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1 FILE NO WORLD TRADE CENTER TASK FORCE INTERVIEW BATTALION CHIEF THOMAS VALLEBUONA INTERVIEW DATE JANUARY 2002 TRANSCRIBED BY LAURIE COLLINS

2 VALLEBUONA CHIEF MCGRATH TODAYS DATE IS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 2ND 2002 THE TIME IS 1353 HOURS AM BATTALION CHIEF JAMES MCGRATH OF THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT IM CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW WITH BATTALION CHIEF THOMAS VALLEBUONA THIS INTERVIEW WOULD BE REGARDING THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001 THIS INTERVIEW IS TAKING PLACE IN THE QUARTERS OF BATTALION 21 IN STATEN ISLAND TOM IF YOU WOULD JUST START FROM WHENEVER YOU RECEIVED THE ALARM AND RESPONDING TO THE SCENE AND TELL US IN YOUR OWN WORDS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED MYSELF AND STEVE ZASA WERE WORKING THE NIGHT TOUR IN THE 21 BATTALION AROUND 800 IN THE MORNING WE GOT RUN TO THE HOSPITAL BAILEY SETON HOSPITAL WHICH IS CLOSE TO THE SHORELINE OF NEW YORK HARBOR ON STATEN ISLAND AS WE WERE TAKING UP FROM THE BOX IT WAS 1035 FELLOW CAME DOWN THE STAIRS AND TOLD US THAT HE JUST HEARD FROM HIS WIFE THAT THERES BEEN AN EXPLOSION IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

3 VALLEBUONA SO FROM THERE WE WENT DOWN TO THE QUARTERS OF MARINE AND WE WERE WATCHING ACROSS THE BAY WE COULD SEE THE FIRE IN THE NORTH TOWER WHEN THE NEXT PLANE THAT WAS GOING TO HIT THE SOUTH TOWER FLEW OVER OUR HEADS CALLED UP THE DISPATCHER TO VOLUNTEER TO GO TO THE FIRST ONE AND AFTER THE PLANE WENT OVER OUR HEADS WE WERE NOTIFIED TO RELOCATE TO THE 32 BATTALION WE THEN RELOCATED TO THE 32 BATTALION WE GOT THERE PRETTY QUICK THE BRIDGE WAS ALREADY CLOSED TO TRAFFIC THE COPS THERE WERE DOING GREAT JOB WE TALKED TO THE DISPATCHER AND MADE NOTIFICATIONS COULD HEAR RESCUE WANTING TO GO AND THEY WERENT TELLING THEM TO GO YET THEN THINK THEY WERE RELOCATING THEM BUT WAS TELLING THE DISPATCHER THOUGHT THEY SHOULD SEND RESCUE BECAUSE THEYRE GOING TO NEED ALL THE HELP THEY CAN GET WHEN GOT TO THE 32 BATTALION WE FOUND THE CREW FROM THE 32 BATTALION WAS IN QUARTERS BUT THEIR CAR WAS NOT THERE UPON ARRIVAL WE WERE NOTIFIED TO BRING THEM OVER TO COMMAND POST AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND

4 VALLEBUONA BELIEVE IT WAS VESEY AND BROADWAY WHICH AT THAT TIME WASNT REALLY SURE WHERE THAT WAS SO WE TOOK AS MANY CYLINDERS AS WE COULD IN THE RIG FROM THE DEPOT AT 101 AND 202 AND WE PROCEEDED THROUGH THE TUNNEL THE TUNNEL HAD ALREADY BEEN CLOSED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THERE WERE STAGING UNITS THERE WE WERE WAVED THROUGH UPON COMING OUT OF THE TUNNEL LOOKED UP WEST STREET AND COULD SEE LOT OF APPARATUS SO DECIDED BECAUSE THE BROOKLYN DISPATCHER HAD ASKED US TO COME BACK TO BROOKLYN IF WE COULD AND WASNT SURE OF THE LOCATION OF THE COMMAND POST THEY GAVE US SO DECIDED TO STOP ON WEST STREET ROUGHLY IN FRONT OF 90 WEST STREET OPPOSITE ACTUALLY AND WALK UP THE STREET BECAUSE COULD SEE CHIEFS SETTING UP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE JUST BEYOND LIBERTY STREET ON WEST STREET ON THE SIDEWALK AREA COULD SEE THREE CHIEFS SETTING UP THERE SO FIGURED WOULD GO UP THERE AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY WANTED ME TO BRING THE CHIEF FROM THE 32 AND IF THEY WANTED ME TO STAY UPON WALKING UP AS GOT TO THE OTHER

