"Light, a flashlight
was the first thing I was able to see after the collapse. A security guard had
flashed it my way. Then like an angel out of a cloud, only this one was a black
cloud, I heard Sergeant Kathryn Negron's voice on my radio. It was music to my
ears. I called out and she answered. Then I found her penlight beaming like a
lighthouse on the storm sea. We had found each other like two ships in the
night."
"But where were
they? The Sergeants couldn't tell. They were completely disorientated. The place
they had entered no longer looked the same. It now resembled a waste-land."
Sgt. Frank Barry's
testimony taken by Author Barbara E. Lang, NYC
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