I’ve actually been wondering about that the last couple of years. It was just a passing thought that I never remembered to look up after watching one of these videos. I just started wondering if the fuel would be being donated. Thank you for giving me the answer I always meant to ask!
False..the Coast Guard is part of Federal..it was all NYers taxes that paid for fuel and more..smh! All to big up new jersey when ny always pays for more than ny..federal taxes goes to red states like Texas Florida pays for their hurricanes highways storms emergencies..so stop capping
Captain of Amberjack V, Vincent R. Ardolino, passed away on August 25th, 2018. Thanks to this documentary, your actions will not be forgotten. RIP Unsung Hero.
I recall a man, an Aussie I believe, who was on a business trip at a hotel near ground zero. He decided he would get on a boat, land wherever he landed and then find a church and approach as a christian who needed help. Instead, he met someone on the boat who brought him home and put him up. A million acts of kindness for each evil act.
@@Amandaarford83 I am reminded too of natural disasters and how amazing people can be. In '94, the Northridge quake occurred 3 weeks after my 75 year old mom had knee replacement surgery. She and the bed were thrown up, the bed landed first then she landed, bounced off and hit the floor. My Aunt in MA was working at a church when she heard about the quake, turned on the tv and saw our corner on fire (our house survived). She was frantic and long story short, her colleague contacted a relative, an orthopedic surgeon a hundred miles south of us. Hours later when we finally got in touch, a complete stranger offered to drive up with food and water for my bros staying with the house and bring back my mom and I to stay, in THEIR HOME and he would personally check her knee. We didn't need to accept, but I was stunned by the offer and just the behavior of most people in general. Like the convenience store across the street that handed out supplies to regulars with or without money. Rich or poor, black or white, when the earth shakes, the fire's come or the tornado hits or the bomb's drop, we are all universally vulnerable and aware of our vulnerability and I think most decent people immediately want to reach out and help in any way.
I watched that video and I always think of it when thinking of 9/11. I believe the woman was from Staten Island who took him home and they continued to be in contact over the years and he had a least one reunion with her and her family. Such a heartwarming story and he was continually choked up thinking of the kindness she shared that awful day.
@@copperbuttons7376 Yes, it was a woman on Staten Island. Was he the same man who had two close relatives, I think his sister and his niece on the second plane which he heard hit as people were pouring into his hotel injured from the first plane?
@@pat2562 I don’t recall anything about his sister or niece being on the second plane. I do recall him talking about coming out of his hotel or an office building during or after a work meeting and seeing people fall or jump out of the towers after being hit. I got the impression he was the only one of his family in the US at the time and only being in the US for work.
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863 I’m looking at a picture now. His office was obliterated. Fortunately for him, he’d gone to another office where they were watching the information coming in from New York not yet knowing what was about to happen. It saved his life. We grew up in southwest Louisiana on a dead end street with a bayou at the end. A family with only one house between us lost their nephew at the Pentagon that day. The randomness of a small town in Louisiana has always struck me. One survived and one didn’t.
Boats, docks, port authority, Coast Guard, CCTV on buildings. On 9/11, a professional film crew was documenting NY fire houses. They ended up in the buildings lobby with the firemen, and recording the sounds of jumpers, and the collapse. It's footage that is completely heartbreaking.
I wish they would react to that video. There are two versions of that one, with one being full account and the other being brief. Both are good to watch for them to get the depth. I saw the towers fall from my rooftop in Brooklyn. When I saw the cloud coming, I ran down to my apartment to close the windows. I lived on the 6th floor, top floor of my building. I wish everyone would know what and how it happened. We all lost people from 9/11.
They also got footage of the first plane hitting the first tower because they were out on a smell of gas call down the street from the towers when it happened. They were one of the first ones in the building & were in that lobby when the second tower was hit & still in that lobby when the second tower fell. They definitely should react to it.
Within 24 hours hordes of people were headed to New York with food, water, dog food (it was televised that the dogs were searching) bedding, food money whatever was needed was sent immediately
I cry every single time I watch this video when they make the call for all available boats to report to governors island! These people dropped every thing and took a risk not knowing what was going to happen to just go help without a concern for themselves. God I love my country!
you have finally answered something i've wondered for the few years i've known about this video, I never could make out what the island name was when they say it, now I know, Thank you
As a native New Yorker who was overseas on 9/11 and who lost a family member when the first tower fell, I never learned about the boat lift until I began watching reactions on UA-cam. So many people died that day but many more died years later due to cancer from the ash from the buildings. Many of the people who are in this video covered in ash are no longer alive.
Canadian here. I learned a lot about what happened on that day but like you have never known about the boat lift until today. I remember clearly where I was at that time(at work) and being informed to what had happened.Horrific day! so sorry for the loss of your family member.
@@dianesheard9309 Have you watched the video yellow ribbon. As a Canadian I remember the TV and radio stations talking about the air space being shut down and all the planes that were being diverted to Canada and I wondered how they could land hundreds of planes not meant to come to Canada. I also said a prayer that none of the planes landing in Canada had terrorists on them too.
This happened in one of the biggest communication news network cites in the world and it’s also the largest location for freelance journalists and photographers. This is why you are not only seeing a lot of footage during a time there were no cell phones but high quality too. The photographers and journalists were on those boats saving themselves while documenting one of the most important rescues in human history.
I'd say unfortunately most Americans don't even know the story of these true heroes. Captain Vincent Ardolino of the Amber Jack V(the first man who spoke in the video)died in 2018. I don't know the cause of death but it's a real probability that he died as a result of exposure to the dust and smoke. To this day people are dying as a result of medical and psychological effects of that day. This video no matter how many times that I've seen it makes me tear up. This was the perfect opportunity to riot, loot, etc. It simply didn't happen. As he said everyone helped everyone. I think a lot of it was security csmeras on the dock, boats, etc. New York had a lot surveillance cameras before 9/11. Now from what I understand NYC is nw second in the world for surveillance cameras right behind London. Another example of a hero is Richard Cyril Rescorla. He was a British American who was the Vice President of Security for Morgan Stanley in the South Tower of the WTC. He previously served in the British Army and later the US Army in combat roles. He had even designed an evacuation plan for the building believing this type of attack was a real world possibility. He's accredited with leading thousands out of the tower singing Cornish Folk songs allowing people to follow his voice through the smoke. He was last seen heading back up the stairs to search for more people when the tower collapsed His body was never recovered. Thanks Amanda. This one was on my list as well.😊
My mom hadn’t seen it, and I was surprised. I’ve been watching it for years. I chose to share this video on our (husband and I’s) business facebook for the twenty year anniversary. I don’t know how she missed it, as she makes sure to watch videos on the anniversary. She was extra emotional about it this last year, and I had her watch this. I also watch Jon (John?) Stewart addressing congress, because it’s important to remember that aspect as well, as this is a continuous problem since 9/11, and it was like forcing politicians to continue caring about these men and women.