5 VALLEBUONA SIDE OF THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE ASKED THEM IF THEY WANTED ME TO STAY THEY SEEMED ACTIVELY INVOLVED LOOKED UP REALIZED HOW BAD THINGS WERE AND SAID THEYRE GOING TO WANT ME TOO DECIDED TO GO BACK TO THE CAR AND GET MY GEAR BECAUSE WE WERENT SURE AND WE FIGURED WE WOULD JUST REPORT IN THERE BECAUSE THERE WAS LOT OF ACTIVITY GOING ON ALTHOUGH THE STREET SEEMED AMAZINGLY EMPTY IT WAS BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL FALL DAY UPON GETTING BACK TO THE CAR STARTED TO GRAB MY TURNOUT GEAR TOLD THE OTHER CHIEF WELL GO UP THERE SEE WHATS GOING ON THAT WELL CHECK IN UP THERE AND ILL BE RIGHT BEHIND HIM LET THEM KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME CYLINDERS HERE AS SILLY AS IT SEEMS NOW WHEN HEARD BOOM AN EXPLODING SOUND REAL LOUD BANG LOOKED UP AND COULD SEE THE TRADE CENTER STARTING TO COME DOWN THE SOUTH TOWER WHICH GUESS WAS ABOUT BLOCK AWAY FROM LOOKING UP IN TOTAL AMAZEMENT COULDNT BELIEVE WHAT WAS SEEING WHICH PROBABLY EVERYBODY WAS IN THE SAME BOAT SAW

6 VALLEBUONA STUFF COMING OFF THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING IT LOOKED LIKE GIANT FOUNTAIN IT WAS ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL IN STRANGE WAY SAID CANT BE HERE MUST BE BACK IN THE FIREHOUSE BUT WITHIN SECONDS IT WAS PROBABLY LESS BECAUSE THEY SAY THE BUILDING CAME DOWN IN EIGHT AND HALF SECONDS REALIZED THAT WE WERENT FAR ENOUGH AWAY FROM THIS BUILDING AND WE WERE GOING TO BE HIT BY STUFF IT SEEMED LIKE YOU COULD JUST SEE STUFF SPIRALING OUT LIKE CONE SO WE PROCEEDED TO TRY AND OUTRUN IT MYSELF AND MY AIDE STEVIE ZASA WE WERE HOLDING HANDS WITHIN SECONDS WERE ENGULFED IN CLOUD THAT YOU COULDNT SEE YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE IT WAS HARD TO BREATHE IF ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE YOU FELT LIKE YOU WERE EATING THE DUST YOU COULD HEAR THINGS FALLING AROUND YOU YOU COULDNT SEE ANYTHING WE DIDNT GET HIT BY ANYTHING LUCKILY WE HUNKERED DOWN BECAUSE WE DIDNT WANT TO KEEP ON RUNNING BECAUSE WE COULDNT RUN THE THOUGHT IN MY MIND IS WE WERE GOING TO END UP LIKE THE PEOPLE IN POMPEII TOTALLY BURIED IN ASH AND

7 VALLEBUONA DUST WHEN SAW THE CLOUD COMING TOWARDS ME IT WAS BROWNISH AND LIKE COLOR THAT SAID THIS HAS GOT TO BE HOT YOU DIDNT KNOW WHAT IT WAS DIDN FIGURED WE WERE GOING TO GET BURNT UP BUT WE AFTER HALF HAIL MARY SAID WEVE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE SO WE STARTED TO CRAWL AROUND WE WORKED OUR WAY SOUTH AND WE WORKED OUR WAY WEST ONE BLOCK DONT KNOW WHETHER THERES STREET ON WEST STREET THAT WOULD BE OFF THAT BUT PROBABLY DOWN TO ALBANY WE MADE OUR WAY DOWN TO ALBANY STREET ACCORDING TO THIS MAP WOULD SAY IT WAS ALBANY WENT DOWN ALBANY AND TO THE BUILDINGS ON THE CORNER OF ALBANY AND END BUT ON THE EAST SIDE OF THAT BUILDING GOT IN THERE AND FOUND STORE WE OPENED UP STORE AND WE STARTED TO BRING PEOPLE IN THERE PEOPLE WERE WALKING AROUND IN THIS CLOUD HAD LIGHT SO WAS DIRECTING PEOPLE IN WITH THE LIGHT AND WE WERE BRINGING THEM IN LOT OF PEOPLE WERE IN THERE PEOPLE WERE JUST WANDERING AROUND WHAT SEEMED LIKE MINUTES BUT ACTUALLY IT TURNED OUT TO BE

