Did you think in your head that they would come down just being that close to the towers? Like, or were you, you did no idea.

You know, we lost the best of the best that day from the poor white PD, the FDNY, uh, Nobody thought those buildings were coming down.

The people we lost were standing right at the base of them that were experts.

It's just something I never thought about.

The only goal I think every rescue worker was to get people home that day.

End of story.

And as we ran, I share this with children.

What were your injuries or did you even know?

[people screaming]

We started walking down the hallway away from Tower Two, and we were halfway down that hallway when Sergeant McLoughlin stopped us 'cause he had to, uh, talk to some firefighters and an EMT that was walking past us, informing them, and that's when I heard a humongous boom from above.

Uh, it was immense.

So I turned around and looked into the lobby of Two, where we were just coming from, and I saw a, a fireball the size of my house, and I didn't know what to do.

I was just standing there holding my helmet.

It felt like an earthquake.

I looked up, and everything was shaking.

And for me, it's that kind of smell, and it takes me back to 9/11.

And if these towers go down, how many people could perish? And in that car, at that moment, the South Tower fell.

And we started walking down the hallway away from Tower 2, and we were halfway down that hallway when Sergeant Blocking stopped us because he had to talk to some firefighters and EMT that was walking past us informing them.

And that's when I heard a humongous boom from above.

It was immense.

So I turned around and looked into the lobby of 2 where we were just coming from, and I saw a fireball the size of my house.

And I didn't know what to do.

I was just standing there, holding my helmet.

And it takes me back to 9-11.

All right.

When I could finally see, all I saw was Howard Berry in concrete.

But it was all very sad, and I'll never get those images out of my head, nor do I want to, because these were people's lives that were taken for no reason

my sergeant was the last man pulled out from underneath he came out at 7 a.m the next morning will jimeno and it's a miracle that we're here you know but it's a testament to the american spirit the human spirit uh you know that the terrorists as i referred to was the cowards they didn't win they was brought us as americans us as human beings closer together so As a survivor, I'm very proud to be an example of someone that can overcome any obstacle, especially the obstacles that were set before me and my sergeant, which was death, and we were able to beat it.

All right.

When I could finally see, all I saw was Howard Berry in concrete.

But it was all very sad, and I'll never get those images out of my head, nor do I want to, because these were people's lives that were taken for no reason

my sergeant was the last man pulled out from underneath he came out at 7 a.m the next morning will jimeno and it's a miracle that we're here you know but it's a testament to the american spirit the human spirit uh you know that the terrorists as i referred to was the cowards they didn't win they was brought us as americans us as human beings closer together so As a survivor, I'm very proud to be an example of someone that can overcome any obstacle, especially the obstacles that were set before me and my sergeant, which was death, and we were able to beat it.

Right.

But I saw the whole intersection of 42nd and Eighth go dark for a second, which I later found out was the flight coming over.

And then they called us back to the police desk, which doesn't happen during the rush in the mornings and the afternoons.

So many people, and we're strategically placed to make sure people are safe, people have information, if someone has a medical emergency.

So they all called us all back.

We went back to the police desk, um, went back into what's our reserve room, our break room, and we looked at the TV set, and it was New York 1, and it was a big, gaping hole in Tower 1.

And right away, the sergeant that had seen, Sergeant Ross, who had seen the plane said, "Those are terrorists." And one of the things that's-

Right.