I'm really glad Jon Stewart drew attention to this issue because it really highlights how certain politicians are devoid of all humanity. I can't believe that anyone in this country would vote against taking care of our 9/11 heroes but politicians always find new ways to betray their country. @oliviarose5030
I was only 11 that day, but my family and grandparents lived a few blocks from the towers. My grandparents were on those boats; they ended in NJ where they stayed overnight in the home of a good Samaritan. My family + 2 others (12 people) spent that night in my other grandma's 1 br apartment bc we couldn't go home. We didn't move home until Christmas and ultimately moved to Brooklyn due to the air quality. 9/11 totally changed the course of my life. I will certainly never forget.
I volunteered at a distribution center in NJ for 9-11 front line workers and people of lower Manhattan - for 6 weeks straight - 100s of trucks came in, 24-hrs a day, from all corners of the US, packed to the brim with donations of food, clothing, even doggie boots for the K9 dogs - I was so proud of my fellow Americans.
I was 8 years old as a primary school student in Utah that year. However the year after pulled a real miracle out of the rubble. At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, the flag from the Twin Towers showed up at the opening ceremony. I never forgotten the silence that fell over the stadium. Even the house I watched it from fell silent. We never really forgotten that day.
@@Amandaarford83 That's another thing I haven't even heard of until recently! In December 2023, I learned about that Canadian town that took in thousands of people when planes were being diverted to Canada because U.S. airports & air space were closed. There were 2 bonobos being transported that landed in that town, too! I only learned about it from reading the educational signs at the bonobo enclosure at the Columbus Zoo over 20 years later!
Politics aren't supposed to be featured at the Olympics, but this was too big to ignore. What I remember in how every athlete stood up in respectful silence when first responders carried that flag in.
Thank you for reacting to this- I have seen it before, but it still gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes. I remember that day like it was yesterday.
I have a friend that was “boat lifted” that day…he was in the Empire State Building, and said that you have no idea the level of panic that was widespread that day! They had no idea what was going on…he thought there was a good chance that he would die! He was picked up by a small private ski boat and taken to New Jersey and invited into a private home to contact his frantic parents, in Texas by computer, that he was safe….
January, 2009, was the "Miracle on the Hudson" about a plane ditching on the Hudson River. It was the "relief" we needed after those horrible events on 9/11 which is why it was one of the reasons it was so special to the U.S. Perhaps you could do a reaction to that news story.
I've seen this multiple times but every time that they talk about sending out the call for any boat available and when they all start showing up I start bawling like a baby 😭
While phone video was still new, there were a lot of people with hand sized video cameras at the time as well as there was EVERY professional photographer and news person in New York filming this.
On 9/11 every news organization on Manhattan had cameras, there was amazing footage live throughout the day from so many perspectives, from the ground, rooftops, and everywhere in between. Their cameras were all focused on this horrific event. I was in California on the phone with my husband while I watched the first tower collapse. My entire body was shaking with fear of the unknown of what was happening to our country. I cannot even imagine the fear, panic, and desperation that New Yorkers felt that day. As a proud American, the can-do attitude of these amazing heroes who rushed into potential danger to do whatever they could, swells that pride within me.
I'm Canadian and felt the same fear you did. I thought, what a horrible accident, and then the second Tower was hit and I realized we are at war for sure. I was also scared the American air space was cleared and hundreds of planes were landing in airports across Canada. I prayed that none of them also had terrorists on them. I remember that day so clearly. I was actually watching a good episode of Little House on the Prairie and for a second was annoyed a news story was interrupting it until I realized what was happening. I couldn't stop watching the news for days and cried constantly for all the victims. I also remember sitting on my bed the night when the first Bombs hit Iraq and thought, finally a response. Too bad it wasn't even the Iraqis that did it. It wasn't just the people in the planes and Towers and Pentagon. It was all the victims of the war for years after. I still watch footage of it when I come across it to because they all deserve to be remembered.
This video is another example of why I love you guys so much. You’re so fucking smart: I’ve watched a hundred reaction videos to this “Boatload” piece, and you’re the ONLY guys (well, Brit Pop stage right) who brought up the issue that there weren’t camera phones back then. You made my day. Can you imagine the horror that would have been captured digitally if people had them?
I'm glad BP1 realized after a moment that many were probably tourists who are carrying cameras. Out of 500,000 people, if only 100 had cameras that would be a ton of golden footage to use.
It was likely charged to the Port Authority who was also the owner of the World Trade Center, they did so much as an organization to get people out and lost a lot of their police officers in the process
Amazing acts of kindness & heroics that day!! People helped each other as they should! Not because they had to but more because they wanted to, and morally, it was the correct thing to do!! Thank you for this! ❤❤❤❤❤
This and the operation yellow ribbon story are my favorite videos from that day because even though it shows that unbelievably sad footage that still makes me cry when I see it they also give me hope because of the amazing people just doing anything they could to help each other in a terrifying time for everybody in America.
To put the number of people rescued in context: the entire population of Manhattan in 2001 was approximately 1.5 million. But almost the same number of people commute to Manhattan every weekday, so you'd have about 3 million on the island. Because the attack on the Towers began so early in the morning, it's likely that thousands of people who were supposed to be in the area or in the buildings themselves hadn't yet arrived. However, the World Trade Center is smack-dab in the middle of the financial district (Wall St. is a five minute walk away) which after hours is like a ghost town but during the day is among the busiest areas of the city. Still, that 500,000 figure is just incredible - and I say that as a lifelong New Yorker who was in Manhattan (several miles uptown) on 9/11.
@@annhayden-zh3hp If you read what I actually wrote, you'll see I was talking about the population of Manhattan specifically, not all five boroughs. Not everyone who lives in NYC comes into Manhattan on a daily basis
USCG.. proud coastie mom. My son had nothing to do with this situation.. yet he would have if he could. My son is freaking awesome.. I cant even tell you in this post.. but trust me, he will keep America from harm with every freaking skill he has!
Proud daughter of a Coastie here. We were stationed on Governors Island from 87-91. As a brat, we moved a lot, a lot. But that place is home to us all that had the privilege of living there.
