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September 2014 | Volume 8 | Issue 1
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Unforgettable
Sarah Nafziger was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 and provided medical services at Ground Zero. Photo by Karim Shamsi-Basha.
By SYDNEY CROMWELL It was 8:46 a.m. On one side of the Brooklyn Bridge, Dr. Sarah Nafziger sat in a hotel conference room researching emergency medicine. On the other side, a plane had just slammed into the north
tower of the World Trade Center. The date was September 11, 2001. By the end of the day, Nafziger would see the smoking remains of ground zero from the back of a New York City ambulance. She has seen plenty of disaster areas as the Hoover
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Fire Department’s medical director, but none of them can compare to that terrifying day. Crumbling down Inside the hotel room, Nafziger had no idea at first that anything was
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amiss. A fellow researcher received a frantic pager alert, but no one thought it was serious until the hotel was evacuated. Nafziger found herself “shoulder to shoulder” with a sea of strangers, staring across the river at the burning towers and the fighter jets
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speeding over the city. “That’s when everything changed,” Nafziger said. Solemn and stunned, the crowd watched as the twin towers collapsed
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