Reminiscences of Chris Kelleher : oral history, 2001.

Biographical Note

Lieutenant, Fire Department of New York City.

Scope and Contents

Background: born and raised Ozone Park, Queens, NY; residence in Baldwin, NY; education: General Equivalency Diploma; career: factory work, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Lieutenant Fire Department of New York; 9/11: arrival after collapse of towers, on-site recovery work at World Trade Center [WTC], eerie and chaotic atmosphere of WTC site, searching for companies and rigs, accounting for survivors, learning of deaths, comparing site to war zone, difficulty breathing, anecdotes regarding Chinatown, story of fire fighters and citizen trapped alive in a pocket in stairwell; post-9/11: response of firefighting community to tragedy, increase in public awareness of firefighters work, fire department recovery work, reminiscence of lost friends and colleagues.

Subjects

• Fire fighters--New York (State)--New York--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Kelleher, Chris--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Thompson, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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