I watch this video every time it comes across my scrolling and I cry every single time. 😢 But it also makes me feel proud of our fellow Americans. 🇺🇸I’m in medical field and was planning to go to NYC to help in hospitals. But the hospitals prepared for thousands of victims but there were few. 😢
Besides not knowing if more attacks were going to happen, the tunnels, subway and bridges were cleared and closed immediately because these would have been terrorist targets. The biggest cell phone towers in New York were located on the roofs of the trade center. When the buildings went down, cell phones didn't work. Landlines were so busy, they jammed up. No calls could go in or out most of the day. People leaving high rise office buildings to seek safety had no idea what was happening. They had nowhere to go. They could not contact loved ones. My brother was on a bridge going into the city when the first tower was hit. He worked near the Trade Center. He sat on the bridge for a while when traffic was stopped for emergency vehicles. When they closed the bridge he was turned around to go back to New Jersey, where he lived, but had to wait hours until the bridge reopened to go home. It was late afternoon when he wss finally able to call and lets us know he was okay. After this event, my brother went back to school and became an EMT (emergency medical technician). I was so proud of him for that.
One thing a lot of people don't realize is when the towers fell and busted all the water lines that were underground and they were using a couple of retired fire boats that the new owners brought to help pump water to the scene
Manhattan Island is about 13.5 miles long. The World Trade Center complex is at the southwestern tip of the island, along the Hudson River. It was almost impossible for anyone in the southern 1/3 of Manhattan or anywhere near the World Trade Center to travel northward towards any of the other bridges over the Hudson River towards New Jersey, or over the East River towards Brooklyn or Queens. Traffic was in gridlock throughout the island, and there were no busses/trains/subways away which could have transported anyone. That's why the boatlift was such a welcomed event.
But by all rights it should have been. Even if not broadcast that day live (for obvious reasons), maybe two weeks later that story could have been told by every network, the same way they were re-running all of the footage they originally put up on the day of. This SHOULD have been talked about, it did not need to be hidden for years on end.
Man I’ve watched this so many times and I still always cry. I was in my last year of high school when 9/11 happened, and on the other side of the country. I didn’t learn about this story until coming across this documentary last year. Thanks for checking it out.
I saw another video about this. Many people with small pleasure crafts, just regular boats that can only hold just 5 or 6 people responded, every kind of boat imaginable.
There is a lot of footage. I remember being a few weeks shy of 11 years old, being sent home early from school and watching the news for.... hours and hours, crying, confused, terrified. It didn't matter at all where you lived in the US (or anywhere really) on that day. Planes were being downed in a lot of places, and so much more happened on 9/11 than most people know, me included! My step dad was in the military, and his life was crazy that day and from then on, and just.... nothing was ever the same for those people who watched it all happen live, especially people at such a young age. I felt like I had to learn about all the evil in the world before I grew a few years and heard the untold stories like this one and learned about the courage and heroism that we normal humans are capable of as well.
A lot of the footage was either from TV news channel crews or people who had fairly-decent quality Hi8/Digital8 cameras or Mini-DV cameras, which were just coming into popularity at the time. Better quality than old VHS cameras of the day.
@@melsalteraustraliaNo,He literally said phones weren’t out then so how did they get all that footage? He was being negative like many Brits are especially when it has to do with America.
There were probably tourists with camcorders in Manhattan that day, not to mention the documentary crew and media. 1.6 million people also live in Manhattan, so some may have used their own camcorders.
Brit Pops, I've recently heard that many of the people we saw when the dust got horribly thick have since died from breathing all of it. Maybe it was months or years later, but the autopsies definitely showed that it was dust that shortened their lives.
I recently saw an article about the captain of the amberjack, the one who wanted to save the helpless after seeing it on tv. He ended up dying from cancer caused by the dust
Yes, the worst were first responders who worked the pile for weeks. They had the most extreme illnesses and nowhere near the support they deserved. But everyone in Manhattan was exposed, just seeped everywhere. Rise in cancers, COPD, emphysema, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, eye issues even. We are seeing the next wave of long term illnesses in those that were kids & young adults at the time. Especially the rate of brain tumors unfortunately. In the future, New York City Gen Z’s health statistics will be an interesting study compared to Gen X & millennials, if it shows a decrease in cancer or chronic illness.
thank you amanda and brit pops. the single eeriest thing i see in my head when 9/11 is mentioned is seeing people jump out the windows from floors as high as where the planes hit. manhatten is completely surrounded by water. it is 22.7 square miles (59 km squared). it is 13.4 miles long (21.6 km) and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) wide. in fact the land that they were built on was made by widening the area. nearly 1M people enter nyc for work.
Another 9/11 story that many people don't know about is about the Canadian town Gander. When they grounded all planes, the small town airport took 38 commercial flights. their small town exploded in population and the town took them in. took them into their homes, cooked them food, gave them their own beds to sleep in. I recommend looking it up here on youtube, there are a few videos about it.
There are many Docos done by photographers & Journalist about 9/11. They were there on the scene. One film crew that was there were French Brother with a Fire Brigade unit filming when the planes hit. There is a lot of film footage of it.
You have to remember that New York City is a major media center with all the prominent news channels having their main broadcast stations there. I do not know where they got the footage for this particular video but I can imagine that part of the footage could have come from what different camera crews had filmed on that day itself while other footage, such as the various interviews, might have been filmed some time after the event and then edited together to look smoothly. Of course I don’t know if this is what happened or not but it is a speculation that I think might have happened.
Understand, once the first tower was hit, newsrooms from across the city headed down to Manhattan to film. There were lots of people with cameras. That’s where much of the footage came from.
It's a news camera. They sent a photographer down to film and record the story of that day. You'll notice that the cameraman's voice is not heard in the video clip.
After the attack the bridges, tunnels, and subway leading off Manhattan Island were closed so no vehicles could leave the island. People either walking long distances to and across the bridges, stayed on the island, or were evacuated by boatlift. There were no other vehicles that I know of that people could use to get them off the island. I’m originally from Long Island, NY and was visiting my family on Long Island so I drove by Manhattan the day before the attack and I never heard of the boatlift until a few years ago because of this video with Tom Hanks as the narrator. I enjoy your reaction to it.
That day all Americans came together. No politics no hate because political of differences. America showed its true love for their country and its people.
on 9/11. there was a documentary film crew there doing a documentary on the NYPD. New York City, a lot of people wanting in the film business. Plus all the interviews were done post 9/11. Tom Hanks voice done after also.
