Location Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Water: Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 MASK NO. 1 3 5 DURATION 30 min. 30 min. 30 min. TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 MASK NO. 2 4 DURATION 30 min. 30 min. min.

Remarks: ALL MEMBERS ACCOUNTED FOR FILED CD 73 FOR ALL EXPOSURED MEMBERS

OPERATIONS: Responded to 3rd alarm at staging areas near entrance to Midtown Tunnel. Parked rig 4 blocks away, walked up to fire scene, were caught in smoke cloud from second tower collapse. Searched for trapped firefighters near Liberty Street in rubble FF trapped rigs DOA. Ordered to abandon search due to unstable building that eventually collapsed

c/Rank Gaptairu.' --*~

Group No.

CD-15( 10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 1 Battalion
BOX No. 2033 Location or Address: west st & vesey Responded to Signal special call While in Quarters Alarm for: Fire: STRUCTURAL x Building: Classification by Occupancy IXI Fire Received by: Teleprinter Arrived in 60 min. D Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL

Ladder Company 136 TIME: 0902 DATE September 11, 2001
Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 0902 Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation D False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL [Xl Commercial D Fire-Protected D Metal Area D Public !~] Non-Fireproofed f~l Heavy Timber

I I Residential I I Fireproof Classification by Construction [""I Wood Frame Number of Stories 110 Story Ordered to Return to Quarters Time Returned 2200 Members Responding Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 MASK NO. 1 3 5 by staging area

Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 14 Hours 0 Minutes Capt McNally, FF Ferring, Wirta, Ferrara, Cowan, Berna same Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Gallons Used: Fresh Salt DURATION 20 min. 20 min. 20 min. TYPE MASK NO. 2 4 6

psi

DURATION 20 min. 20 min. 20 min.

Remarks: L-136 was reporting to staging area on west and vesey when north tower collasped. assigned to safety chief Turi to search for command post. L-136 operated under the direction of BC Kleehaus searching for surface victims on west st. at numerous locations. CD-73 exposure reports filed for all members OPERATIONS:

Rank

CD-15 (10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 1 Battalion
BOX No. WTC OPERATION TIME: 0920 Adm. Dist. Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in Emergency TRANSPORTATION min.

LADDER 138
DATE September 11, 2001 Block No. Time 0920 Assigned 1st Due on 4th Alarm CH Relocation Q[] False Alarm

Location or Address: WORLD TRADE CENTER Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for: ^ Fire: STRUCTURAL OFFICE Building: Classification by Occupancy

NON STRUCTURAL I I Commercial L~H Fire-Protected IE! Metal Area 250 x 250 Public Non-Fireproofed Heavy Timber

I Residential 3 Fireproof Classification by Construction Wood Frame Number of Stories 110 Story

Ordered to Return to Quarters by Time Returned 2330 Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 8 Hours 30 Minutes Members Responding CAPT. MALONEY, GR. 3, FF. MULLER, GR. 3, LAURIA, GR. 25, CORR, GR. 14, FANARA, GR. 5, WOJCIK, GR. 4, FEARON, GR. 15 Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time IUsed Masks Used:: TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 MASK NO. 1 2 3 Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Gallons Used: Fresh Salt DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION 15 min. Scott 4.5 4 15 min. 15 min. Scott 4.5 5 15 min. 15 min. Scott 4.5 6 15 min. ROACH McNALLY KEENAN

D.C. D.C. B.C. INJURY SUSTAINED BY CAPT. MALONEY TL-138
Remarks: OPERATIONS:

OPERATED UNDER COMMAND:

DIV. 14 DIV. 14 BN. 45

ALL MERMBERS OPERATING SUSTAINED EXPOSURE RELATED INJURIES. 1. REC'D ALARM TO ASSEMBLE ON QUEENS SIDE OF MIDTOWN TOWN. 2. REC'D ORDER TO RESPOND TO MANHATTAN AND ASSEMBLE AT WEST AND VESCY STREET.AND AWAIT ORDERS. 3. WHILE STANDING BY AT ABOVE LOCATION , NORTH TOWER OF WTC COLLAPSED ON MEMBERS. 4. REGROUPERD AND ACCOUNTED FOR MEMBERS, COMMENCED WIDESPREAD SEARCK OF RUBBLE ON WEST AND VESCY ST. FOUND MEMBERS UNDER RUBBLE REMOVED TO SAFE LOCATION. 5. B/O/0 CHIEF McNALLY COMMENCED EXTENSIVE SEARCH OF CUSTOMS BLDG OF WTC RESULTS NEGATIVE 6. ORDERED R& R RETURNED TO STAGING AREA AT WEST AND CHAMBERS AND AWIATED FURTHER ORDERS CAPTAIN JOHN M. MALONEY TOWER LADDER 138 GR. 3

„ ._ ,_.. ,
CD-IS (10-60)

16 '02

9:51

P.C1

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT

To: 1 Battalion BOX NO WTC

LADDER Company 138 TIME: 2100 DATE September 12,2001
Adm. Dist Block No.

