Cries for Help Edited Out of 9/11 Tapes

[tocqueville]

By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer
9 minutes ago

NEW YORK - City 911 operators caught up in the chaos of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks offered calm compassion but little help to callers trapped in the doomed World Trade Center, partial transcripts of several calls released Friday show.

"The Fire Department, EMS, is crawling all over the place," a fire department operator assures a caller who is trapped with more than 100 people the 106th floor. "They're trying to help everybody as much as they can, OK?"

The call came in at 9:10 a.m, seven minutes after the second plane hit. The tower collapsed 49 minutes later.

The words of the operators — but not the callers — were released after The New York Times and a group of victims' relatives sued to get them. An appeals court ruled last year that families should have the option to release the tapes made by 28 callers who could be identified.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20060331/ap_on_re_us/attacks911_calls_20

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Could you print the relevent portions here?

Thanks

[Heddi]

2. why not just read the article?

Seems simple enough....

[Nikki Stone1]

3. Very slow dialup--but feel free to be judgmental

:)

[tocqueville]

6. if I paste other parts I think I'll break the copyright rules

or else it would be easy to paste the whole article 4 paragraphs at the time in several posts

[lonestarnot]

4. Poor things.

[Xing Daorong]

5. :(

God I will never forget that day, I only live 30 miles from New York, and I saw the jumper videos yesterday. Just the ruthless and terrible shit people can do to their fellow man is astounding, I don't know what to think about cries for help being edited out, but after watching those videos, I can't say that it wasn't for the best.

(btw I'm new here guys, came here to see things from another point of view, I'll be around for awhile i guess :) )