@@firefighterchick I think the OP mixed them up. My father, FDNY has seen all the documentaries on 9/11 and still watches them regularly and he’s never heard about that.
12:23 You're talking about a New York that was the epitome of travel, media, architecture. Anyone who went to New York pre 9/11 had a Polaroid snap or some sort of bulky camera. It wasn't a pretty place in all sectors, but it was such a calm yet electrifying place.
That toxic cloud flew straight at us in Brooklyn. My neighborhood was one of the hardest hit in Brooklyn. I was two days shy of 20 that day. Thousands died that day. Many more thousands have died and are still dying from illnesses directly related to that poisonous cloud. My stepdad has stage 4 cancer. Mom has neuropathy. I'm trying to get a diagnosis for a chronic illness I've had for about 2 years now. Right around the 20 year mark, countless people started getting terminal diagnoses.
I knew a tiny bit of this before I saw the documentary the first time. My children were at school, so once I got home in early afternoon I was able to see some live footage on TV. My then husband was at a conference in Asheville, NC (we live in central NC) and he called me to tell me what was going on after the first plane hit. Internet was spotty because EVERYONE was trying to get information online. He called again after the second plane hit. Many of the folks at the conference were from NYC and had no way to get home since air travel was stopped. Because they had always lived in the city and used public transportation, they didn’t even know how to drive. I finally turned on a small radio that I had in my office and listened to our public radio (NPR) and the person talking was interrupted by another NPR employee who was inside the Pentagon when it was hit. My son was four (birthday on 9/15) and my daughter was eleven, so my daughter had been told at school what was going on, but we were trying very hard to not scare our son. The elementary school did not tell the younger children what had happened. It was a horrifying day, followed by horrifying news for weeks, then the deployment of armed forces.
I'm in Utah. We had planned on celebrating my daughter's 2nd birthday that day. Her birthday is the 12th. We had almost 30 adults and kids. All the adults were trying to talk about this while trying not to scare all the kids. My oldest sister had recently finished her time in the Army reserves, stationed in Germany during Desert Storm. Another BIL had just retired from the Navy. A month before.
There were a lot of freelance photographers who quickly were on the scene(s) with their video cameras, plus tourists (and of course professional journalists). They swarmed lower Manhattan and were part of the story themselves.
There were MANY professional photographers on the scene, TV news crews rushed there, even before the second tower was struck. Watch the footage that was caught as the 1st plane hit Tower 1 taken by someone filming a sewer or underground utility inspection! One of the rare videos of the first strike!
A lot of the footage of that day was shot by journalists, NYC being a major media center. The bulk of America’s media companies are based in Manhattan, plus masses of freelancers and stringers.
Remember it took time for the building to fall and newspaper and tv and reporter where already on the scene to discover what was happening and many ran with people away from the falling buildings. Best footage of the first plane in original video of 9/11 is tv report following a fireman who was showing how gas leak calls are checked out and suddenly hear plane and chaces the hitting the building from few blocks away.
I was in the 7th grade when this happened. A teacher rolled a tv on a cart into the room. We all watched it happen. This changed my life forever. Its one of the reasons why i went into the Marine's . This is what the American people do when we come together.
There is one thing that is missing from this story was that New Jersey donated the fuel for these boats so that they could rescue so many people.
I’ve actually been wondering about that the last couple of years. It was just a passing thought that I never remembered to look up after watching one of these videos. I just started wondering if the fuel would be being donated. Thank you for giving me the answer I always meant to ask!
i didn't know that. thank you for the 411.you're correct in that it needs to be a part of the story
False..the Coast Guard is part of Federal..it was all NYers taxes that paid for fuel and more..smh! All to big up new jersey when ny always pays for more than ny..federal taxes goes to red states like Texas Florida pays for their hurricanes highways storms emergencies..so stop capping
And where transporting off duty fire fighters police and EMTs to new York to help with looking for are lost brothers
@@Naruto_uzumaki120 That is another remarkable aspect of it. I remember hearing about that, but it’s not spoken about often at all.
Captain of Amberjack V, Vincent R. Ardolino, passed away on August 25th, 2018. Thanks to this documentary, your actions will not be forgotten. RIP Unsung Hero.
I recall a man, an Aussie I believe, who was on a business trip at a hotel near ground zero. He decided he would get on a boat, land wherever he landed and then find a church and approach as a christian who needed help. Instead, he met someone on the boat who brought him home and put him up.
A million acts of kindness for each evil act.
I love how you phrased that “a million acts of kindness for each evil act” That’s why I love the stories like this one and operation yellow ribbon
@@Amandaarford83 I am reminded too of natural disasters and how amazing people can be. In '94, the Northridge quake occurred 3 weeks after my 75 year old mom had knee replacement surgery.
She and the bed were thrown up, the bed landed first then she landed, bounced off and hit the floor.
My Aunt in MA was working at a church when she heard about the quake, turned on the tv and saw our corner on fire (our house survived). She was frantic and long story short, her colleague contacted a relative, an orthopedic surgeon a hundred miles south of us. Hours later when we finally got in touch, a complete stranger offered to drive up with food and water for my bros staying with the house and bring back my mom and I to stay, in THEIR HOME and he would personally check her knee.
We didn't need to accept, but I was stunned by the offer and just the behavior of most people in general. Like the convenience store across the street that handed out supplies to regulars with or without money.
Rich or poor, black or white, when the earth shakes, the fire's come or the tornado hits or the bomb's drop, we are all universally vulnerable and aware of our vulnerability and I think most decent people immediately want to reach out and help in any way.
I watched that video and I always think of it when thinking of 9/11. I believe the woman was from Staten Island who took him home and they continued to be in contact over the years and he had a least one reunion with her and her family. Such a heartwarming story and he was continually choked up thinking of the kindness she shared that awful day.
@@copperbuttons7376 Yes, it was a woman on Staten Island. Was he the same man who had two close relatives, I think his sister and his niece on the second plane which he heard hit as people were pouring into his hotel injured from the first plane?
@@pat2562 I don’t recall anything about his sister or niece being on the second plane. I do recall him talking about coming out of his hotel or an office building during or after a work meeting and seeing people fall or jump out of the towers after being hit. I got the impression he was the only one of his family in the US at the time and only being in the US for work.
That's the real American people. Don't let whats happening now fool you.
LOL that is totally true. Well put.
The Captain of the amber jack died in 2018 .. Vincent R. Ardolino 1953 - 2018
Died from cancer linked to breathing in the dust while rescuing those people.
RIP, Vincent.
