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“The men stand outside their vehicles and discuss their payloads.”
“Because there were so many volunteers, it was difficult to find actual work for them to do.”
“People walked through the legions of resting workers, asking if anyone needed a ride home.”
“Officials had just started kicking firemen from other cities out of GZ, an issue of liability.”
“If you had a mind to do it, it wasn’t hard to get past the first set of roadblocks at Canal Street and down to Chambers.”
“*** A t three in the morning, the dump trucks are lined up the West Side Highway for twenty blocks.”
“Just off the main drag there were Indian-food stations, pasta bars, pretty young women in Prada sport pants giving out Dove Bars.”
“Everyone rushes to offer them relief.”
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“Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Remembering 9/11 Volunteers at the Gates of Hell Among all the people who came to help at Ground Zero after 9/11, the question always was the same: “How close did you get?” By Devin Friedman Devin Friedman September 11, 2026 Rescue workers look for victims in the rubble of the World Trade Center collapse.”
“Joe says he thinks about the body parts that may lurk in the rubble.”
“I talked for a while with a departing fireman while he smoked Pall Malls (almost every fireman I met smokes).”
“I asked him what it looked like up close, and he said, “It’s a fucking dump.”
“Two of the sassier ladies set up chairs and offered to wipe firemen’s faces with moist towelettes.”
“The firemen are making one of their frequent marches from the mound, out of GZ, up West Street.”
“Women carried trash bags as mobile garbage collection.”
“You want an adjustment?” Related Content On 9/11, Not a Single Patient Arrived at the Triage Center Here Are 8 TV Programs Commemorating 9/11 — and How to Watch Them On 9/11, My Neighborhood Vanished The Firefighters of 9/11 At least half the effort was conducted by self-appointed volunteer workers in hard hats pilfered from huge boxes near GZ.”
“I’ve still got a shred of dignity.” Among all the volunteers, the question always was the same: “How close did you get?” “I got down right on the mound,” George from TriBeCa said.”
“Just rolled it off a truck, and in a half-hour it was operating as the main entrance/exit to Ground Zero, manned by FBI guys checking to make sure you had some legit reason to be down there.”
“It about two o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, September 13th, they put up a chain-link fence across Chambers Street at the West Side Highway, five blocks north of the World Trade Center.”
“25, 2001, issue of Rolling Stone.”
“And no one even mourns for those murders, man.” We both knew that 50,000 was the number of workers inside the WTC when it was operating at capacity.”