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Transcript of Final Calls From WTC Released

HeadlineAug 29, 2003

1,800 pages of transcripts were released yesterday that capture the last telephone calls and police radio transmissions from inside the World Trade Center towers before the towers collapsed on Sept. 11 Among the comments recorded were: “Get outside! Get the hell outside!” “They’re jumping out of Building One on the south side.” One Port Authority police officer said as he prepared a rescue mission. “We’ve got people in there. We are going to go get them. I want everybody over here. We are going to do this right!”

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