@@horsesboyplz say that’s not the reason🤦♂️🤦♂️wow
Couldn’t have died in 2018. The attacks happened in 2001. But he did die due to 9/11 related illness sadly.
@@anamariacanales6871not sure what your math is here
Hard to fathom. Half a million people in under nine hours.
My brother was in the pentagon that morning. He survived.
I assume in one of the inner rings of the Pentagon?
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863 I’m looking at a picture now. His office was obliterated. Fortunately for him, he’d gone to another office where they were watching the information coming in from New York not yet knowing what was about to happen. It saved his life.
We grew up in southwest Louisiana on a dead end street with a bayou at the end. A family with only one house between us lost their nephew at the Pentagon that day. The randomness of a small town in Louisiana has always struck me. One survived and one didn’t.
Thank God! My hub’s new office there was hit- luckily he was at his Skyline office that day. I heard the big BOOM!! and thought we were being bombed.
@@TheDivayenta terrifying.
Somebody up there really loves your brother!
Boats, docks, port authority, Coast Guard, CCTV on buildings. On 9/11, a professional film crew was documenting NY fire houses. They ended up in the buildings lobby with the firemen, and recording the sounds of jumpers, and the collapse. It's footage that is completely heartbreaking.
I wish they would react to that video. There are two versions of that one, with one being full account and the other being brief. Both are good to watch for them to get the depth. I saw the towers fall from my rooftop in Brooklyn. When I saw the cloud coming, I ran down to my apartment to close the windows. I lived on the 6th floor, top floor of my building. I wish everyone would know what and how it happened. We all lost people from 9/11.
The Naudet Brothers 9/11 documentary. The full version is a little over an hour long, available here on UA-cam and incredible to watch.
They also got footage of the first plane hitting the first tower because they were out on a smell of gas call down the street from the towers when it happened. They were one of the first ones in the building & were in that lobby when the second tower was hit & still in that lobby when the second tower fell. They definitely should react to it.
Manhattan is filled with our major news stations and news papers , amateur and professional the island was full of people who had video cameras
@@jacd751A must see !!!
Within 24 hours hordes of people were headed to New York with food, water, dog food (it was televised that the dogs were searching) bedding, food money whatever was needed was sent immediately
I cry every single time I watch this video when they make the call for all available boats to report to governors island! These people dropped every thing and took a risk not knowing what was going to happen to just go help without a concern for themselves. God I love my country!
Me too, I grew up on Governors Island.
you have finally answered something i've wondered for the few years i've known about this video, I never could make out what the island name was when they say it, now I know, Thank you
As a native New Yorker who was overseas on 9/11 and who lost a family member when the first tower fell, I never learned about the boat lift until I began watching reactions on UA-cam.
So many people died that day but many more died years later due to cancer from the ash from the buildings. Many of the people who are in this video covered in ash are no longer alive.
Canadian here. I learned a lot about what happened on that day but like you have never known about the boat lift until today. I remember clearly where I was at that time(at work) and being informed to what had happened.Horrific day! so sorry for the loss of your family member.
@@dianesheard9309 Thank you!
@@dianesheard9309 Have you watched the video yellow ribbon. As a Canadian I remember the TV and radio stations talking about the air space being shut down and all the planes that were being diverted to Canada and I wondered how they could land hundreds of planes not meant to come to Canada. I also said a prayer that none of the planes landing in Canada had terrorists on them too.
Every media person/camera crew in the area was there covering that story. That's why there is so much professional-looking footage, I imagine.
This happened in one of the biggest communication news network cites in the world and it’s also the largest location for freelance journalists and photographers. This is why you are not only seeing a lot of footage during a time there were no cell phones but high quality too. The photographers and journalists were on those boats saving themselves while documenting one of the most important rescues in human history.
exactly. photographers and videographers are known for taking their cameras out as soon as they realize history is unfolding just before their eyes.
I'd say unfortunately most Americans don't even know the story of these true heroes.
Captain Vincent Ardolino of the Amber Jack V(the first man who spoke in the video)died in 2018.
I don't know the cause of death but it's a real probability that he died as a result of exposure to the dust and smoke.
To this day people are dying as a result of medical and psychological effects of that day.
This video no matter how many times that I've seen it makes me tear up.
This was the perfect opportunity to riot, loot, etc.
It simply didn't happen. As he said everyone helped everyone.
I think a lot of it was security csmeras on the dock, boats, etc.
New York had a lot surveillance cameras before 9/11.
Now from what I understand NYC is nw second in the world for surveillance cameras right behind London.
Another example of a hero is Richard Cyril Rescorla.
He was a British American who was the Vice President of Security for Morgan Stanley in the South Tower of the WTC.
He previously served in the British Army and later the US Army in combat roles.
He had even designed an evacuation plan for the building believing this type of attack was a real world possibility.
He's accredited with leading thousands out of the tower singing Cornish Folk songs allowing people to follow his voice through the smoke.
He was last seen heading back up the stairs to search for more people when the tower collapsed His body was never recovered.
Thanks Amanda. This one was on my list as well.😊
My mom hadn’t seen it, and I was surprised. I’ve been watching it for years. I chose to share this video on our (husband and I’s) business facebook for the twenty year anniversary. I don’t know how she missed it, as she makes sure to watch videos on the anniversary. She was extra emotional about it this last year, and I had her watch this.
I also watch Jon (John?) Stewart addressing congress, because it’s important to remember that aspect as well, as this is a continuous problem since 9/11, and it was like forcing politicians to continue caring about these men and women.
@@oliviarose5030 💯 Jon Stewart's testimony was amazing and has usual with any topic much less this one politicians are greedy cowards.
I'm really glad Jon Stewart drew attention to this issue because it really highlights how certain politicians are devoid of all humanity. I can't believe that anyone in this country would vote against taking care of our 9/11 heroes but politicians always find new ways to betray their country. @oliviarose5030
I notice your username. Are you a firefighter?
@@DonnaBrooks yes I am.🙂
I was only 11 that day, but my family and grandparents lived a few blocks from the towers. My grandparents were on those boats; they ended in NJ where they stayed overnight in the home of a good Samaritan. My family + 2 others (12 people) spent that night in my other grandma's 1 br apartment bc we couldn't go home. We didn't move home until Christmas and ultimately moved to Brooklyn due to the air quality. 9/11 totally changed the course of my life. I will certainly never forget.
