I’m an operating engineer, running crane(起重机) in New York City. I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had36the World Trade Centre. We checked out of the hotel immediately and started37our way downtown. When I got home, I called the rescue center and they told me to come38and get on the39list.
The next morning I went down to the40at about 5 A. M., and four hours later I41the call to come down to West Street. I called my wife and told her not to42me, and that I would stay in43with her. I took the subway. It stopped at West Fourth Street, so I had to44the rest of the way.
And somewhere in there I became45when I went into something I46. I once worked there in 1966 for the47of the World Trade Centre. On halfway on September 12, I was frightened to see the World Trade Centre was a huge pile, maybe ten48tall. And it was burning. I started to ask49in which my crane might be50a whistle blew suddenly warning us of some er. I saw people running away and I really didn’t know what to do. So I did the same, too. It was as if they had51the bulls go in Spain and we were running through the street. People falling down, people52them up as they came by, and carrying them, just to get them out of the way, because something was extremely53. I didn’t even look back. We stopped running when we got to the Battery Tunnel, and I caught my54and said, “Oh, my God, I’m going to die.”
Then I 55a little bit, thinking about what we should do next. As we started again we knocked into a fire chief officer and we asked, “What can we do to help you?”
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