Staten Island Ferry Incident
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Damage done to the front stairway. This stairway allows passengers to go from the lower to the main deck.
Photo by FF Ben Cotten |
Hurst tools, air bags and hand tools were used to extricate the trapped passengers beneath sections of the ferry that had been torn open. FDNY Fire and EMS units worked side by side, administering lifesaving medical treatment and stabilizing, packaging and removing the injured from the vessel to awaiting ambulances. As the tracking Officer, Chief O'Brien worked with EMS Chief Ulyses Grant (now deceased) to keep the Incident Commander up to date with information about the injured and fatalities.
See "Staten Island Ferry Accident Prompts Large-Scale FDNY Response" by Deputy Chief Richard Howe, in the 1st/2004 issue of WNYF.
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