Sadly the Captain of the Amberjack died in 2008. People in upper Manhattan had to walk over the bridges to leave the island
2018 I thought? RIP Captain.
It was 2018
Vincent R. Ardolino 1953 - 2018
Sweet Mr. Ardolino.. RIP hero.. xo
I volunteered at a distribution center in NJ for 9-11 front line workers and people of lower Manhattan - for 6 weeks straight - 100s of trucks came in, 24-hrs a day, from all corners of the US, packed to the brim with donations of food, clothing, even doggie boots for the K9 dogs - I was so proud of my fellow Americans.
They had film crews hopping on the boats and riding with them over, they knew they were going to get historic footage.
As many times that I have watched this video I cry every time. Never forget. 🇺🇸
It brings me to tears every time. Just the sound of the planes approaching, knowing the outcome, does it to me.
I cry too♡
I was 8 years old as a primary school student in Utah that year. However the year after pulled a real miracle out of the rubble. At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, the flag from the Twin Towers showed up at the opening ceremony. I never forgotten the silence that fell over the stadium. Even the house I watched it from fell silent. We never really forgotten that day.
That give me chills every time I see the video of them presenting that flag at the Olympics
@@Amandaarford83 That's another thing I haven't even heard of until recently! In December 2023, I learned about that Canadian town that took in thousands of people when planes were being diverted to Canada because U.S. airports & air space were closed. There were 2 bonobos being transported that landed in that town, too! I only learned about it from reading the educational signs at the bonobo enclosure at the Columbus Zoo over 20 years later!
Politics aren't supposed to be featured at the Olympics, but this was too big to ignore. What I remember in how every athlete stood up in respectful silence when first responders carried that flag in.
Thank you for sharing a positive story during 9/11. We Americans want the world to know the better parts of us as a country
Thank you for reacting to this- I have seen it before, but it still gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes. I remember that day like it was yesterday.
I have a friend that was “boat lifted” that day…he was in the Empire State Building, and said that you have no idea the level of panic that was widespread that day! They had no idea what was going on…he thought there was a good chance that he would die! He was picked up by a small private ski boat and taken to New Jersey and invited into a private home to contact his frantic parents, in Texas by computer, that he was safe….
January, 2009, was the "Miracle on the Hudson" about a plane ditching on the Hudson River. It was the "relief" we needed after those horrible events on 9/11 which is why it was one of the reasons it was so special to the U.S. Perhaps you could do a reaction to that news story.
I've seen this multiple times but every time that they talk about sending out the call for any boat available and when they all start showing up I start bawling like a baby 😭
Gander, the small town in Canada with the biggest hearts!!❤❤ Thank you!❤
While phone video was still new, there were a lot of people with hand sized video cameras at the time as well as there was EVERY professional photographer and news person in New York filming this.
A lot of the pictures are still shots as well.
On 9/11 every news organization on Manhattan had cameras, there was amazing footage live throughout the day from so many perspectives, from the ground, rooftops, and everywhere in between. Their cameras were all focused on this horrific event. I was in California on the phone with my husband while I watched the first tower collapse. My entire body was shaking with fear of the unknown of what was happening to our country. I cannot even imagine the fear, panic, and desperation that New Yorkers felt that day. As a proud American, the can-do attitude of these amazing heroes who rushed into potential danger to do whatever they could, swells that pride within me.
I'm Canadian and felt the same fear you did. I thought, what a horrible accident, and then the second Tower was hit and I realized we are at war for sure. I was also scared the American air space was cleared and hundreds of planes were landing in airports across Canada. I prayed that none of them also had terrorists on them. I remember that day so clearly. I was actually watching a good episode of Little House on the Prairie and for a second was annoyed a news story was interrupting it until I realized what was happening. I couldn't stop watching the news for days and cried constantly for all the victims. I also remember sitting on my bed the night when the first Bombs hit Iraq and thought, finally a response. Too bad it wasn't even the Iraqis that did it. It wasn't just the people in the planes and Towers and Pentagon. It was all the victims of the war for years after. I still watch footage of it when I come across it to because they all deserve to be remembered.
This video is another example of why I love you guys so much. You’re so fucking smart:
I’ve watched a hundred reaction videos to this “Boatload” piece, and you’re the ONLY guys (well, Brit Pop stage right) who brought up the issue that there weren’t camera phones back then. You made my day.
Can you imagine the horror that would have been captured digitally if people had them?
I'm glad BP1 realized after a moment that many were probably tourists who are carrying cameras. Out of 500,000 people, if only 100 had cameras that would be a ton of golden footage to use.
What is great is that the fuel depot refueled boats participating free of charge all day.
It was likely charged to the Port Authority who was also the owner of the World Trade Center, they did so much as an organization to get people out and lost a lot of their police officers in the process
Amazing acts of kindness & heroics that day!! People helped each other as they should! Not because they had to but more because they wanted to, and morally, it was the correct thing to do!! Thank you for this! ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for doing this reaction. It’s hard to watch but we never want to forget. Lots of heroes that day.
This and the operation yellow ribbon story are my favorite videos from that day because even though it shows that unbelievably sad footage that still makes me cry when I see it they also give me hope because of the amazing people just doing anything they could to help each other in a terrifying time for everybody in America.
A lot of people have died since then because of the dust clouds.
To put the number of people rescued in context: the entire population of Manhattan in 2001 was approximately 1.5 million. But almost the same number of people commute to Manhattan every weekday, so you'd have about 3 million on the island. Because the attack on the Towers began so early in the morning, it's likely that thousands of people who were supposed to be in the area or in the buildings themselves hadn't yet arrived. However, the World Trade Center is smack-dab in the middle of the financial district (Wall St. is a five minute walk away) which after hours is like a ghost town but during the day is among the busiest areas of the city. Still, that 500,000 figure is just incredible - and I say that as a lifelong New Yorker who was in Manhattan (several miles uptown) on 9/11.
Respectful correction, the population of NYC in 2001 was 8 million
@@annhayden-zh3hp If you read what I actually wrote, you'll see I was talking about the population of Manhattan specifically, not all five boroughs. Not everyone who lives in NYC comes into Manhattan on a daily basis
USCG.. proud coastie mom. My son had nothing to do with this situation.. yet he would have if he could. My son is freaking awesome.. I cant even tell you in this post.. but trust me, he will keep America from harm with every freaking skill he has!
Proud daughter of a Coastie here. We were stationed on Governors Island from 87-91. As a brat, we moved a lot, a lot. But that place is home to us all that had the privilege of living there.
