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From: Simonetti, Ray

Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:35 PM


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Cc: Begley, James; Stickelman, Timothy; Lee, Megan
Subject: Farrell, Thomas; Morris, Joseph; Scott, Michael; Caron, Robert; Mackesy, Leonard
List of personnel that listened to the FDNY 9/11 Tape

List of attendees on:

July 10, 2002


Sal Cassano - FDNY
Lisa Frazier - FDNY
Peter Hayden - FDNY
Dan Shacknai - FDNY
Don Stanton - FDNY
Mike Weinlein - FDNY
Chief Joseph Morris - PSD
Ray Simonetti - PSD

July 12, 2002


Sal Cassano - FDNY
Henry Dingman - FDNY
Lisa Frazier - FDNY
Ray Goldbach - FDNY
Dan Shacknai - FDNY
Don Stanton - FDNY
Chief Joseph Morris - PSD
Ray Simonetti - PSD

July 15, 2002


Sal Cassano - FDNY
Henry Dingman - FDNY
Ray Goldbach - FDNY
Frank Gribbon - FDNY
Joe Pfeifer - FDNY
Nicholas Scoppetta - FDNY
Don Stanton - FDNY
Chief Thomas Farrel - PSD
Ray Simonetti - PSD

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1:51:41 (loud tones, possibly turning on repeater)
1:54:08 (possible repeater)

1:59:58 Battalion 1 to Battalion 7


2:00:19 Battalion 1 to Battalion 7
2:00:24 Battalion 1 to Battalion 7 how do you read me

2:00:29 Battalion 1 to Battalion 7


2:00:30 Battalion 7 to Battalion 1 how do you read me

2:00:36 Battalion 1 to Battalion 7


2:00:42 Battalion 7 to Battalion 1 how do you read me

2:00:47 553Alt bravo to 1


2:00:50 Go ahead 20

2:00:50 Battalion 1 to Battalion 7


2:00:51 Bravo to 7
2:00:52 Alt bravo Battalion 7
2:00:57 I'm down in the lobby, I can read ya
2:00:59 Alright, the guy 11 .. .check
2:01:04 Battalion 1 to Battalion 7 I don't think we have the repeater... I picked up
on my radio but not on the hard wire
2:01:13 Aright, you want me to remain on ch 7 or go to ch 1
2:01:16 Alt bravo to field com
2:01:18 We're gonna have to use the car repeater; do think you have your repeater
on?
2:01:23 I'm gonna use the chief burns in the lobby of tower 2

2:01:30 Ok we're gonna need something on this tower 1 here


2:01:33 Alright I got the repeater on in the battalion .. ..radio ok?

2:01:44 Battalion 7 to Battalion 1


2:01:48 Battalion 1 we're using ch 2 in this bldg as a command channel for the
chief
2:01:57 Alright do you understand chl with the tactical?
2:02:01 Our standard tactical is just stay on command ch 2
2:02:10 alright 10 4

2:05:50 218 209 jimmy


2:05:22 go ahead George
2:05:25 are you still in the garage
2:05:27 yeah, we're dumping it right now
2:05:29 alright hang in there a minute
2:05:31 alright
2:05:41 ok thanks bud

2:06:12 com 4 bravo to division 1


2:06:17 alt bravo to division 1
2:06:25 alt bravo to division 1
2:06:30 can anyone over in tower I hear me?

2:06:43 City wide Barbara city wide towers


2:06:52 negative I'm looking at.. .tower 1
2:06:57 alt bravo to division 1

2:07:08 alt bravo...I'm in tower 2

2:07:25 I'm by the American Express building tower


2:07:47 Battalion 7915 how do you read me?
2:07:59 car 4 bravo to Manhattan
2:08:05 car 4 bravo to city wide

(not correct time on the recording)

598 car 4 bravo to field com


604 4 bravo to field com
609 this is alt bravo...???

616 can anybody read me


625 This is alt bravo, can I get a 6 alarm for tower 2, .. .can come in on ? street
a 6 alarm for tower 2.. .have to come in.. .liberty

663 com 4 bravo to field com

698 alt bravo to com 4


702 alt bravo to 3
705 hey pete did you get that, I need a 5th alarm over in tower 2
717 hey ? what # car is this
719 listen I tried to get then to come in on ? and liberty
724 Battalion 7 Battalion 7 alpha

726: alpha
728: alright we're sending the elevator down for you

744: this is Battalion 7 to lobby command post tower 2


749: ? (answer)
753: this is Battalion 7 in the south tower to lobby command post tower 2
757: not picking up
759: who is at the lobby command post in tower 2
761: this is Battalion 7 in tower 2, we got one elevator working up to the 40th
floor in tower 2 staffed by a member of ladder 1510
767: alright but I got no units yet, there's no unit's here yet
771: yeah, we're just talking about ? (prep)
778: alt bravo to car 3
781: we got an eyewitness who says there was an explosion on floor 78, 78
788: that's tower 2

863: ? alpha to 7
865: go ahead Steve.
866: where are you chief?
870: Go on out to the right, keep going out to the right, to the corner building to
the ? stairway

