Allen773
Graduate Poster
Ernest Armstead, one of the first responders on 9/11 and among the first victims, spoke in a recent interview about where he stands nearly 10 years after the attacks. NY1’s Bobby Cuza filed the following report.
Just days after the attacks on September 11th, Ernest Armstead, a Brooklyn emergency medical technician, described the morning of the attacks to reporters as he sat in his hospital bed at Bellevue.
“My partner says, 'Ernie, look over at Manhattan, it looks like there's a big fire at the World Trade Building,’” said Armstead in the 2001 interview. “I looked over and you could see the One building fully in flames and a lot of smoke coming out.”
Armstead recalled rushing to the scene and helping people who had escaped the twin towers. He also remembered that it was his equipment that shielded him when the South Tower fell.
"It saved my life because whatever hit me, the big pieces of metal, I had it like this, and just, God protected me," said Armstead.
For the past decade, Armstead has held onto the equipment that saved his life. He looks at it often and can recall vividly the details of that day.
"If you felt the amount of heat, you'd know that it would have disintegrated anything,” said Armstead in a recent interview this year.
more:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/special_reports/911_a_decade_later/141201/9-11-a-decade-later--first-responder-recalls-wtc-attacks
Hmm, doesn't sound like a "small fire", does it?