Location or Address: WORLD TRADE CENTER Responded to Signal While in Quarter* Alarm for El Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX Building: Classification by Occupancy

Received by-Teleprinter
Arrived in 15 min. D Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL £!3 Relocation

Time 2100
Assigned 1st Due on 1st Alarm Q False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL

D Residential LJ Commercial Public S Fireproof D Fire-Protected Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction Heavy Timber D Wood Frame D Metal Number of Stories Story Area x Ordered to Return to Quarters by WTC COMMAND POST Time Returned 230 Date Returned 9/13/01 At Work 5 Hours 30 Minutes Members Responding LT NAVARETTA, FF T, MARINO, FF REINHARDT, FF D. MARINO, FF MILLER, FF MALLEY Members Relieving Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Hydrant: Location Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Water Time Used MASK NO. DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION Masks Used. TYPE min. mln. Scott 4.5 mln. min. mln. min. Remarks: OPERATED UNDER WTC COMMAND POST

OPERATIONS: TL138 OPERATED AT WTC EXTINGUISHING FIRES AND SEARCHING FOR VICTIMS.

Rank Lieutenant

Group No. 22

Jan 16 '02
L.U-15 (IU-6UJ

10=15

P.C1

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT

To: 1 Battalion

LADDER Company 138 TIME: 0333 DATE September 17,2001 Adm. Dist. Received by:Teteprinter Arrived in 15 min. Block No. Time 0333 Assigned 1st Due on 1st Alarm D Relocation D False Alarm

NO. wrc
Location or
Address: Responded to Signal While in Quarters Alarm for. ^j Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX Building: Classification by Occupancy

WORLD TRADE CENTER

D Emergency
TRANSPORTATIONS D Residential C3 Fireproof Q Wood Frame

NON STRUCTURAL

Commercial Public Fire-Protected Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction Heavy Timber Metal Story Number of Stones Area Ordered to Return to Quarters by WTC COMMAND POST Date Returned 9/17/01 At Work 9 Hours 0 Minutes Time Returned 1233 Lt Melly, FF P. Gunther, FF Ftnara, FF Reinhardt, FFK. Gunther, Members Responding FFPrior.FF Mcltey Members Relieving psi Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Hydrant: Location Gallons Used: Fresh Salt Water: Time Used DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION MASK NO. "Masks Used: TYPE mln. min. Scott 4.5 min. min. mln. min. Remarks: OPERATED UNDER WTC COMMAND POST

OPERATIONS: TL 138 OPERATED AT WTC EXTINGUISHING FIRES AND SEARCHING FOR VICTIMS.

Rank

Group No. 3

_ _^

_ _

__J_an 16 '02

9:52

P.03

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 1 Battalion
BOX No. WTC OPERATION TIME: OS4S DATE September 20,2001

Location or Address: WORLDTRADE CENTER Adm. Diet Block No. Responded to Signal RacehredbyrTtlaeitrter Time084« While In Quarters Arrived in 18 rrrtn. Assigned 1st Due on 1st Alarm Alarm for: E9 Fire D Emergency Q Relocation Q False Alarm
Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX
TRANSPORTATION NON STRUCTURAL

Residential Commercial Public Fireproof Fire-Protected Non-Flneproofed Classification by Construction Q Wood Frame I Heavy Timber Number of Stories Story Area Ordered to Return to Quarters by WTC COMMAND POST Time Returned 1200 Date Returned I/20J01 At Work e Hours 18 Minutes Members Responding LT DE GIROUHO, FF CORR, FF KELLY, FF WRIGHT, FF T. MARINO, FF
GENNOSA, FF WHSINBURG€R

Building: Classification by Occupancy

Members Relieving Hydrant Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4,8
Remarks:

Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Qalona Used: Fresh Salt
MASK NO. DURATION
IMR»

pal

TYPE

MASK NO.

DURATION
fnm,

mln.
OPERATED UNDER COMMAND:

OPERATIONS: 1. TL1M RESPONDED TO WTC COMMAND POST. TL138 WAS USED TO OPERATE TOWER LADDER TO EXTINGUISH FIRES IN RUBLE AND SEARCH FOR SURVTVER9

2. 3.

LIEUT.

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Rank

Group No. 3

COMPANY OPERATION* REPORT
To: 1 Battalion

_ Jan 16 '02

10:04

P. Cl

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 1 Battalion

LADDER Company 138 TIME: 1800 DATE October 1,2001
Adm. Dist. Block No.

