September 11th, two planes crash into the Twin Towers in New York, and one into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The four days following the 9/11 attack the stock market closed down, causing the Dow to drop almost 600 points. This significant drop caused a small recession which eventually led to an even bigger drop because of the treat of war. I am reading the book The Firehouse by David Halberstam, it is based on engine 40, ladder 35. This specific station was based in the upper east side, New York, they were one of the stations to respond to the 9/11 attacks, thirteen out of fourteen of the men who worked at that station died. The days before the attack the men have no idea of the war going on in the Persian Gulf, they were very surprised when they saw on the news the World Trade Center had been hit. At first none of the firefighters though the news was real they all thought that it was fake, until the second plane hit. Then they were called to the scene of the fire, right when they arrived they knew it was going to be a very long fight. In my book it reads "At this point, Shea put on his gear and he took his video camera with him. His account remains the only record of what happened on either the Truck's or the Engine's ride down, because he was the only survivor of the thirteen men who went out from 40/35; his account is fragmentary because of the injuries, both physical and emotional." Based on this quote, the firefighters who were going into the attack had little to no idea on exactly what they were getting into when they went to fight the fire. In the article I read Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon and it said "The timing was murderous for the armada of rescue vehicles that gathered after the planes crashed, and were caught under the collapsing buildings. Many rescue workers were reported killed or injured" This shows that many firefighters fought hard but they weren't in the greatest conditions to totally put out the fire. In conclusion, based on the book The Firehouse and Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon the 9/11 attack came to a surprise to everyone in the world and it was a very hard time for the people effected and the service workers fighting it.
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Rainey
4/27/2017 03:04:33 pm
Your book sounds very interesting!
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