Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Local 94 Operating Engineers In Memory of: Local 94's HEROS Charlie McGee John Griffin Jr Dave Williams Veto DeLeo I worked with Charlie McGee for seven years, he was a great co worker and a great friend.I didn't know the other guys too well, but the stories I heard about what these four men went through on that day was simply "HEROIC". OUR STORY My self and part of the crew were trapped in the lobby of 7 wtc when the 1st tower collapsed. We had no idea that a plane let alone two planes had crashed into the towers. We knew there were explosions but we had made it through the 93 blast so we thought it was the same thing, just bigger. We had already assisted in evacuating the building, Thank god every body started evacuating on there own, and then we made the final evacuation announcement on the PA system and like I said all got out safe, the crew and myself stayed to man the building because of all the important equipment running, not knowing we were In any danger (again because of our experience with the 93 blast) and then it got dark and this tremendous screeching, thundering, and Rumbling started!!!And all I can see was the face of one of the crew who happened to being looking out the window of the lobby when this all started. For about 2 minutes I thought we were all going to DIE! We ran behind a wall laid on the floor and covered our heads and Prayed. I tell you it sounded like a missile and an earthquake was coming right at us at the same time. Well thank god it was neither. Well this eventually passed and we did not die. Now we all get up, look at each other, which was kind of difficult because of all the smoke, darkness and dust. We all panicked but we kept our heads, we were scrambling to get out of the building. Half of them went out thru the rumbled lobby, which they have a story of there own. Three others and myself went up one floor because we could not breathe and we knew exactly where the fire exits were on that floor which happen ed to be the Cafeteria. We went to one exit and there was no handle and the door was locked. We ran across the floor to the other side where the kitchen was, opened that door and smoke just poured out of the staircase so we closed that door. Now were running back to the other side of the floor to look out the window too see what was going on and that was useless, all you can see is all this smoke and dust. Now we are starting to get panicky and all we keep saying is we don't want to die!! We just made the decision to run out the smoke filled staircase, we wrapped our faces with wet towels and made a mad dash to the Street. We flew down the stairs literally. When we got out we went about a block behind the building, we all met up and started hugging and I mean hugging and happy to see each other. A few minutes go by and all of a sudden the floor starts shaking and you hear this rumbling and thundering again. We just took off running as fast as we can holding our heads again, but I had to look over my shoulder too see what was happening, I tell you it looked like the devil was coming, a big ball of smoke with huge hands and debris flying everywhere. Well we made it and I just had to share this story. The Crew: Mike Catalano Ron Friedman Joe Gregori Vinny Lanzetta Billy Rogers Roy Fischetto Larry Galladay Frank Farrugia Doug Popola Ron Galeota Steve Brady Mike Enders Andre Bien-aime Doug Mazzone P.S. I have a tribute that can be downloaded from a web site if you are interested its free. Also you can read this story and see some photos from 9/11 go to: www.catman98.com Please sign in. E-Mail: mcatalan@optonline.net Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story237.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.186.100.235 Annotation Annotations to this item. Personal connection to someone at site Victims WTC, attack WTC, pre-911 WTC, worked in (ever) NY:1 Feature