FE Volume 155 Issue 9

This issue contains part one of Fire Engineering‘s comprehensive look at fire operations during the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Read part two.

WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER: INITIAL RESPONSE

FIRST CHIEF ON THE SCENE

NORTH TOWER COMMAND

FIRE DISPATCH OPERATIONS

REPORT FROM THE CHIEF OF OPERATIONS

POSTCOLLAPSE COMMAND

“Field Trip to Hell”: A Survivor’s Story

OPERATIONS COMMAND

DIVISION 6 OPERATIONS

POSTCOLLAPSE: WEST STREET SECTOR OPERATIONS

BELOW-GRADE SEARCH

POSTCOLLAPSE: LIBERTY STREET SECTOR OPERATIONS

SPECIAL OPERATIONS AND HAZ MAT

Anonymous Letter

ENGINE 9: SURVIVAL STORY

LADDER 6: RESCUE OF THE RESCUERS

The Search for Ladder 6

JERSEY CITY WATERFRONT TRIAGE

FDNY EMS RESPONSE

OTHER JERSEY CITY OPERATIONS

BODY RETRIEVAL

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.