8 VALLEBUONA GUESS 20 MINUTES OR MORE WHEN THE DUST FINALLY CLEARED WE GOT BACK TO THE APPARATUS WHICH WAS PARKED OPPOSITE 90 WEST STREET THERE WERE FIREMEN COMING UP THE STREET REMEMBER SEEING IM NOT SURE WHAT THE FELLOWS NAME IS HE WAS RUNNING UP THE STREET HE SAID COME ON CHIEF WEVE GOT TO DO SOMETHING WEVE GOT TO DO SOMETHING SAID WAIT MINUTE LETS JUST FIGURE OUT WHATS GOING ON LETS GET OUR ACT TOGETHER AS LOOKED OVER IN FRONT OF ME GUESS CHIEF CRUTHERS HAD JUST SHOWN UP BECAUSE HE DIDNT LOOK LIKE HE WAS DUSTY OR ANYTHING HE LOOKED PRETTY GOOD HE HAD HIS CAR THERE HE HAD PLANS OR MAP DONT KNOW ON HIS CAR PROCURED MY MASK BECAUSE FIGURED THE OTHER ONE IT ONLY MADE SENSE THAT SOMETHING ELSE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN PUT MY MASK ON AND HAD IT READY HAD NO GEAR STILL BUT HAD MASK BECAUSE DIDNT THINK COULD BREATHE THAT STUFF AGAIN WENT OVER TO TALK TO CHIEF CRUTHERS SAW GUYS RUNNING UP THE STREET WAS TRYING

9 VALLEBUONA TO STOP THEM FROM RUNNING UP THE STREET BUT DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO LOT OF THOSE GUYS MYSELF AND CHIEF CRUTHERS STARTED TO TALK AND SAID WHAT SHOULD WE DO AND BA BOOM AGAIN THE SAME SOUND THE SAME NOISE THE SAME SHUDDERING SHRILLING NOISE OF THE METAL FALLING AS IT CASCADES DOWN EVEN THOUGH ITS FURTHER AWAY IT SEEMED LIKE ALMOST WORSE CLOUD WE WERE ENGULFED AGAIN IN THE CLOUD BUT WE SORT OF HAD BETTER IDEA THE STUFF WAS HITTING AROUND US MORE IT SEEMED LIKE THAT TIME DONT KNOW WHY YOU COULD HEAR LIKE THINGS HITTING THE GROUND BOOM BOOM BOOM AND STUFF STILL WE WERE LUCKY LOST TRACK OF EVERYBODY THIS TIME LOST TRACK OF THE AIDE WAS ON MY OWN REALLY DONT REMEMBER HOW WE GOT OUT OF THAT ONE OR IF IT CLEARED SOONER BUT THE NEXT TIME WE CAME UP THE STREET USED MY MASK THIS TIME TO TRY TO TAKE FEW SHOTS IT TURNED OUT BEING MISTAKE BECAUSE GOT THE PROVERBIAL SHOT OF CRAP IN MY FACE AND DUST MY EYES WERE IMPOUNDED WE CAME BACK AND DIDNT KNOW WHERE STEVIE WAS AND WAS REALLY UPSET ABOUT THAT

