9-11 Responders Show Their True Valor A supplement by the editors of & JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES MAGAZINE Copyright 2002 by PennWell Corporation Contents 9 EMS Untold: The World Trade Center Disaster The first 24 hours of EMS response on Sept. 11 By Lisa Dionne 10 Fire Personnel in Memoriam A remembrance of firefighters lost in the line of duty 26 Live to Tell 25 eyewitness accounts of the Sept. 11 EMS response Interviews by Lisa Dionne & A.J. Heightman 27 Glenn Asaeda, MD, FDNY EMS 27 Jennifer Beckham, Flushing Medical Center 28 Scott Beloten, Maimonides Hospital Ambulance Dept. 32 Rene Davila, FDNY EMS 36 Jack Delaney, New York Presbyterian Hospital 38 Tamara Drummond, NYU Downtown Hospital EMS Dept. 39 Louis Garcia, St. Vincent’s Manhattan 40 Zachary Goldfarb, FDNY EMS 46 Jerry Z. Gombo, FDNY EMS 49 Cosmo Jackson, MetroCare Ambulance 50 Al Kim, MetroCare Ambulance 50 Walter Kowalczyk, FDNY EMS 53 Juana Lomi, NYU Downtown Hospital EMS Dept. 55 Alexander Loutsky, FDNY EMS 57 Orlando Martinez, FDNY EMS 59 Robert A. McCracken, FDNY EMS 63 Amy Monroe, FDNY EMS 64 Jonathan Moritz, FDNY EMS 65 Ernestina Nyquist, St. Vincent’s Manhattan 66 Janice Olszewski, FDNY EMS 67 John Peruggia, FDNY 57 Frank Puma, FDNY EMS 69 Ben Shelton, St. Vincent’s Manhattan 69 Charlie Wells, FDNY EMS 71 Robert Wick, Flushing Hospital Medical Center 72 EMS Personnel in Memoriam Those who made the ultimate sacrifice, not for family or friends, but for strangers By Keri Losavio Unsung Heroes 74 Responders who tended their home fronts kept the New York 9-1-1 system running smoothly By Blaine Dionne After the Fall 76 How local, state & federal responders searched for survivors amid the rubble By Nancy J. Rigg About the Cover From the Ashes Top: FDNY EMT Moussa Diaz renders care to a severely 82 burned female patient on Sept. 11 near the World Trade Center complex. FDNY resurrects its apparatus fleet Photo Jennifer S. Altman By Bob Vaccaro Bottom: After the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, an FDNY engine transports an extra complement of firefighters to Ground Zero. A Little Help from Friends Photo Willie Cirone 89 Emergency manufacturers donate money, This Page equipment & apparatus to New York agencies Ground Troops: FDNY firefighters prepare for fire battle By Jeff Berend following the World Trade Center collapses. Photo Doug Kanter Testaments 96 Reflections on Sept. 11, plus stories of hope Complete Rescue System The JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES MAGAZINE PUBLISHER EMERITUS SKED-EVAC JAMES O. PAGE TRIPOD PUBLISHER/GENERAL MANAGER Jeff Berend AND [email protected] EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Lisa Dionne SKEDCO 4:1 [email protected] EDITOR A.J. 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