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<blockquote data-quote="VorpalBunny" data-source="post: 331722" data-attributes="member: 4772"><p>9/11 was the day that made me hope I never have to experience anything like it again. I work in a NYC hospital between 5 and 10 miles (in a straight line) from "ground zero". I didn't have to be at work until 11:00 AM, so I dropped my daughter off at day-care around 8:45 and drove back home. On the way back, I heard on the radio that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I remember the "personality" I was listening to say "It was bound to happen will all the civilian air traffic around Manhattan... stupid drunk pilot".</p><p></p><p>I got home and turned on the TV to see what was happening. I couldn't believe my eyes. I saw a gaping hole in the north tower, then I saw the second plane hit and the south tower explode. I immediately called my mom to let her know what was happening - she retired from a brokerage firm located on the 85th floor of tower 2. Her firm would end up losing thirty people. </p><p></p><p>I put on my scrubs and headed into work 2 hours early. All hospitals in NYC and the surrounding areas were put on disaster alert. My hospital was set for a "code major" - a major disaster with greater than 50 people injured. I got into work to see that stretchers and gurneys were lined up along the walls in the hallways ready for patients. Our ambulances were heading into the city with physicians to assist. A minor league baseball field close to us was set up as a makeshift morgue. I remember someone saying "A plane crashed into the Pentagon, and another crashed in Pa.". I remember wondering what was happening? Who is doing this to us?</p><p></p><p>People had started showing up to give blood. The hospital's trauma team was waiting on the ambulance bay outside for any causalties that came our way. I was screening and taking the vital signs of prospective blood donors. During a lull, I'd run to a TV or to the top floors to try and see what was going on.</p><p></p><p>The most horrible thing about the whole day? Knowing that we weren't going to see many casualties after watching the towers collapse. My hospital received around <em>five</em> patients from the attacks. Our sister hospital in Manhattan got around a hundred.</p><p></p><p>(<em>edited for grammar and syntax</em>)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VorpalBunny, post: 331722, member: 4772"] 9/11 was the day that made me hope I never have to experience anything like it again. I work in a NYC hospital between 5 and 10 miles (in a straight line) from "ground zero". I didn't have to be at work until 11:00 AM, so I dropped my daughter off at day-care around 8:45 and drove back home. On the way back, I heard on the radio that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I remember the "personality" I was listening to say "It was bound to happen will all the civilian air traffic around Manhattan... stupid drunk pilot". I got home and turned on the TV to see what was happening. I couldn't believe my eyes. I saw a gaping hole in the north tower, then I saw the second plane hit and the south tower explode. I immediately called my mom to let her know what was happening - she retired from a brokerage firm located on the 85th floor of tower 2. Her firm would end up losing thirty people. I put on my scrubs and headed into work 2 hours early. All hospitals in NYC and the surrounding areas were put on disaster alert. My hospital was set for a "code major" - a major disaster with greater than 50 people injured. I got into work to see that stretchers and gurneys were lined up along the walls in the hallways ready for patients. Our ambulances were heading into the city with physicians to assist. A minor league baseball field close to us was set up as a makeshift morgue. I remember someone saying "A plane crashed into the Pentagon, and another crashed in Pa.". I remember wondering what was happening? Who is doing this to us? People had started showing up to give blood. The hospital's trauma team was waiting on the ambulance bay outside for any causalties that came our way. I was screening and taking the vital signs of prospective blood donors. During a lull, I'd run to a TV or to the top floors to try and see what was going on. The most horrible thing about the whole day? Knowing that we weren't going to see many casualties after watching the towers collapse. My hospital received around [i]five[/i] patients from the attacks. Our sister hospital in Manhattan got around a hundred. ([i]edited for grammar and syntax[/i]) [/QUOTE]
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