10 VALLEBUONA 10 WHERE THOUGHT CHIEF CRUTHERS HAD RUN THERE WAS BIG PIECE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER DONT KNOW HOW IT WENT OVER THE WALKWAY WHERE SAW LINE GO UP THE STREET TOWARDS THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE PROBABLY GUESS YOU WOULD CALL IT THE EAST SIDE OF THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE THERE WAS LINE GOING UP THE STREET THERE DONT REMEMBER IF IT WAS FROM THE SQUAD TRYING TO TAKE LINE UP THERE BUT WAS TRYING TO HOLD PEOPLE BACK AND THEY WENT UP THERE BUT WHERE THAT LINE WENT UP THERE WAS NOTHING BUT PILE OF RUBBLE ON TOP OF IT THERE MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE 15 DONT KNOW HOW HIGH IT WAS HEARD RADIO TRAFFIC BUT COULDNT FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON OR WHO WAS DOING WHAT WALKED MY WAY UP THE STREET AND WENT UNDER THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE WHEN CAME OUT IT WAS CLEAR NOW THE DUST WAS PRETTY CLEAR SAW CHARLIE BLAICH WAS ON TOP OF PILE THERE DIRECTING HE LOOKED LIKE CURRIER IVES THING THE OLD CURRIER IVES COULDNT BELIEVE HE WAS CALM AS HELL HE WAS DOING TERRIFIC JOB DIRECTING GUYS THAT COULDNT SAID CHARLIE DONT KNOW WHATS

11 VALLEBUONA 11 GOING ON HERE IM REALLY KIND OF BEAT UP WAS PRETTY BEAT UP SAID IM GOING TO GO DOWN AND ILL GET WATER BECAUSE WE HAD SOME PUMPERS HOOKED UP BEFORE THIS AND READY TO GO BOTH TIMES THINK EVEN BEFORE THE FIRST ONE WE HAD PUMPER HOOKED UP ON WEST STREET AND READY TO GO TOLD CHARLIE HE DIDNT RECOGNIZE ME BECAUSE HE SAID LOOKED LIKE BLACK MAN DRESSED UP IN WHITE FACE ITS NOT FUNNY BUT THATS THE WAY IT LOOKED WENT DOWN THE STREET AND WE STARTED USING THE PUMPER 90 WEST STREET HAD COUPLE OF FLOORS OF FIRE GOING AT THE TIME THERE WAS FIRE ON THE FIRST FLOOR AND WE FELT THERE WAS FIRE IN THE BASEMENT WE WENT IN THE FRONT VESTIBULE DOOR AND THE AIR WAS SUCKING IN SO WE GOT SOME LINES AND WE WERE GOING TO TRY AND EXTINGUISH FIRE IN THAT BUILDING 90 WEST STREET ALSO HAD WHICH WE WERE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT HAD SCAFFOLDING AROUND IT ALL THE WAY UP IT WAS GIGANTIC BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION THE APPARATUS WAS STARTING TO BURN UP

12 VALLEBUONA 12 ON THE STREET AND THERE WERE LOT OF FIRES BURNING ALL AROUND US LOT OF CARS WERE STARTING TO TAKE OFF SOME AMBULANCES THINK IT WAS 113S RIG WAS STARTING TO BURN UP GUY SAID CHIEF IT WAS NOT THAT YOU DIDNT CARE DID CARE WE WERE TRYING TO DO STUFF GUYS WERE COOPERATING WAS THE ONLY CHIEF THERE AT THAT TIME PEOPLE WOULD TAKE LEADERSHIP VERY WELL WHATEVER YOU WANTED TO OFFER THEY WOULD DO GUYS WERE VERY COOPERATIVE SO WE GOT SOME LINES GOING AND WE WERE TRYING TO KNOCK THINGS DOWN AND THE LINES BASICALLY WENT FLAT THEY DIDNT GO FLAT BUT THEY WENT LIMP ALMOST YOU REALIZED RIGHT AWAY THAT THE MAINS MUST HAVE GONE OUT IN EITHER THE FIRST OR THE SECOND COLLAPSE BASICALLY OUR WATER SUPPLY WAS NOTHING IT WASNT EVEN ENOUGH FOR ONE LINE COMING OFF THAT PUMP WE WERE TRYING TO WORK ON OTHER TRYING TO FIND OTHER SOURCES OF WATER THE TIME SPAN NOW COULDNT REALLY EVEN TELL YOU AS THE DAY WENT ON LIKE HOW LONG THIS TOOK HOW LONG THAT TOOK WE GAVE UP ON 90 WEST STREET AS FAR AS AN INTERIOR OPERATION GOES

