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# Report from Ground Zero

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Vivid, stunning & haunting...a CLASSIC
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2002*

Can a book about a tragedy move you even more than highly-compelling television documentaries which allow you to relive the moment in images and interviews? The answer is YES. Report From Ground Zero by retired New York City firefighter Dennis Smith has haunted me for months. I found it absolutely riveting -- except I could not read this in long stretches it was so tragic, so horrifying...yet, in the end, so inspiring. The TRAGEDY: the book's first half contains mostly rescue worker first-person accounts of what went on during what author Smith calls "the saddest day of our history," a day with "no center...no middle...no end" but "collapsed into that single instant at 8:48 a.m." when the first tower was hit. You WILL cry when you read it. You're going to feel you now personally KNOW the anguished -- and outraged -- people telling you what happened and you will see, through their eyes, what took place, feel their losses, visualize the people they knew who gave their lives, and be absolutely determined that this can never happen again. The HORROR: film and tape can only show what is captured on film and what time (2 hours etc.) . But these extensive printed accounts bring it even closer to home -- and go on in detail, with no time constraints. There are so many accounts it's impossible to even condenses them here, but here are a few quick key highlights that show how incredibly compelling the written word can be:--Bob Humphrey, Engine 4: "I watched about 20 people jump. I heard them land, but I couldn't see them. It was good I couldn't see them...." When the South Tower collapsed, he writes,  "it was completely black. I couldn't see. I had no mask and no light, and it was hard breathing..." When north tower collapsed "the force lifted the cars off the ground and set them at all angles. I jumped down to the street and covered my heard. It was too terrible. Too much."-- Firefighter Frank Vaskis, after the explosions:  "There are body parts all around...." -- and it describes them.--A firefighter walks to where the fire command is supposed to be and  "as building 2 comes down this great wind comes, chops me to my stomach and basically pushes me all the way back through the same window I came through."  It's pitch black for awhile....then gray, like a massive black and white photo...then cloudy.--Nightmarish descriptions of the relentless PLOP! PLOP! PLOP! as the towers' floors systematically collapse, becoming huge concrete pancakes.--People fruitlessly looking for  loved ones. A firefighter whose son is a firefighter asks: "Have you seen my son?" The INSPIRATION: No matter what, these firefighters and rescue workers plowed ahead, strictly focused on saving lives, not obsessing over the threats to their own lives. And how, in the last part of the book, even when the worst rescue work was over they worked at the building, removing debris, painstakingly sifting through all of it in the hopes that maybe someone might still be alive and that those not alive might be identified. There are tons of books now about Sept. 11. This is one that'll be required reading in history classes 100 years from now...and hopefully will be used as a motivational book in military classes for many years to come.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I wasn't ready...
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023*

I owned and read Report from Engine Co. 82 in paperback many years ago, and replaced it with a Kindle copy several years ago. So I was already familiar with the author. Twenty-two years later, I thought I was ready to read a detailed account of 9/11. But I was wrong. This was a very painful book to read, and sometimes shocking. I don't fault the writing style for an instant; it was respectful and in no way sensationalistic. But hard to read, all the same. I'm *not* saying don't spend the money or read the book...just, be prepared.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The stories behind the names
  

*by R***L on Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017*

Outstanding work by Dennis Smith, who personally knew many of the people and families affected in the destruction of the World Trade Center.  I have climbed stairs in their memory before, read their names, and seen their pictures, but never before seen into their lives and their souls in the way that Dennis allows to in this book.  He says in closing that he regrets not being able to tell every story of those lost, but this is an outstanding of telling those stories that he could.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Report from Ground Zero
- Report from Engine Co. 82
- Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11

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