Hitting Home
It was a day of large confusion and larger heroism. Police, firefighters and paramedics waged a frantic war against time to rescue victims trapped in the rubble deep belowground–while in the smoky, darkened halls and stairwells of the trade center’s twin towers, thousands of frightened office workers found themselves trapped and gasping for air Helicopters whirled overhead–and plucked 28 people from rooftops 110 stories above the street. title: “Hitting Home” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-26” author: “Jose Flores” Stretching east on Long Island, from the border with Queens halfway to the Hamptons, is a jumble of suburbs whose borders are so unmemorable residents sometimes just describe their hometowns as a certain exit number on the Long Island Expressway....