9/11 Fire Dispatch Recordings

De: New York City Fire Department

In August 2005, the New York City Fire Department released approximately 23 hours of radio dispatch audio recordings from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This came after The New York Times, along with eight 9/11 families, sued to win public dissemination of the transmissions, as well as hundreds and hundreds of pages of transcribed oral histories.

As a public service, Audible has selected nearly three hours of key, unedited transmissions by Manhattan Fire Radio. Fire Department dispatchers and firefighters in the field are heard describing the planes hitting the World Trade Center (included in Track 1), the collapse of the first tower (Track 2), and the collapse of the second tower (Track 3). These transmissions begin around 8:46 a.m. Eastern time and end at around 10:22 a.m.

©2005 New York City Fire Department (P)2005 Audible, Inc.

Wow! .... Riveting!

Voices of those dedicated Fire Fighters from that tragic September day - before and after, the unimaginable happened.........

Excellent!!

Haunting to listen to. As a EMS provider I can only imagine their thoughts that day. I was coming home when it happened then like many Americans watched all day. Excellent listen!!

cool under fire

What can one say? These are the Fire Dispatch recordings from 9/11. As a unique look into how the NY Fire Dispatch operated on the worst day in recent American history, it is amazing. Cool heads prevailed, and kept things going.

Like listening to a police scanner

I got this mainly for its historical context of one of our country's greatest tragedies. It is basically what the title says, so you can hear the dispatchers communicating with the rescue workers on 9-11.
I can't say it was a good listen, but more of a trip back to that fateful day. I think it's good they made records of the events like these as it may be used as a teaching tool for future dispatchers and rescue workers to listen to what happened that day.

911 fire dispatch review

horrible way to end...why cut out just when it was getting good? play all!

Breath Taking

Such amazing professionals. They saw the danger and ran towards it. We all owe them thank yous for the incredible job they did.

screw a headline

it could of haved a little more narration. other than that it was very informative.

and then what happened?

A breathtaking listen. The Manhatten dispatcher was truly amazing. Hate how the transmissions were completely cut off at the end, leaving us stranded wondering what happened to the captain trapped in the rubble. I wanted to hear more.

Historic

Interesting account of Heroism, but it is difficult to understand what is being said at times due to the method of recording.

Tough to listen to... emotional

Been waiting to listen to this. Still difficult. 333 and still counting all of these years later