911 Emergency Room

This brand new film tells of the emergency treatment of the injured that took place in and around the World Trade Center as the jets crashed and the towers fell on the morning of 9/11. Many lost their lives in the attacks, but there were also thousands of evacuating office workers and emergency responders who were burned, crushed, impaled, lacerated, blinded and traumatised. Many had life-threatening injuries. With access to new footage and testimony from those on the ground, 9/11: Emergency Room reveals how lives were saved. As the unfolding disaster effectively cut off downtown Manhattan from the rest of New York the tiny Downtown Hospital - more used to doing breast implants than major surgery - was faced with dozens of life and death operations. It also tells for the first time the story of the Dunkirk-style flotilla of boats that plied across the Hudson river to evacuate the seriously injured to safety.

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• 911
• September 11 2001
• WTC
• world trade center
• twin towers
• emergency first responders
• 911 documentary

[SuperCbr1979]

beautiful and touching, humans are mostly good by nature

[Akibatai00]

@SuperCbr1979

Despite the fact that humans are faulted, and a handful of us are capable of evil deeds, but I too believe the majority of us are good by nature. What happened in 9/11 is a testament to this fact.

[hazeljoy5]

thank you so much for uploading this video. the small hospital featured is New York Downtown Hospital,one i've proudly call my own since i started working there in 1991.

this is the first time i,ve seen this and it brought back a lot of memories..

[Bambambidan]

that'S soo sad :( ...

[me123321100]

omg this is so cruel it was such a buetiful day then bin laden had to ruin it....

†††††† god bless all survivors and doctors/firefighters †††††

[SithSereyPheap1]

Osama.The day was so beautiful,why ruin it ?

[airplanecrazy1989]

wow....and to think while all this was going on in the morning, I was in middle school going through a normal day as a 6th grader....

[tetsuo360]

This is truly one of the best documentaries i have ever seen in my life. Makes me proud to be apart of EMS(EMT-B) and cant wait to become paramedic.

[lisaannrn1]

As a former NYC medic and ER nurse, you have done an amazing job of showing the dedication and sacrifices made by my EMS brothers and sisters to fulfill our duty as best as possible, under conditions that had never been considered. Thank you for showing me, again, some of the friends I've lost doing what they loved !! As for Downtown Hospital and their nursing and medical staff- you all stepped up and did the impossible.

[eggiroth]

@hazeljoy5 I truly admire you for being so focused on that hellish day. Most people should have panicked and loose all sense of sensibility, but you kept your calm and did an outstanding job, right in the middle of this war zone. You truly are heroes.

[pwndutt]

hats off to all the brave men and women who saved precious lives that day

[firework60]

Thank you to the paramedics, nurses and Doctors........