I was actually supposed to be shopping in NY on that day, but due to someone's work schedule changing, we had gone the day before.
I woke up that morning to my friend calling me, crying, telling me to turn on the news. The first plane had just hit. I immediately turned on the tv, hung up on her, and called my father (he's the City of Plainfield Fire Captain.) He was already on his way there. Shortly after that no one was able to get in touch with him. I was so scared, I just wanted to sit by the phone with the news on all day. But I got called in to work because they we so shorthanded with all the people leaving.
When we eventually got in touch with my father he told us that he had been stationed at one of the bridges, thank God. He stayed there that night, then spent the next week or so searching through the rubble and helping in any way he could. Very scary times.
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Date: 2008-09-12 12:09 pm (UTC)I woke up that morning to my friend calling me, crying, telling me to turn on the news. The first plane had just hit. I immediately turned on the tv, hung up on her, and called my father (he's the City of Plainfield Fire Captain.) He was already on his way there. Shortly after that no one was able to get in touch with him. I was so scared, I just wanted to sit by the phone with the news on all day. But I got called in to work because they we so shorthanded with all the people leaving.
When we eventually got in touch with my father he told us that he had been stationed at one of the bridges, thank God. He stayed there that night, then spent the next week or so searching through the rubble and helping in any way he could. Very scary times.