872: Hold on 7 alpha, hold on

896: ? bravo to ?
900: Battalion 7 is up in t2, he's up.. .on the 40th floor
907: hey Joe, I need some companies up here in tower 2,1 need some company

918: (name?) you left the heat detector here, do you need it?
921: negative Tommy, keep it in the elevator with you

937: Battalion 7 chief


939: Battalion 7 go
940: emergency service cops want to back you up, can you tell them where you
are, they got a whole lot a ? with them
944: we're on the 43rd floor, Stairway b

1001: Battalion 7 to the branch commander of tower 2, the south tower


1010: yo Battalion 7 is in tower 2

1026: 5919
1028: go ahead ?
1030: I just got a report from the director of Morgan Stanley, ? , there's a lot of
bodies, they said the stairway is clear all the way up though
1037: alright, 104 Scott, what floor are you on?
1039: 48 right now
1041: alright, keep walking; we're coming up behind ya

1066-1075 ?

1084: 7alphato7
1085: go ahead Steve
1086: yeah chief I'm gonna stop on floor ? (maybe 44)
1089: yeah, take your time
1090: 104
1100: Battalion 7 to branch commander of tower 2
1105: Battalion 7 to branch commander of tower 2, south tower

1209: 15ov to Battalion 7


1211: Battalion 7
1212: I've got an engine company on 40, do you want them up there
1215: tell'em we're gonna have to find you.. .a high rise bank of elevators is
operations but 2 these other guys ??? can't do that

1225: Battalion 7 to 15ov


1226: ov
1227: try and get down to the lobby, find out what bank of elevators permeates
below the 76th floor, that's the bank we're gonna want to use
1230: 104

1241: Battalion 7 to branch commander tower 2, south tower, again


1251: Battalion 7 to field com ?
1257: 7 alpha... 15 to Battalion 7 Oriole we're in the north tower, tower 2, the
north tower
1263: correction, Battalion 7 the south tower, tower 1, branch commander k?

1280: Battalion 7 to Battalion 15ov


1306: ...7
1309: Battalion 7 you want me to ??? (realright)
1312: yeah Steve, tell chief Oriole Palmer that we got reports that there's more
flames in the area, we may have to back down here
1320: 104, 7 alpha to 7
1326: 7 alpha ???

1340: 15 to 15 roof
1344: 15 roof
1346: we got reports of another incoming plane, we may have to take cover, stay
in the stairwell
1350: 104
1362: 15 to 15 roof, that plane is ours, I repeat, it's ours, what floor are you on
Scottie?
1367: 54
1369: alright, keep making your way up, we're coming up behind you

1374: b9 to Battalion 7
1375: go ahead battalion
1377: Oriole
1378: come in
1380: what floors are we trying to get up to Oriole
1381: I'm up to 55, we need to try to find the bank of elevators that permeate
below the ???... floor, ok

1389: below what floor


1391: below 76, that's where the fire, 78.. .we need to try to find the bank of
elevators that terminate below 76
1396: alright

1412: (alarm and background voices) .. .stairway A...


1446: ?

1476: 15 to 15 roof

1482: (call for accidental poisoning) the time is 9:36

1541; Battalion 7 tower 1


1547: ...Battalion 7
1553: Battalion 7 go
1565: ...1 to Battalion 7
1566: go

1573: Battalion 7 respond


1589: Battalion 7... 1...

1600: (more of call for poisoning)

1629: 51 delta to rescue 1,?

1669: 15to51ov
1670: 15ov
1671: alright Tommy listen carefully, I'm sending all the injured down to you on
40, you're gonna have to get em down to the elevator, there's about ten to
fifteen people coming down to you
1679: ok
1681: ten civilians coming down
1685: 15ov
1686: got that, I'm on 40 right now
1689: Tommy, when you get people down to he lobby, try to get any ???
1662: definitely

1695: Battalion 7 ladder 15ov


1700: Battalion 7 ladder 15ov
1706: 7 alpha to 7 ??? where are you
1708: tell em.. .command post
1711: repeat...
1715: 7 alpha to 7 repeat that
1734: rescue 1... (beeps)
1745: (other call, not important)

1767: hazmat 1 to Battalion 7


1768: go ahead hazmat 1
1769: alright we're at stairway b, tower 2 on the 14th floor
1774: tower 1 ?
1775: tower 2
1777: Battalion 7 to tower 1, south tower

1813: Battalion 7 ladder 15 roof, what's your progress


1816: it's ...battalion
1818: code 4

1827: b9 to Battalion 7
1829: go ahead b9
1830: Oriole, I couldn't find a bank to bring me up there any higher, I'm on the
40th floor, what can I do for you
1833: we're gonna have to hoof it up, I'm on 69 (or 59?) now but we need a...?
1839: what stairway are you in also
1842: the center of the building, boy, boy

1848: tack one to tack one alpha

1912: Battalion 7 ladder 15 roof, 4th floor


1917: b9 to Battalion 7
1918: go ahead b9
1919: Oriole, we're trying to get a couple of cfrv engines on the 40th floor, so
send any victims down here, I'll set up a staging area
1921: the fireman's elevator works to Fulton, do you think...??? We'll be alright

1960: 15 to Battalion 7
1963: where are you chief
1965: 70th floor
1968: alright we're making our way up behind you, we took our coats off
1970: Battalion 7 branch commander, tower 1 south tower ?

