Quote Originally Posted by headshake
how many firefighters and cops were there to start? the first reports were upwards of 10,000 dead. i'm pretty sure they would have taken volunteers, trained or not.

-shake
The city told people to stay away. We had thosands of volunteer PROFESSIONALS coming in from the Tri-State area, and beyond.

I did my part by going back to work in the financial district when the offices reopened the following week. We had to deal every day with airborne chemicals from Ground Zero, and with bomb and anthrax threats to our workplaces. This was not a walk in the park, for anybody in NYC at the time.