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I was out trying to get stripes on the bird..... heard it on the radio and then saw it.

Skipped the stripes and drove to my fire house.

Tuned the fire radios into FDNY.

Heard horrible things.

Shortly after my chief arrived and we jumped on a truck and drove to another fire house - we met up with multiple other fire depts.

Eventually we were called in.

We drove right up to a park near George Washington bridge and staged with approx 30 other fire dept's.

Army helicoptors and jets were flying around.

Eventually they said they wanted to keep it FDNY and NY fd's only - no NJ FD's.

That was the last time I rode on a fire truck - shortly after I never returned.