![]() 12.Īfter helping out on a couple of tasks, Murphy and his group joined one of the "bucket brigades," where workers lined up on the pile of debris, filled 5-gallon buckets of rubble and passed them down from one person to another to the bottom. He spent the night at the firehouse and then rode along with a group from Engine 60 to ground zero in the early morning hours of Sept. When he dropped off his items in the bunk room, he found it filled with mattresses. He rode his motorcycle to his old firehouse in the South Bronx that houses Engine 60, Ladder 17 and the 14th Battalion - about 10-12 miles from the World Trade Center site. There were no vehicles on the George Washington Bridge and when Murphy arrived at the toll gate, a trooper waved him through. ![]() "When you're on I-80 you can see the skyline of New York near Parsippany and where the World Trade Center used to be there was just these two twisty, curly pillars of smoke," Murphy recalled. Murphy climbed back on his motorcycle, fueled up and headed to New York City on his own. When he arrived, Murphy said both Karen and co-worker, Michelle Gillombardo, had already packed his turnout gear, clothes and food. ![]() ![]() He rode home to Hudson on his motorcycle. "We broke up and when I saw the first tower fall, I just took off and headed home." "He looked at me like, 'are you kidding me?'" Murphy recalled. Murphy passed a note to the moderator of the mock trial telling him what had just happened. ![]()
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