| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 199 pages) : maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Elysian editions." |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; prologue to disaster; map: Lower Manhattan; map: World Trade Center area; 1 the days before; 2 9/09; 3 9/10-9/11; 4 daybreak, 9/11; 5 rush hour; 6 total recall; 7 race to the towers; 8 charging south; 9 lost hero; 10 chelsea piers; 11 purgatory; 12 ground zero; 13 the safe zone; 14 the third tower; 15 dusk, 9/11; 16 forward command center; 17 the land of the free; 18 working for peanuts; 19 in the rear with the gear, 9/12; 20 back to the streets, 9/12, a.m.; 21 back to the streets, 9/12, p.m.; 22 another block party, 9/12; 23 fifteen minutes, 9/12. |
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24 night shift, 9/1325 home front, 9/13-9/14; 26 manhole covers in the sky, 9/14; 27 murray street triage; 28 back to ground zero; 29 critical stress debriefing; 30 social worker; 31 the big party; 32 another collapse; 33 everybody goes to Nino's; 34 thanksgiving; 35 new year's eve; 36 the new year; epilogue; afterword; appendix; glossary; acknowledgements; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
This firsthand account of September 11, written by a paramedic on the scene, chronicles the days before and after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Frank Rella describes the paramedic crew stationed at St. Vincent's Hospital in lower Manhattan, the eerie foreshadowing of the coming disaster, and his encounter with a Middle Eastern man who offered a tarot card reading. Rella details how he and his partner arrived at Ground Zero just as the second tower collapsed and rescued a firefighter who was having a heart attack. The vivid descriptions of turf battles between paramedics and fi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York.
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St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. |
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St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. |
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) |
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Emergency medical technicians -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Emergency medical technicians. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Emergency medical services -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Emergency medical services. |
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Personal narratives.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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| Chronological Term |
2001 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rella, Francis J. Manhattan Medics : The Gripping Story of the Men and Women of Emergency Medical Services Who Make the Streets of the City Their Career. Chicago : Princeton Book Company, ©2003 9780871272607 |
| ISBN |
9780871273703 (electronic book) |
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0871273705 (electronic book) |
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9780871273680 (electronic book) |
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0871273683 (electronic book) |
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087127258X |
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0871272601 |
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9780871272607 |
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