13 VALLEBUONA 13 BECAUSE WE HAD NO MASKS WE HAD NO COMMUNICATIONS WE HAD LIMITED AMOUNT OF PEOPLE QUITE FRANKLY THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FIFTH ALARM THAT BUILDING WITHOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON MY OBJECTIVE AT THAT TIME WAS TO NOT LOSE ANYBODY ELSE AT THIS FIRE WHICH FELT AT THAT TIME WOULD BE MIRACLE OF COURSE AS WE ALL KNOW THAT HAS BECOME MIRACLE THAT NOBODY ELSE REALLY DIED AFTER THIS THAT WE KNOW OF JUST TRIED TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY OF 90 WEST STREET AFTER WE REALIZED WE COULDNT DO AN INTERIOR OPERATION TRIED TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM WALKING UP UNDERNEATH THE SCAFFOLDING WAS GRIEVOUSLY CONCERNED WITH THAT BECAUSE ALL DAY LONG YOU COULD HEAR IT SEEMED LIKE RIVETS OR WHATEVER PINGING OFF THE THING GOING PING PING WE TRIED TO SET UP IN FRONT OF NOT 90 WEST STREET BUT THE MARRIOTT AND WORK OFF THAT CORNER FOR SOME MIRACULOUS WAY TOLD GUYS TO GO DOWN DONT KNOW HOW THIS EVER WORKED OUT BUT TOLD THEM TO GO TO THE WATERFRONT AND SEE IF THEY COULD SEE FIRE BOAT

14 VALLEBUONA 14 IT SEEMED LIKE WITHIN REMARKABLE AMOUNT OF TIME DONT WANT TO SAY MINUTES BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IT COULDNT BE IT SEEMED LIKE SHORTLY THEREAFTER LINES WERE COMING UP THE STREET THREE AND HALF INCH LINES WE SUPPLIED THE STANDPIPE WITH NON POTABLE WATER AT THE MARRIOTT AND SENT GUY FROM 108 TRUCK ILL NEVER FORGET THAT BECAUSE IT WAS FORMER COMPANY OF MINE GUY SAID 108 TRUCK HERE SAID GO GET STANG WHICH WE ALL KNOW THATS NOT WHAT WE CALL IT ANYMORE SAID GO TO THE ROOF OF THE MARRIOTT AND YOU TAKE LINE OFF THE MANIFOLD AND WELL START BECAUSE THE ROOF OF 90 WEST STREET WAS PROCEEDING TO BURN AT THAT TIME ALSO THE OBJECTIVE AS IM TELLING YOU WAS TO KEEP THE FIRE FROM EXTENDING AND TO NOT LOSE ANY MORE PEOPLE WE GOT HAND LINES INTO THE MARRIOTT ALSO AND WE OPERATED OFF THE STANDPIPE DONT KNOW HOW WE DID IT COMPANIES WERE COMING IN FROM NEW JERSEY WHO WERE HELPING US STRETCH LINES PEOPLE WERE REALLY WORKING GOOD WE HAD COUPLE LINES GOING ACROSS FROM THE MARRIOTT AND

15 VALLEBUONA 15 OFF THE ROOF THAT FIRE HEARD WAS BURNING RIGHT THROUGH TO THE NEXT DAY BUT FELT LIKE AT LEAST WE KNOCKED DOWN AND DID CONFINE SOMEWHAT THE FIRE THERE IT WASNT TOTAL CHAOS AS PEOPLE CAME UP THE STREET IF SAW SOMEBODY FROM SUC IT WAS WONDERFUL THING TO SEE THE GUYS FROM STATEN ISLAND COME IN AND ALL THE GUYS KNEW ITS REMARKABLE HOW FAST THAT WAS HAPPENING AS PEOPLE WOULD COME IN WOULD HAVE GUYS WORK WITH ME BOBBY MOSIER SHOWED UP AND HE SHOWED HIS TERRIFIC ABILITY TO LEAD BUT AS GUYS WOULD COME IN WOULD SEND GUYS FROM SOC UP THE STREET UP TO CHARLIE AND WE WOULD KEEP THE GUYS DOWN THERE TO CONFINE THE FIRE WOULD SAY AROUND OR 500 WAS KIND OF BURNT UP AND COULDNT BEAR TO SEE ANOTHER BUILDING FALL DOWN SO TOOK WALK DOWN THE STREET AND TOOK REST TOLD BOBBY MOSIER HE SAID HE DIDNT MIND LOT OF CHIEFS WERE THERE AT THE TIME AROUND WEST STREET AT THAT SECTOR JUST SAT DOWN FOR WHILE RELAXED CALLED HOME AND TOLD EVERYBODY WAS ALIVE

