Click HERE to listen to the frightening radio transmissions of frantic Hatzolah members screaming for help as the World Trade Center collapsed on-top of them. Besides for a few non-life-threatening injuries not one of the hundreds of members at the scene was killed. Fast forward to 8:00 to hear the collapse of the first tower. The most frightening moment has got to be at 12:20 – when a member tells the dispatcher “tell my wife at least I said Shema.”
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As YW Editor can attest to, it is pure chassadim that the hatzala members walked out alive!
Kudos to the dispatcher! He kept his cool with everything going on!!
Shocking, horrifying, but a great revelation of the complete mesiras nefesh of hatzolah members.
I didn’t hear anyone say “tell my wife at least I said Shema”
Did anyone else?
Mi Ke’Amcha Yisroel, Goy Echad Ba’aretz!!!
All the people involved in Hatzolah do tremendous work.
All people who are married/ children of Hatzolah members sacrifice so much.
What an amazing group of people whose sole purpose is chessed!
What other group/ among the nations will stop working/ partying/ relaxing/ praying/ waking up in middle of the night, etc, at the drop of a hat to help someone they don’t know, will probably not see again ever, and don’t get paid or even expect to get paid for their services?
And the wives and children who understand that their Shabbos table/ their Pesach Seder/ their birthday party etc can be interrupted to save another Jewish neshoma?
May H’K’B’H’ protect them and all of klal yisroel!
i didnt hear it either.
amazing
I couldn’t hear anything :(( Is this website compatible with Safari or Mozilla (I’m on a Mac)
I didn’t hear anyone say “tell my wife at least I said Shema”
Did anyone else?
It’s at around 15:34
Dovid613
it was at 15:35.
Actually at 15:32
the tape was very crucial for the batei din to decide that families should sit shiva, etc. since they said they were in wtc on the tapes, they words of the dispatcher buildingdown (or whatever) meant those families should sit shiva
I heard it now. Thank you. Mi K’Amcha Yisrael.
Wow!!! Thank you YW for giving us an opportunity to hear this amazing recording. We all owe every Hatzolah member a great debt of gratitude for what they do for all of us EVERYDAY.
Also, its great hisorerus to hear prior to Rosh Hashana; its a real shot to the solar plexis – mi yichye…..
MiMedinat HaYam – What are you talking about?? B’H none of the Hatzoloh members lost their lives that day.
B’H all of the voices on those tapes are here to tell the tale.
to those who left comments 4 till 13 did tu even think of saying tehillim for the neshoma of the hatzolah mamber who was nifter yesterday. the levaya was going on as you were writing your comments. I just left the levaya. it was heartbreaking. may the neshoma of RL unit 51 have an aliya. that was his code name that was his life that was his legacy. live life for another TNTZBH
to chaim yankel
not hatzalah member b”h; i mean a number of yidden in wtc who called hatazalah instead of 911 (and instead of their families whom they couldnt get on reg phones)
To poster #14,
I appreciate the anguish you must be feeling at this time. I also hope that many people said Tehillim on behalf of the niftar.
I’m not sure you realize that your post seems to be of an accusing tone, accusing posters #4-13 that they didn’t refrain from posting to say Tehillim and should have. I know from personal experience that when I experience a loss and I’m in anguish, it’s strange to see that life is going on normally for everyone else. When my son was in the hospital and we were told he would probably die, I remember looking out the window at the children riding their scooters in the distance and wondering if their parents realized what they had. When my father died and when I lost other relatives, I definitely found it strange and painful that life went on all around me and nobody seemed to see my pain.
I didn’t, however, expect everyone around me to stop their lives because mine had come to a screeching halt. Likewise, I don’t think that posters #4-13 should have refrained from posting during the levaya. If they were aware that that was the time of the levaya, it would of course have been nice to stop whatever they were doing to say a kapitel of Tehillim, or at least have him in mind and say a little tefillah for him. But I don’t think they need to refrain from posting here or continuing their everyday life.
As special as the niftar was, the sad reality is that there is probably a levaya going on at just about every moment, somewhere in the world. That thought should move us to teshuvah and compassion, but not to paralysis. We should continue our lives as normal.
I’m sure the niftar was very special. I will say Tehillim for him myself.
A gut gebench’t yar.
to poster 16 I’m very sorry tha you took my post in that way. I surely did not mean to accuse merely to make known.
Only through Chasdei Hashem were all members able to get out alive
Pi nistar,
Have a happy sweet new year!
sharpest nail and everybody else 2 u 2