The Story
On the morning of September 11, 2001, while firefighters climbed the steps of the World Trade Center, New York City Paramedics were on the street below treating the wounded.

When the Twin Towers finally collapsed it was the job of these "street doctors" to keep the injured alive.

Manhattan Medics, a first hand account of the 11th of September, also depicts the day-to-day lives of paramedics in America's largest city.


Description
Manhattan Medics begins with the days just before the attack on the World Trade Center and follows a paramedic crew stationed at St. Vincent's Hospital in lower Manhattan. Their tour had just ended at 8:00 a.m. and Frank Rella heads home as the first tower is struck. Rushing back to the city, he arrives to see the plane strike the second tower. At Ground Zero, he and his partner are deployed in front of Building Seven, whose 47 stories are engulfed in flames.

This first-hand account of the 11th of September also depicts the day-to-day lives of medics in America's largest city. Though focused on the 9/11 attack, the book is a picture of medics responding to emergencies, sometimes putting their lives on the line.

On the following Thanksgiving, Rella and his partner save a man in the projects from bleeding to death, and on New Year's Eve is caught in a gun battle on the Lower East Side while trying to rescue a wounded man.

One of the few first-hand accounts of 9/11, Manhattan Medics is the only book written by a paramedic. His stories have a sense of realism that could not be offered by an author obtaining second-hand information. It is filled with real­life dialogue and medical lingo that is not only easily understood but reveals the hearts of these heroic people.