Billy Garrett, Superintendent, Gateway Recreation Area, Jamaica Bay Unit
"…well, for weeks, I mean, you saw a plume of smoke and a gap. … I could look at the skyline, and I could visualize that the towers had been there. … I've used the analogy of a tooth that's missing, you know, you knew it was supposed to be there. I mean, your mind was used to the pattern of that line on the skyline, so -- …"

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Todd Rosenhaus, Park Ranger and EMS Coordinator, Gateway Recreation Area, Jamaica Bay Unit
"So as we're coming around, we're all just looking. And it's like -- nothing. It's like just one big dust ball. You couldn't see any, you couldn't see past it. I got past a certain angle and all I saw left was maybe six stories of the outer shell of the Trade Center, just burning, glowing red, and just -- never again, you know, hope I never saw it again"

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Shirley McKinney, Superintendent, Gateway National Recreation Area, Staten Island Unit
"Right. I was on call and you just didn't know. You've never been in this situation before, so you don't have a protocol in place. We have one now. We didn't at the time have a protocol in place for this type of tragedy. And so we were kind of dealing with it as issues came, you know, came up."

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David Luchsinger, Business Manager, Gateway National Recreation Area, Sandy Hook Unit
"And it was the most eerie looking thing I've ever seen in my life. There was a red to orange to dark black cloud, glow in the background. And then all of the buildings of downtown were pitch black. And it kind of reminded me of one of those Mad Max movies where, you know, they are flying over the city and it's all bombed out. And we were actually looking at Manhattan."

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