Jason Read Quotes on Cities (1 Quote)

On the morning of Sept. 11, Read awoke to the sound of his mother's tears. After learning what had happened in New York City, he joined a task force of rescue units that began arriving from New Jersey within a half-hour of when the North Tower was struck. Read reached Liberty State Park, 15 minutes after the first tower collapsed. At the scene, rescue crews created a staging area and field hospital with other units. The group included 250 ambulances, 100 surgeons, 50 paramedics, 50 nurses and 350 emergency medical technicians. It was an impressive staging area, ... We had everything we needed. Organization just sort of happened.