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Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center - Hardcover

Smith, Dennis

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9780670031160: Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center

Synopsis

In a moving tribute to the fallen heroes of September 11, 2001, a former firefighter and best-selling author of Report from Engine Co. 82 provides an eyewitness record of events on the front lines of Ground Zero and the extraordinary efforts of police, fire, and emergency medical teams to rescue victims in the face of unspeakable disaster.

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About the Author

Dennis Smith, the "poet laureate of firefighters" (New York Post), spent 18 years with the New York City Fire Department. The bestselling author of ten books, including Report from Engine Co. 82, he is also the founding editor of Firehouse Magazine.

Reviews

The first-person narratives in this account of the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center constitute a tremendously powerful chronicle of September 11th. The language of the firefighters and police officers is blunt and vivid, the details are sharply etched, and the fractured stories—particularly of those who were inside the towers but somehow escaped—offer a Cubist vision of the day's chaos. The book's description of the disaster's aftermath is less successful: Smith conveys the ritualistic and sacramental nature of the search for the victims' remains, but he lapses too frequently into sentimentality and abstract meditations on patriotism and courage. The author, who also wrote the gripping "Report from Engine Co. 82," does best when he lets the images speak for themselves: the airplane luggage scattered across the plaza; the waves of firemen disappearing into the stairwells; the indelible sound—"like an M-80 firecracker," one man says—of bodies hitting the ground; and the moment when suddenly there was "nothing but dust."
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The dramatic story of the rescue-and-recovery operations at the World Trade Center. Brad Hooper
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