Emergency Call During Crisis

All right, sir, what's the telephone number where you want

FD to pick up?

What's the telephone number

you're calling from?

The Berry Sea.

The Berry Sea.

Four forty-one twenty-six twenty-three.

Four four one...

Twenty-six twenty-three.

Hurry up.

It's on a hundred Fifth

Corner, northwest corner, right?

Right.

At number Two World Trade Center.

Right.

The lady is three of us in this office.

We're not ready to die, but it's getting bad.

I understand, sir. We just-- The first truck is on with the, um,

all the apparatus

here. I'm trying to let them

know where you

are.

Okay, hold on.

Oh, please hurry.

Fire Department, four-oh-eight.

Four-oh-eight-

Four-oh-eight, this is fifteen

ninety-seven.

Let me talk to our TV.

Fifteen ninety-seven.

Let me talk to the caller. Where is he?

He's on the line.

Let me talk to him. Where is this fire, sir?

Uh, we're-

Smoke, really bad. One-oh-five, two Tower.

All right, just tell him we'll get to you as soon as

we can.

Just keep staying up it. The smoke's really bad, man.

It's filling me.

That's all we can do. We, we-- It's-

Where are you? Which floor are you guys up to?

We're getting there. We're getting there.

It doesn't seem like it, man. I got young kids.

I understand that, sir. We're on the way.

He's on a hundred Fifth

Corner, northwest corner.

We all got blocked. We're

operators.

Yeah.

Come on, man.

Okay. We, we have everything, sir. I know you do,

but it doesn't seem like it.

You got, you got lots of people up here. I understand.

And then you go out in the building and we're in up, up on the top.

Smoke rise is just really bad. We're on the floor. We're in a window.

But, ma'am, we have the building breathing down.

Can't see.

Okay.

Just try to hang in there. I'm gonna stay with you.

It's gonna take... Can you just stay here? In a work condition building.

What the hell happened?

Okay, I'm still here. Keep trying. The fire department's trying to get to

you.

It doesn't seem like it.

Okay,

try to calm down, sir. You can conserve your oxygen, okay?

Try to, try to-

It's like God to blow your wind from the list.

It's really bad. It's black. It's arid.

Is anybody else on a tower in here?

We're young men. We're not

ready to die.

I understand.

Mother, hurry and get my ass down. I need oxygen.

They're gonna-- They'll, they'll, they'll send it to you.

They

have a lot of apparatus

on

the scene.

It doesn't seem like it, lady. You get them in from all over.

They're going from Jersey. I

done told you we're in Ohio.

Okay, sir. What's your last

name?

Mine's Cosgrove. I must have called about a dozen times

already.

Cosgrove.

C-O-S-G-R-O-V-E.

Yeah.

My wife thinks I'm all right. I called her and said I

was leaving the building.

I was fine. And then bang.

So they said it's getting back to you.

Well, I want to see. Hold on.

Yeah.

Cherry.

Get back to you, man.

Red Cherry.

Is that right?

Yeah. Red Cherry is next to me.

One-oh-five.

One-oh-five.

John Astro's office.

Whose office?

John Astro.

John Astro's office.

Okay.

That's what you said? That's the office-

We're in John Astro's office.

Okay. O-S-T.

O-S-T.

A-R-U.

A-R-U.

Right.

That's the office we're in. There's three of us in here.

O-S-T-A-R-U.

O-S-T-A-R-U. Two broken windows.

Two broken windows.

Hello?

Hello.

Two broken windows.

We're looking out-- We're looking at financial

center. Two three of us, two broken windows.

Oh, God!