I watch this video every time it comes across my scrolling and I cry every single time. 😢 But it also makes me feel proud of our fellow Americans. 🇺🇸I’m in medical field and was planning to go to NYC to help in hospitals. But the hospitals prepared for thousands of victims but there were few. 😢
Besides not knowing if more attacks were going to happen, the tunnels, subway and bridges were cleared and closed immediately because these would have been terrorist targets. The biggest cell phone towers in New York were located on the roofs of the trade center. When the buildings went down, cell phones didn't work. Landlines were so busy, they jammed up. No calls could go in or out most of the day.
People leaving high rise office buildings to seek safety had no idea what was happening. They had nowhere to go. They could not contact loved ones.
My brother was on a bridge going into the city when the first tower was hit. He worked near the Trade Center. He sat on the bridge for a while when traffic was stopped for emergency vehicles. When they closed the bridge he was turned around to go back to New Jersey, where he lived, but had to wait hours until the bridge reopened to go home. It was late afternoon when he wss finally able to call and lets us know he was okay.
After this event, my brother went back to school and became an EMT (emergency medical technician). I was so proud of him for that.
One thing a lot of people don't realize is when the towers fell and busted all the water lines that were underground and they were using a couple of retired fire boats that the new owners brought to help pump water to the scene
I never knew that. Wow!
I still cry.
People interviewed was later for documentary. Originally they had only the images.
Manhattan Island is about 13.5 miles long. The World Trade Center complex is at the southwestern tip of the island, along the Hudson River. It was almost impossible for anyone in the southern 1/3 of Manhattan or anywhere near the World Trade Center to travel northward towards any of the other bridges over the Hudson River towards New Jersey, or over the East River towards Brooklyn or Queens. Traffic was in gridlock throughout the island, and there were no busses/trains/subways away which could have transported anyone. That's why the boatlift was such a welcomed event.
This was a story that was definitely not mainstream.
But by all rights it should have been. Even if not broadcast that day live (for obvious reasons), maybe two weeks later that story could have been told by every network, the same way they were re-running all of the footage they originally put up on the day of. This SHOULD have been talked about, it did not need to be hidden for years on end.
Thanks for reacting to this. Love from Chicago, Illinois.
Whenever I see people running to help others I become overwhelmed with gladness. Thank God for the pure love within us
Thi video was so informative, I had no idea!! Amazing people!!❤❤❤
Thanks for watching and sharing this!!😢❤😢❤
I thank you for watching ( Boat lift) the rescue from Manhattan Island 9/11 , !!❤❤
you're not alone, SO MANY Americans have never seen this story, it was one of our finest hours
I've seen the Boatlift video multiple times over the years and I get choked up every time.
Man I’ve watched this so many times and I still always cry. I was in my last year of high school when 9/11 happened, and on the other side of the country. I didn’t learn about this story until coming across this documentary last year.
Thanks for checking it out.
Awesome reaction. You should check out the NBC story of Gander on 9/11.
A hero is a man who does what he can. Sometimes a hero is a human who does what nobody can.
I live in the suburbs of NY and never knew this until 20 years in. It was a great video.
9:05 ; Correction. The Enterity of Manhattan is an Island
I saw another video about this. Many people with small pleasure crafts, just regular boats that can only hold just 5 or 6 people responded, every kind of boat imaginable.
There is a lot of footage. I remember being a few weeks shy of 11 years old, being sent home early from school and watching the news for.... hours and hours, crying, confused, terrified. It didn't matter at all where you lived in the US (or anywhere really) on that day. Planes were being downed in a lot of places, and so much more happened on 9/11 than most people know, me included! My step dad was in the military, and his life was crazy that day and from then on, and just.... nothing was ever the same for those people who watched it all happen live, especially people at such a young age. I felt like I had to learn about all the evil in the world before I grew a few years and heard the untold stories like this one and learned about the courage and heroism that we normal humans are capable of as well.
Thanks for addressing this! It needs to be talked about more...it's an amazing story. So many unsung heroes that day.
A lot of the footage was either from TV news channel crews or people who had fairly-decent quality Hi8/Digital8 cameras or Mini-DV cameras, which were just coming into popularity at the time. Better quality than old VHS cameras of the day.
12:45. Do we really need to explain that Americans had handheld mini camcorders back then, especially in NYC?
Wow!! The guys arent from America so dont know what people were using there and thats why they were wondering.
@@melsalteraustraliaNo,He literally said phones weren’t out then so how did they get all that footage? He was being negative like many Brits are especially when it has to do with America.
I left Manhattan via ferry that day. Even though it makes me cry, I watch this video every year to remind me that good can arise from bad.
There were probably tourists with camcorders in Manhattan that day, not to mention the documentary crew and media. 1.6 million people also live in Manhattan, so some may have used their own camcorders.
There were a lot of newscopters out filming that day.
Great video, such a tragic day.
Brit Pops, I've recently heard that many of the people we saw when the dust got horribly thick have since died from breathing all of it. Maybe it was months or years later, but the autopsies definitely showed that it was dust that shortened their lives.
The deaths will be in the Thousands,I realized that on day one.Sad.
The first camera phones were out in 1999!
One of the responding boats had a camera crew onboard filming something when the planes hit, and they stayed aboard for the evacuation to film it.
NY is one of the media capitals if the world so every remote camera team recorded every thing combined with ariel news coverage
I recently saw an article about the captain of the amberjack, the one who wanted to save the helpless after seeing it on tv. He ended up dying from cancer caused by the dust
Yes, the worst were first responders who worked the pile for weeks. They had the most extreme illnesses and nowhere near the support they deserved. But everyone in Manhattan was exposed, just seeped everywhere. Rise in cancers, COPD, emphysema, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, eye issues even. We are seeing the next wave of long term illnesses in those that were kids & young adults at the time. Especially the rate of brain tumors unfortunately. In the future, New York City Gen Z’s health statistics will be an interesting study compared to Gen X & millennials, if it shows a decrease in cancer or chronic illness.
thank you amanda and brit pops. the single eeriest thing i see in my head when 9/11 is mentioned
is seeing people jump out the windows from floors as high as where the planes hit. manhatten is completely surrounded by water. it is 22.7 square miles (59 km squared). it is 13.4 miles long
(21.6 km) and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) wide. in fact the land that they were built on was made by
widening the area. nearly 1M people enter nyc for work.
Another 9/11 story that many people don't know about is about the Canadian town Gander. When they grounded all planes, the small town airport took 38 commercial flights. their small town exploded in population and the town took them in. took them into their homes, cooked them food, gave them their own beds to sleep in.
I recommend looking it up here on youtube, there are a few videos about it.