1977: Battalion 7 to the branch 1 commander south tower ?


1983: Battalion 7 to ladder 15ov elevator

2013: Battalion 7, b9
2015: b9 to Battalion 7
2016: these stairway walls have been compromised on 73, 74. no smoke or fire
problem, ok
2023: ok, 104
2044: 15 to Battalion 7
2045: go ahead 15
2047: what do you got up there, Pete
2049: I'm still in boy stairway 74th floor, no smoke or fire problem, the walls are
breached so be careful
2054: yeah, 10 4,1 saw that on 68, alright we're on 71, we're coming up behind
you
2059: yeah 104, ...?go
2065: let me know when you see fire (loud beep)
2068: ok I'm also on 75

2081: rescue 1 delta to rescue 1 ???


2086: rescue 1
2088: ...1

2109: rescue 1 delta to terry, can you hear me, I'm on 1

2121: 15tol5ov
2126: 15tol5ov
2129: 15ov
2130: Tommy, have you made it back down to the lobby yet
2133: no the elevator' s screwed up
2135: you can't move it
2138: I don't want to get stuck in that shaft
2143: alright, Tommy, it's imperative that you try to get down to the lobby
command post and get some people up to 40, we got injured people up
here on 70. if you make it to the lobby command post, see if they can
somehow get elevators past the 40th floor, we got people injured all the
way up here.

2168: 7 alpha to 7
2169: go Steve
2170: yeah chief, I'm on 55,1 gotta rest, I'll try to get up there as soon as
possible
2175: 104

2189: 15 to Battalion 7
2190: Battalion 7
2191: what floor are you on Oriole
2192: the stairway ends at 75, go to the south stairway and continue up
2195: 104

2234: 15 to Battalion 7
2234: south tower, tower 1 branch commander
2239: anybody see the highway one car, highway one car, we need it for an
escort to the hospital for a fireman
2245: Battalion 7 to 15
2248: ???
2252: 15 to 15 roof...
2256: b6 to command post
2261: Battalion 7 to Battalion 7 alpha

(Correct time on the recording)

2:46:41 Freddie come on over, Freddie come on over by us


2:46:44 ...battalion..

2:46:48 ... 15 we got proof, isolated pockets of fire, we should be able to knock it
down with two lines..., mango that, 78th floor, numerous 1045...?

2:47:03 what stair are you in Oriole


2:47:06 7 alpha to lobby command post
2:47:10 15 to Battalion 7
2:47:12 go ahead 15
2:47:15 chief, what stair are you in
2:47:16 south stairway Adam, south tower
2:47:19 floor 78
2:47:22 104, numerous... we gotta get two engines up here
2:47:26 alright 104, we're on our way
2:47:30 b6 to command post
2:47:38 battalion chief reports there is a sky lobby available at the 44th floor that
will serve the floors above, ...?
2:47:54 7 alpha to lobby command post
2:47:59 Chief Palmer reports that on the 78th floor, numerous 1045 code one's, we
got isolated pockets of fire, we need at least two hand lines up there ?
2:48:15 7 alpha from the Battalion 7
2:48:19 south tower...???... trade 1
2:48:30 Battalion 7 ladder 15
2:48:31 15
2:48:33 I've got to move to many firefighters out of the stairway to knock down
two fires, we're got a house like.. .we can get some water on it and knock
it down
2:48:40 Alright, 104, we're coming up the stairs, we're on 77 now in the b stairs,
we'll be right to you
2:48:47 15 alpha to 15
2:48:52 we're on 71, we're coming right up
2:48:55 b? to the lobby command post tower a
2:49:08 b48 lobby command post tower 1
2:49:15 b48 lobby command post tower 1
2:49:20 operations tower 1, go lobby command post
2:49:37 15ovtol5
2:49:44 Oriole, we're on 78 but we're in the b stairway trapped in here, we gotta
put some fire out to get to you
2:49:55 15 roof to 15
2:49:58 go ahead 15 roof
2:50:00 he recommend using the south stairs, the a stairs
2:50:05 alright, 104, we're gonna knock down some fire here in the b stair and
we'll meet up with you, you get over to the a stair and help out Chief
Palmer
2:50:11 10 4 roof
2:50:13 ??? lobby command to the field com command post
2:50:34 operations tower 1 to the ??? b9
2:50:41 b9 to command post
2:50:44 Battalion 7 operations tower 1, to b9,1 need you with ??? 79, we lost the
stairs going up to 79, ?

2:50:53 alright I'm on my way up Oriole


2:50:54 15ovtol5
2:50:59 go ahead 15ov, Battalion 7 operations tower 1
2:51:03 stuck in the elevator, in the elevator shaft, you're gonna have to get a
different elevator we're chopping through the wall to get out
2:51:09 radio lobby command with that, tower 1

2:51:40 Battalion 7 ladder 15

2:51:41 (end of communication)


2:51:44 (end of recording)

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