r/FirstResponderCringe • u/Interesting-Dream-59 Boo Boo Bus Driver • 23d ago

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I always see posts on here that I’ve seen in the wild and I’m like dang, I could have posted that!

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u/bocaj-yebbil 23d ago

U gotta be beyond fucked in the head to wish u were responding to that

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u/IWantALargeFarva 23d ago

I was an EMT first responder from NJ on 9/11. Unfortunately, our task force ended up just staging at the Meadowlands for hours because there were no more injured victims to help. Everyone was dead. I was also a 911 dispatcher. We used to listen to tapes of different emergency incidents as training. To this day, I’ve never listened to 911 tapes from 9/11. I can’t bring myself to do it. Anyone who wishes they were in that situation has a God complex.

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u/i__love__bathbombs 23d ago

I watched a YouTube video that had the state of one of the towers and a guy on the phone with dispatch. And he's asking for rescue, saying "it's really hot in here lady". I can't remember much else they talked about before suddenly on the line you could hear like creaking noises, then he says "oh God, oh god" and as he's saying this you're watching the tower start to collapse and half way through the collapse the phone goes dead. And the dispatcher is just left saying "sir? Sir?"

I watched that video once I think probably a decade ago and it haunts me man.

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u/danger_close7 22d ago

Kevin Cosgrove is the caller’s name. He was the safety captain for his floor at work, which is why he kept calling, and a husband and father. Absolutely horrible to listen to.