Reminiscences of Jay Swithers, 2004

Biographical Note

Captain, Emergency Medical Services, FDNY

Scope and Contents

Background: born Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY; parents' early deaths; career: Harlem EMS [Emergency Medical Services], Urban Search and Rescue team paramedic; 9/11: arrival on site from Brooklyn, work at triage area, escape from beneath debris after collapse of towers; post-9/11: Ground Zero recovery effort

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Emergency medical personnel--New York (State)--New York--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.). Fire Department--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Swithers, Jay.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2004