BOX No. WTC

Location or Address: WORLD TRADE CENTER Responded to Signal While in Quartan Alarm for Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX Building: Classification by Occupancy

Received by:Tetoprinttr
Arrived in 15 min. D Emergency TRANSPORTATION Residential Fireproof Wood Frame Q Relocation

Time 2100
Assigned 1»t Due on 1st Alarm Q False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL

Commercial S Public Fire-Protected Non-Fireproofed Classification by Construction Heavy Timber Metal Number of Stories Story Area Ordered to Return to Quartan by WTO COMMAND POST Time Returned 200 Date Returned 10/2/01 At Work 8 Hours 0 Minutes Members Responding Capt Maloney, FF Tarantinl, FF Sheehan, FF Rosa, FF Multer, FF T.

Marino, FF Fanara
Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water Time Used Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.6 MASK NO. Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi

Gallons Used: Fresh DURATION TYPE

Salt MASK NO.

DURATION

mln. mln. min.

mln. mln. min.

Remarks:
OPERATED UNDER WTC COMMAND POST

OPERATIONS: TL 138 OPERATED AT WTC EXTINGUISHING FIRES AND SEARCHING FOR VICTIMS.

Rank Captain

Group No. 3

CD-I5 (10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 1 Battalion BOX No. 5-58087 Ladder Company 152 TIME: 0846 DATE September 15, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 1800 Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm D Relocation Q False Alarm

Location or Address: World Trade Center, Tower 2 Responded to Signal Surplus While in Quarters Alarm for: ^ Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction Received by:Telephone Arrived in 99 min. Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL f~l Residential ^ Fireproof O Wood Frame

NON STRUCTURAL £3 Commercial D Fire-Protected D Metal D Public O Non-Fireproofed CD Heavy Timber

Number of Stories 110 Story Area 425 x 425 Ordered to Return to Quarters by BC Conlisk, Bn 54 Time Returned 300 Date Returned 9/16/01 At Work 6 Hours 0 Minutes Members Responding Lt. Bauer, F/r"s Me Greoary, Poma, Duffy, Cooney, Prevete, Ladder 152 Members Relieving Members of Ladder 4, Engine 54 Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: N/A N/A TYPE MASK NO. Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Gallons Used: Fresh Salt DURATION min. min. min. TYPE MASK NO. psi

DURATION min. min. min.

Remarks: None

OPERATIONS: Members reported to ComrpXand Post and transported Firefighter's personal effects from temporary mourge to Command Post. Members were then directed to the Staging Area at the intersection of Church and Dey Streets, under the direction of Deputy Chief Rup. Members surveyed the scene and were ordered to stand by. Members were releived by Engine 54 and Ladder 4. Members took up.

Group No. 15

•15 (10-»C)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To Battai/on LADDER Company 154 DATE September 1 , 2001 1 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 2126 C False Alarm

BOX No. 9097 TIME: 2126 Location or Address: 1 WORLD TRADE CENTER Responded to Signal 5th Alarm Received byrTeleprlnter Whtto 10-8 Alarm for £*J Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL x Arrived in 3 min. D Emergency
TRANSPORTATfONAL

Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation

NON STRUCTURAL

Building.
LJ Residential Commercial Q Public K Fireproof Fire-Protected Q Non-Frreproofed Classification by Construction Q Wood Frame Metal Q Heavy Timber Number of Stones 110 Story Area 200 x 200 Ordered to Return to Quarters by Deputy Chief Hey Time Returned 2200 Date Returned 9/11/01 At Work 4 Hours Minutes Members Responding Lt Lusenskas FF Mario FF McCrory FF O/eaga FF F/tall FF Stephan Members Relieving Hydrant; Location Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average ps/ Water: Tims Used Gaiions Used; Frssh Salt Masks UsedTYPE MASK NO, DURATION TYPE MASK NO DURATION Scott 4.5 min. mm. rtifn. rnin. win. mln. Remarks; Ladder 154 was acting Ladder 6 Classification by Occupancy

5PERAT/ONS: L 154 helped stretch a fine to L146,was then to/d to locate e/ectrical vaults in the Berkley Building. L154 *et up portable fighting at 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER

Rank Lieutenant

Group No. 3 cov.

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT
To: 49 Battalion
BOX No. 5-5-8087 Location or Address: WTC Responded to Signal 5-5 While in Quarters Alarm for: £3 Fire Fire: STRUCTURAL XXX Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction Number of Stories Ordered to Return to Quarters Time Returned 2355 Members Responding Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used ;ed Masks Used: TYPE Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 Scott 4.5 MASK NO. 1 3 5 Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average psi Gallons Used: Fresh Salt DURATION TYPE MASK NO. DURATION 30 min. Scott 4.5 2 30 min. 30 min. Scott 4.5 4 30 min. 30 min. min. Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in D Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL O Residential [>3 Fireproof CD Wood Frame 110 Story by Date Returned 9/11/01 min.