There are many Docos done by photographers & Journalist about 9/11. They were there on the scene. One film crew that was there were French Brother with a Fire Brigade unit filming when the planes hit. There is a lot of film footage of it.
For the coverage, im thinking possibly news helicopters since they were flying around the trade centers when they were struck.
Most of the boats came from NJ. and the rest ather states close to NYC. Some of those videos r from people w/📷's mix in w/ NY media coverage.
You have to remember that New York City is a major media center with all the prominent news channels having their main broadcast stations there. I do not know where they got the footage for this particular video but I can imagine that part of the footage could have come from what different camera crews had filmed on that day itself while other footage, such as the various interviews, might have been filmed some time after the event and then edited together to look smoothly. Of course I don’t know if this is what happened or not but it is a speculation that I think might have happened.
Understand, once the first tower was hit, newsrooms from across the city headed down to Manhattan to film. There were lots of people with cameras. That’s where much of the footage came from.
It's a news camera. They sent a photographer down to film and record the story of that day. You'll notice that the cameraman's voice is not heard in the video clip.
After the attack the bridges, tunnels, and subway leading off Manhattan Island were closed so no vehicles could leave the island. People either walking long distances to and across the bridges, stayed on the island, or were evacuated by boatlift. There were no other vehicles that I know of that people could use to get them off the island. I’m originally from Long Island, NY and was visiting my family on Long Island so I drove by Manhattan the day before the attack and I never heard of the boatlift until a few years ago because of this video with Tom Hanks as the narrator. I enjoy your reaction to it.
That day all Americans came together. No politics no hate because political of differences. America showed its true love for their country and its people.
on 9/11. there was a documentary film crew there doing a documentary on the NYPD. New York City, a lot of people wanting in the film business. Plus all the interviews were done post 9/11. Tom Hanks voice done after also.
What was the documentary for the NYPD called?
The only documentary i knew about that was being filmed was about the FDNY by two brothers from France.
@@firefighterchick I think the OP mixed them up. My father, FDNY has seen all the documentaries on 9/11 and still watches them regularly and he’s never heard about that.
@@nepasuperscenters8783 that's what I was thinking as well.
@firefighterchick the brothers are Jules and Gideon Naudet. Their documentary of the day is simply titled 9/11.
@@deannamarie8389 Thanks and much appreciated
The film was probably taken by local tv reporters. NYC is the news hub for the U.S.
ABC, NBC, and CBS are all located in Manhattan.
Thank you so much!
I believe that the people talking about what happened was filmed later and added to the footage shot on 9/11
Alot of news stations around there. Probably the media filming!
12:23 You're talking about a New York that was the epitome of travel, media, architecture. Anyone who went to New York pre 9/11 had a Polaroid snap or some sort of bulky camera. It wasn't a pretty place in all sectors, but it was such a calm yet electrifying place.
A lot of people are surprised by all the American flags they see when they come to the U.S. It became MUCH more popular to fly the flag after 9/11.
Lots of people had camcorders my grandpa had his at all times In a bag that hooked to his belt
That toxic cloud flew straight at us in Brooklyn. My neighborhood was one of the hardest hit in Brooklyn. I was two days shy of 20 that day. Thousands died that day. Many more thousands have died and are still dying from illnesses directly related to that poisonous cloud. My stepdad has stage 4 cancer. Mom has neuropathy. I'm trying to get a diagnosis for a chronic illness I've had for about 2 years now. Right around the 20 year mark, countless people started getting terminal diagnoses.
I knew a tiny bit of this before I saw the documentary the first time. My children were at school, so once I got home in early afternoon I was able to see some live footage on TV. My then husband was at a conference in Asheville, NC (we live in central NC) and he called me to tell me what was going on after the first plane hit. Internet was spotty because EVERYONE was trying to get information online. He called again after the second plane hit. Many of the folks at the conference were from NYC and had no way to get home since air travel was stopped. Because they had always lived in the city and used public transportation, they didn’t even know how to drive. I finally turned on a small radio that I had in my office and listened to our public radio (NPR) and the person talking was interrupted by another NPR employee who was inside the Pentagon when it was hit. My son was four (birthday on 9/15) and my daughter was eleven, so my daughter had been told at school what was going on, but we were trying very hard to not scare our son. The elementary school did not tell the younger children what had happened. It was a horrifying day, followed by horrifying news for weeks, then the deployment of armed forces.
I'm in Utah. We had planned on celebrating my daughter's 2nd birthday that day. Her birthday is the 12th. We had almost 30 adults and kids. All the adults were trying to talk about this while trying not to scare all the kids. My oldest sister had recently finished her time in the Army reserves, stationed in Germany during Desert Storm. Another BIL had just retired from the Navy. A month before.
❤❤❤❤❤ May we never forget.
It’s a shame that living here in the States I’ve never seen or heard anything about boat rescues during that horrific day.
THIS is what makes me proud to be an American.
There were a lot of freelance photographers who quickly were on the scene(s) with their video cameras, plus tourists (and of course professional journalists). They swarmed lower Manhattan and were part of the story themselves.
Good going, guys. Thanks for foing this one. ❤
There were MANY professional photographers on the scene, TV news crews rushed there, even before the second tower was struck.
Watch the footage that was caught as the 1st plane hit Tower 1 taken by someone filming a sewer or underground utility inspection! One of the rare videos of the first strike!
One thing people forget That the number of people that died that day are now out numbered by those who are dying now.
Will never forget
News Crews were everywhere. Once that call went out, news agencies sent crews to these boats to interview ppl.
That's where they got the footage.
A lot of the footage of that day was shot by journalists, NYC being a major media center. The bulk of America’s media companies are based in Manhattan, plus masses of freelancers and stringers.
Also the HQs of the US Networks are in Manhaton. Every freelancer was out for footage.
Remember it took time for the building to fall and newspaper and tv and reporter where already on the scene to discover what was happening and many ran with people away from the falling buildings. Best footage of the first plane in original video of 9/11 is tv report following a fireman who was showing how gas leak calls are checked out and suddenly hear plane and chaces the hitting the building from few blocks away.
@user-oe2mi3tv3i it's a documentary by Jules and Gideon Naudet. The film is simply called 9/11.
I was in the 7th grade when this happened. A teacher rolled a tv on a cart into the room. We all watched it happen. This changed my life forever. Its one of the reasons why i went into the Marine's . This is what the American people do when we come together.
Thanks, Guys
This was good coverage
You should check out- Gander, the ripple effect. Another great watch out of 911