Manhattan Medics

The Gripping Story of the Men and Women of Emergency Medical Services Who Make the Streets of the City Their Career

By NREMT-P, Francis J. Rella

Publishers 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 fire department personnel at Ground Zero and elsewhere will arouse controversy and interest.

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ISBN
978-0-87127-260-7
Publisher
Princeton Book Company


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Reviewed on October 1, 2003

This account grew out of Rella's experiences as an emergency medical technician at the World Trade Center site on 9/11. He focuses on the chaotic events of the day, offering glimpses of the critical, often life-threatening, 24/7 first-response calls taken by the paramedics of New York City'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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