{"id":1249,"date":"2023-09-05T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2023-09-15T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:39:51","slug":"11-days-of-heroes-to-september-11th-2023-anthony-palmieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/11-days-of-heroes-to-september-11th-2023-anthony-palmieri\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Days of Heroes to September 11th, 2023: Anthony Palmieri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Read the full story online from the 9\/11 Memorial & Museum Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read a compilation of responses from Department of Sanitation worker Anthony Palmieri, who worked for nine months with the DSNY at the World Trade Center site:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI was working for the New York City Department of Sanitation around 215th<\/sup>\u00a0Street in Manhattan. I had been with the department since 1984. That day, I was with my partner, Joe, doing our regular collection route. Someone passed us and said, \u2018Did you hear a plane hit the World Trade Center?\u2019 We thought, like most New Yorkers, that it was a terrible accident. When we heard the second plane hit, we knew it was more than a coincidence. It was a day that you wish you could forget, but you can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the Sanitation garage, we could see the smoke from the towers. It was far, but you could see it. My first thoughts were about my wife and children\u2026I tried to get home as fast as possible to make sure they were safe. At the time, I was also a volunteer firefighter in New Jersey, and I thought my company would be called in. I got in my car to go home, but the traffic was horrendous\u2026every road was a mess\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Department of Sanitation\u2019s role, when we first got down there, was anything and everything that had to be cleaned or moved. We started on the outer perimeter, cleaning buildings, washing streets, throwing out rotting food from vacant stores. It was non-stop, 24 hours a day. Most of the time, I was cleaning up in that capacity. For a few days, I also drove a truck which carried steel out from the pit and brought it over for transfer to the barges on the East River. As time progressed, we had to start handling the garbage that accumulated from places of rest for volunteers. I was there working for about nine months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Image from NYU<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read the full story online from the 9\/11 Memorial & Museum Website Read a compilation of responses from Department of Sanitation worker Anthony Palmieri, who worked for nine months with the DSNY at the World Trade Center site: \u201cI was working for the New York City Department of Sanitation around 215th\u00a0Street in Manhattan. I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}