A completely normally day. I sit and watch TV and drink a cup of coffee. I lean back in my chair. My wife comes with some biscuits, which I always dip into my coffee. Sitting and thinking about how they are at the fire station. I am now retired fire chief. So I left my station for a new fire chief. I do not like the idea, I could easily work for several years yet. But now I had to take a break after 20 years in this industry, and the wife would also like to have me home. So I would probably rather listen to her. Women can really be very strict. But as I sit and watch TV, I can see that there are breaking news, I turned up the TV higher, I sat listening to my own boys, they say that there is an aircraft that has flown straight into the one of the twin towers. I fly out of my chair and stare out the window, I can see smoke at the other end of town, I yell to my wife that she should find my old clothes, instantly! She asks why. I suggest just the TV and I can see the fear in her eyes, because she knew perfectly well what I meant now. She looked imploringly at me, but I cannot just let my boys stuck with it all alone, so I would prefer a few more hands. I rush into the bedroom and take my shirt on. On the back there stands New York's Fire Department. I tear my boots on and I never made it further than to shout that I’ll be home when everything is all right again. My wife stands at the window and looks after me. I have never driven fast, always respected rules of the road, but today I drove fast, very fast! Cause if the tower collapses, there was no hope longer for the thousands of people in the tower. It takes me only fifteen minutes to get to the station and even less time to find my equipment, I do not look at someone of the boys, but I manage to shout that I take over and that everyone listens to me from now on, you could see hope in the fire men's eyes. They know me, and I've only been away for a few months, I talked to the new fire chief, and I could feel that he was happy that I came, now there wasn’t only 10 firefighters anymore, no, now a hundreds of them stood at the station, they all showed up to help. I gave them instructions that now they had to save many lives and noting else. I rushed out in one of the fire engines and put on emergency lamps, people made room for us, the people who ran, ran until the page so that we could have helped the people who were still inside the tower. We came to the tower, and I could see people crying, people who needed help, things still fall down after the collision. I went into the tower, which is completely dark. All power must have gone, I get one of my boys to check the elevators. Because there may still be someone in them. I looked up. I could not see very far up. I could hear a lot of garbage falling down, and even more screams. All my hair stood up on my body, because now I knew what happened. The tower collapsed, I ran out but where stopped by a human, fly straight down in front of me. I looked up, I could see even more smoke. The second tower has also been hit. Now I began slowly to believe that this was a dream. But no, the tower has been hit. I get half of my men into the other tower to help, now it’s all fast, since there is no more time left before this tower collapses, for there was a decent jerk, as the second tower was hit . This one day is really a horror day. My heart beats faster, I had to get my own out, it doesn`t matter to me, I am old, the others have a whole life ahead of them. I was not a fireman to sit in an office, but to put my own life at risk to save others. I am in my element, and now I get all the others to understand that it’s not a bed of roses to be firefighters, but they all perform better than expected, we have some volunteers that also helps. It is fantastic to see so much help. You can see the stairs that people help carry the wounded down. I hurry up and help, it all starts to become so chaotic, you can hear the thud outside, and I know why, those who couldn’t come down has started to jump from the windows, I started to believe that I couldn’t help them. Now it all starts to shake, it's worse than a normal earthquake, now I know that everything must go fast, I run away and take a child who had been with her mother at work, the mother follows, the girl cries a great deal, but children and women first, and in this case I take the child. I hurry and can just hear that now the tower has collapsed, I just ran to get the child, the mother and myself behind a car and I put myself on top of them so they do not get hit by something, then it Everything is starting to get quiet two or three minutes after. I explain to them that they must hurry away, for now there is not much time until second tower collapses.
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