The Lives They Saved
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The Lives They Saved

The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners and the Incredible Boatlift that Evacuated Nearly 300,000 People on 9/11

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The Lives They Saved

The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners and the Incredible Boatlift that Evacuated Nearly 300,000 People on 9/11

About this book

The Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11…by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or told. It includes hundreds of oral histories and many photographs of this high drama, set against the terrifying backdrop of the day when the Earth stood still, every airport in the U.S. was closed down, and Manhattan was seized by gridlock.

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For perspective, the boatlift that saved Britain’s expeditionary force from the beaches of Dunkirk removed approximately the same number of people: 300,000.

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Information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781493048113
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Chapter 1: September 12, 2001 The Day After
  3. Chapter 2: September 10, 2001 The Night Before
  4. Chapter 3: “There should be a law against working on such a beautiful day.” 7:45 a.m.
  5. Chapter 4: “Lower Manhattan is really MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) City.” 8:30 a.m.
  6. Chapter 5: “We had a view of the World Trade Center.” 8:45 a.m.
  7. Chapter 6: “Eric, look at that! Look how low that plane is.” 8:46 a.m.
  8. Chapter 7: “We noticed smoke coming off the first building.” 8:47 a.m.
  9. Chapter 8: “We are gearing up, psychologically, for a major MCI.” 8:49 a.m.
  10. Chapter 9: “I wanted to surround the lower tip of Manhattan, and the Battery Park area, with fireboats.” 8:54 a.m.
  11. Chapter 10: “There were people running everywhere.” 8:55 a.m.
  12. Chapter 11: “There were bodies strewn all over West Side Highway …” 8:59 a.m.
  13. Chapter 12: “I knew right away we couldn’t put the fire out.” 9:00 a.m.
  14. Chapter 13: “With the second plane in, I knew this was no accident.” 9:02 a.m.
  15. Chapter 14: “People were streaming out toward the ferry.” 9:04 a.m.
  16. Chapter 15: “You have to evacuate the injured …” 9:07 a.m.
  17. Chapter 16: “Thousands of people were running toward the water.” 9:09 a.m.
  18. Chapter 17: “Improvise.” 9.12 a.m.
  19. Chapter 18: “That shuts down New York Harbor.” 9:15 a.m.
  20. Chapter 19: “It just looked like too much, high-rise towers, free burning like that.” 9:19 a.m.
  21. Chapter 20: “The tower might come down in the harbor” 9:21 a.m.
  22. Chapter 21: “That’s your evacuation plan—everybody goes south.” 9:41 a.m.
  23. Chapter 22: “All of a sudden, you hear boom, boom, boom.” 10:00 a.m.
  24. Chapter 23: “It looked exactly like an avalanche coming down the street.” 10:02 a.m.
  25. Chapter 24: “People kept coming down to the seawall just looking to get away.” 10:12 a.m.
  26. Chapter 25: “We had steel beams all around us.” 10:22 a.m.
  27. Chapter 26: “The group started jumping over the wall into the boat.” 10:24 a.m.
  28. Chapter 27: “[It was] a lot of chaos, a lot of people running around, a lot of screaming, a lot of people asking for help.” 10:26 a.m.
  29. Chapter 28: “The building was a quarter-mile high, and we were way too close.” 10:28 a.m.
  30. Chapter 29: “They give us water and comfort.” 10:35 a.m.
  31. Chapter 30: “The only way out [for the injured] was by boat.” 10:41 a.m.
  32. Chapter 31: “We started putting the women and children on boats to get them over to New Jersey.” 11:00 a.m.
  33. Chapter 32: “There are twenty-seven to thirty tugboats sitting there.” 11:05 a.m.
  34. Chapter 33: “Get the hell out of the city.” 11:10 a.m.
  35. Chapter 34: “Just like the Titanic.” 11:15 a.m.
  36. Chapter 35: “We have no communications with the outside world.” 11:25 a.m.
  37. Chapter 36: “We had to get back in the game.” 11:30 a.m.
  38. Chapter 37: “Everybody seemed to be migrating down toward the water zone.” 11:50 a.m.
  39. Chapter 38: “Every vessel in the harbor was moving.” 11:59 a.m.
  40. Chapter 39: “We know evil.” 12:00 p.m.
  41. Chapter 40: “I felt like I was on a landing craft going into the beach at Normandy.” 12:05 p.m.
  42. Chapter 41: “No one was talking.” Afternoon
  43. Chapter 42: “By 12:30 p.m., we had established a water supply.” Afternoon
  44. Chapter 43: The Last Ship Night
  45. Epilogue: A Peanut Butter Sandwich
  46. The Numbers
  47. Notes
  48. About the Author