Captain John “Jay” Jonas, in his 20-plus years of committing his life for others in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), came across the toughest; most tiresome day of his entire career, September 11th, 2001. When the four successfully hijacked airplanes scattered throughout the United States, two planes targeted the two tallest buildings in New York City at the time. When the first plane hit the North tower, Jay Jonas and his group of five other Firefighters, nicknamed the Dragon Fighter because of their base’s location in Chinatown. When Jonas and his crew sped to a “Ten-sixty” catastrophic fire, they were astonished at the site of an impact fire, ignited from plane fuel, on a 99 floor building. As they sprinted back and forth from their
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From the tenth floor, Jonas could see many more living yet suffering victims. Two of Jonas’ men were separated from the group, as they were escorting the found survivors as the other four kept going up the stairway. On the eighteenth floor they found a 59-year-old, heavy-set woman, a bookkeeper named Josephine Harris, who is in immense pain and met her physical capabilities. At first, Josephine said to go on without her; but they refused to give up on her and said “We can’t abandon her.” Butler, the strongest man in the unit and Billy began to carry her down the eighteen flights, but her leg pain started to become unbearable. Jonas knew this was bad, Josephine began to sob and said she cannot go on, but Jonas used quick thinking and decided an office chair will be of use. However, there was no suitable chair, so they had to manually drag her down the stairs, they managed to do it, but when she going to open the stairwell exit door, it would not budge. As of this point, The southern building was already depleted, despite being struck an half-hour …show more content…
While gagging from the dust and smoke, Jonas tried to look through all the building revenue and realized that the entire crew, and Josephine survived. Through some miracle the whole North tower got disintegrated besides the bottom of stairwell B. Therefore, even though Jonas did risky decisions and actions for other people, he, and his whole crew survived the fire and debris through some
From the tenth floor, Jonas could see many more living yet suffering victims. Two of Jonas’ men were separated from the group, as they were escorting the found survivors as the other four kept going up the stairway. On the eighteenth floor they found a 59-year-old, heavy-set woman, a bookkeeper named Josephine Harris, who is in immense pain and met her physical capabilities. At first, Josephine said to go on without her; but they refused to give up on her and said “We can’t abandon her.” Butler, the strongest man in the unit and Billy began to carry her down the eighteen flights, but her leg pain started to become unbearable. Jonas knew this was bad, Josephine began to sob and said she cannot go on, but Jonas used quick thinking and decided an office chair will be of use. However, there was no suitable chair, so they had to manually drag her down the stairs, they managed to do it, but when she going to open the stairwell exit door, it would not budge. As of this point, The southern building was already depleted, despite being struck an half-hour …show more content…
While gagging from the dust and smoke, Jonas tried to look through all the building revenue and realized that the entire crew, and Josephine survived. Through some miracle the whole North tower got disintegrated besides the bottom of stairwell B. Therefore, even though Jonas did risky decisions and actions for other people, he, and his whole crew survived the fire and debris through some