16 VALLEBUONA 16 WENT BACK AND TRIED TO DO SOME MORE AS IT GOT DARK BUT COULDNT SEE SO WENT DOWN TO CLINIC THAT WAS SET UP ON WASHINGTON STREET DOWN THERE SOMEPLACE TRIAGE CENTER DOCTOR COULDNT WASH OUT MY EYES SO GOT RIDE OVER TO THE HOSPITAL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN WALKED BACK AND GUESS AROUND WENT HOME THATS ABOUT IT GUESS JUST COUPLE OF QUICK THINGS PERHAPS YOU COULD CLARIFY DO YOU KNOW WHOSE PUMPER YOU WERE TAKING THE LINES OFF TO GO IT WAS THAT TO 90 WEST STREET THE PUMPERS RAN OUT OF WATER BUT DO YOU KNOW WHOSE PUMPER IT WAS NO WE STARTED GETTING THINGS GOING REMEMBER 15 TRUCK BELIEVE WE USED AS TOWER LADDER ALSO ON THE SIDE THERE AT 90 WEST STREET WITH CAPTAIN MCKINNEY TIMMY MCKINNEY COUPLE GUYS THE PUMPERS THERE YOU KNOW PEOPLE WERE COMING IN IT WAS AMAZING THE STUFF THAT WAS GOING ON IT REALLY WAS

17 VALLEBUONA 17 THE OTHER THING AS IM SURE YOURE AWARE NOT TOO MUCH THERE WERE BODY PARTS ALL OVER THE PLACE IT WAS JUST TOTAL WHAT ABOUT THE COMPANY THAT WAS STRETCHING DO YOU REMEMBER ANY OF THE COMPANIES HAD 108 TRUCK HAD THE CAPTAIN OF DI THINK HE HAD HIS GUYS WE KNOCKED DOWN FIRE ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF 90 WEST STREET AND HE WENT TO THE ENTRANCE TO THE BASEMENT HES PRETTY GOOD FIREMEN WHICH THEYRE ALL GREAT FIREMEN BUT HE HAD TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF HEAT HAD NO MASK HE FELT THERE WAS NO WAY WE BELONGED IN THE BASEMENT THERE ALSO WHAT OTHER COMPANIES LET ME THINK ITS REALLY HARD TO RECALL BECAUSE THINGS WERE SO SCREWED UP AND GUYS WERE COMING IN REALLY CANT REMEMBER THE COMPANY NUMBERS DONT KNOW WHY ITS JUST HARD THERES LOT OF STUFF YOU JUST DONT REMEMBER IM SURE ANY RADIO TRANSMISSIONS THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER HEARD MAYDAYS IN THE BEGINNING WHOSE THEY WERE CANT REALLY REMEMBER

18 VALLEBUONA 18 ALWAYS TRIED TO TRAIN MY SELF TO KEY IN ON MAYDAYS THE GUYS WERE REALLY TERRIFIC NEVER HAD MORE PEOPLE FOLLOW ORDERS AND DO THE RIGHT THING IN MY WHOLE TIME GUYS WENT UP THE STREET THAT SHOULD HAVE GONE UP THE STREET IT WAS TERRIFIC BUT THE UNITS JUST CANT REMEMBER JERRY REALLY CANT REMEMBER WHAT UNITS THE NUMBERS WE GOT OUR ORDER FROM MARINE LOT OF FIREMEN CAME OVER FROM NEW JERSEY DONT KNOW HOW THEY GOT THERE GUESS BY BOAT AND THEY WERE STRETCHING LINES UP THE STREET TOO QUITE FEW LINES THOSE FIRE BOATS TELL YOU IF THEY

19 VALLEBUONA 19 DONT KNOW THEY NEED NEW FIRE BOATS BY NOW THEYRE NEVER GOING TO KNOW ALL RIGHT IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU CAN THINK OF THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO ADD THATS IT ALL RIGHT WANT TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR INFORMATION CHIEF MCGRATH THIS WILL CONCLUDE THE INTERVIEW THEN THE TIME IS 1412 ONCE AGAIN THIS INTERVIEW TOOK PLACE IN THE QUARTERS OF THE 21 BATTALION

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