Emergency Call During Crisis

All right, so what's the telephone number where you

want us to pick up?

What's the telephone number you're calling from?

The WFC.

You can go-

Four forty-one twenty-six twenty-three.

Four four nine...

Twenty-six twenty-three.

Okay.

Hurry up.

We're going a hundred Fifth Floor in the northwest corner, right?

Right.

At number two World Trade Center.

Right.

Lady, there's two of us in this office.

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

I

understand,

sir. We just need to know exactly where-

We got people out here that-

Sir, all the operators here are trying to let them know where you are.

The smoke's really bad. One oh five, keep high.

All right, stick tight. We'll get to you as soon as we can.

Lady, just stay up if the smoke's really bad, man.

Just believe me.

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

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

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

This is here, like your man, I got young kids.

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

He's on the hundred fifth floor on the

northwest corner.

We on that level.

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 want you to stay on.

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

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

My brother, we have to go breathe now. Can't see.

Okay.

Just try to hang in there. I have to stay with you.

I can't see anything, so you're gonna make a decision, building.

What the hell happened?

Okay, I'm still here. I'm still trying-- the fire department's trying to get to

you.

We're gonna

feel like

it...

Okay,

try to calm down so you can conserve your oxygen, okay?

Try to, try to-

Tell God to blow the wind from the west.

It's really bad. It's black, it's ash.

Has anybody else had a trial run here?

We're young men. We're not ready to die.

I

understand.

By the heat, get my ass down. I need

oxygen.

We're gonna-- We're, we're, we're coming to you.

We have a lot of apparatus on the scene.

It doesn't feel like it, lady. You gotta move from all over.

We're going from Jersey. I don't

give a zero how I...

Okay, what was 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.

Very sorry to hear that.

Okay.

And I'm not clear. It's-

Locators.

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.

It's John Astrid's office.

Whose office?

John Astrid.

John Astrid's office.

Okay.

That's what you said? That's the office you're in?

We're in John Astrid's office.

What's that? 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.

Breaking window. Two

breaking windows.

Hello?

Hello.

Look at all the windows.

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

center. Two three of us, two breaking windows.

Oh, God!