September 12, 2001, the day after
September 10, 2001: the night before
"There should be a law against working on such a beautiful day.", 7:45 a.m.
"Lower Manhattan is really MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) City.", 8:30 a.m.
"We had a view of the World Trade Center.", 8:45 a.m.
"Eric, look at that! Look how low that plane is.", 8:46 a.m.
"We noticed smoke coming off the first building.", 8:47 a.m.
"We are gearing up, psychologically, for a major MCI.", 8:49 a.m.
"I wanted to surround the lower tip of Manhattan, and the Battery Park area, with fireboats.", 8:54 a.m.
"There were people running everywhere.", 8:55 a.m.
"There were bodies strewn all over West Side Highway.", 8:59 a.m.
"I knew right away we couldn't put the fire out.", 9:00 a.m.
"With the second plane in, I knew this was no accident.", 9:02 a.m.
"People were streaming out toward the ferry.", 9:04 a.m.
"You have to evacuate the injured.", 9:07 a.m.
"Thousands of people were running toward the water.", 9:09 a.m.
"That shuts down New York Harbor.", 9:15 a.m.
"It just looked like too much, high-rise towers, free burning like that.", 9:19 a.m.
"The tower might come down in the harbor.", 9:21 a.m.
"That's your evacuation plan - everybody goes south.", 9:41 a.m.
"All of a sudden, you hear boom, boom, boom.", 10:00 a.m.
"It looked exactly like an avalanche coming down the street.", 10:02 a.m.
"People kept coming down the seawall just looking to get away.", 10:12 a.m.
"We had steel beams all around us.", 10:22 a.m.
"The group started jumping over the wall into the boat.", 10:24 a.m.
"[It was] a lot of chaos, a lot of people running around, a lot of screaming, a lot of people asking for help.", 10:26 a.m.
"The building was a quarter-mile high, and we were way too close.", 10:28 a.m.
"They give us water and comfort.", 10:35 a.m.
"The only way out [for the injured] was by boat.", 10:41 a.m.
"We started putting the women and children on boats to get them over to New Jersey.", 11:00 a.m.
"There are twenty-seven to thirty tugboats sitting there.", 11:05 a.m.
"Get the hell out of the city.", 11:10 a.m.
"Just like the Titanic.", 11:15 a.m.
"We have no communications with the outside world.", 11:25 a.m.
"We had to get back in the game.", 11:30 a.m.
"Everybody seemed to be migrating down toward the water zone.", 11:50 a.m.
"Every vessel in the harbor was moving.", 11:59 a.m.
"We know evil.", 12:00 p.m.
"I felt like I was on a landing craft going into the beach at Normandy.", 12:05 p.m.
"No one was talking.", Afternoon
"By 12:30 p.m., we had established a water supply.", Afternoon
Epilogue: a peanut butter sandwich