LADDER Company 163
TIME: 0903 DATE September 11, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time Assigned 1st Due on 3rd Alarm O Relocation Q False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL Commercial Fire-Protected Metal Area At Work 14 Hours 50 Minutes Public Non-Fireproofed Heavy Timber

LT.FULLAM L-130,FF,DODA,LEONICK,CLEARY,HARRINGTON,MICCIO

Remarks: L-163 RESPONDED TO BX.7115,A STAGING AREA FOR B-45,46,49.

OPERATIONS: L-163 ARRIVED AT STAGING AREA AND EVENTUALLY PROCEEDED TO WTC. L-163 PARKED RIG ON WEST AND VESSEY. AT THIS POINT, THE MEMBERS PROCEEDED ON FOOT TO THE SCENE.THE FIRST TOWER HAD COLLAPSED PREVIOUSLY. WHILE ON FOOT THE SECOND TOWER CAME DOWN AND L-163 MEMBERS RAN FOR COVER AND WERE EVENTUALLY SPLIT UP. MEMBERS OPERATED WITH OTHER TEAMED UP MEN AND BEGAN SEARCHING FOR AND AIDING PEDESTRIANS. SOME MEMBERS WOUND UP SEARCHING UNDER GROUND SUBWAYS AND SUB LEVELS. OTHER MEN STAYED ON PILES AND SEARCHED FOR MISSING AND TRAPPED. THE COMPANY EVENTUALLY REFORMED AND RETURNED .

Rank Lieutenant

Group No.

CD-15 (10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 1 Battalion
BOX No. 0300 Location or Address: Broadway and Vesey Responded to Signal Special Call While in Quarters Alarm for: Fire: STRUCTURAL x Building: Classification by Occupancy Classification by Construction £<] Fire Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 30 min. U Emergency TRANSPORTATIONAL [J Residential Q Fireproof D Wood Frame

Ladder Company 164
TIME: 1330 DATE September 20, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 1330 Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation [~l False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL Commercial Fire-Protected Metal £3 Public 0 Non-Fireproofed 1 I Heavy Timber

Area Number of Stories Story Ordered to Return to Quarters by West command post Time Returned 45 Date Returned 9/21/01 At Work 11 Hours 15 Minutes Members Responding Lt. Keenan.FF Murry,FF Raymond.FF Akers, FF Glenz, FF Reilly Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Gallons Used: Fresh 35000 Salt MASK NO. DURATION min. min. min. TYPE MASK NO. psi

5 hrs.

TYPE Scott 4.5

DURATION min. min. min.

Remarks:

OPERATIONS: L-164 operated as a tower ladder on the corner of Broadway and Vesy pouring water on smoldering portions of bldg.#7 of W.T.C.

Lieutenant

Group No. 23

'CD-I5 (10-60)

COMPANY OPERATIONS REPORT To: 1 Battalion BOX No. 0300 Location or Address: Berkley and Greenwich Responded to Signal Special Call While in Quarters Alarm for: Fire: STRUCTURAL x Building: Classification by Occupancy ^ Fire Received by:Teleprinter Arrived in 30 min. Emergency TRANSPORTATIONS. PI Residential Q Fireproof O Wood Frame Ladder Company 164 TIME: 0430 DATE September 26, 2001 Adm. Dist. Block No. Time 0430 Assigned Special Called on 5th Alarm Relocation O False Alarm

NON STRUCTURAL [~] Commercial (~) Fire-Protected D Metal Area D Public I | Non-Fireproofed |~1 Heavy Timber

Classification by Construction Story Number of Stories Ordered to Return to Quarters by West Street Command Post Date Returned 9/26/01 At Work 7 Hours 0 Minutes Time Returned 1130 Lt. Keenan.FF Murray.FFGIenz.FFReilly.FFAkers.FFFinnell Members Responding Members Relieving Hydrant: Location Water: Time Used Masks Used: 4 hrs. TYPE MASK NO.

Pressures: Start psi Finish psi Average Gallons Used: Fresh 30000 Salt DURATION mm. min. min. TYPE MASK NO.

psi

DURATION mm. min. min.

Remarks:

OPERATIONS: L-164 was special called ,as a tower ladder.to operate at the corner of Berkley and Greenwich St.L-164 Applied water onto bldg. #7 of W.T.C.

Rank Lieutenant

Group No. 23