{"id":26318,"date":"2023-09-11T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26318"},"modified":"2023-09-11T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:19:17","slug":"i-worked-as-fireman-on-9-11-we-knew-terror-attack-was-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/world-news\/i-worked-as-fireman-on-9-11-we-knew-terror-attack-was-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I worked as fireman on 9\/11 \u2013 we knew terror attack was coming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City firefighter who was part of the heartbreaking search and rescue effort on 9\/11 said he knew an attack was going to come.<\/p>\n<p>Niels Jorgensen was with the FDNY for 22 years and, as luck would have it, was on his day off on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>But like every single one of his colleagues he rushed to Ground Zero the moment he heard about the unfolding tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: 9\/11: Incredible story of man who survived collapse of the World Trade Centre<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Niels told the Soft White Underbelly channel that there had long been a suspicion among FDNY firefighters that the disaster was coming.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24918393.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/2_September-11-Terrorist-Attacks-on-the-World-Trade-Centre.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were waiting for it,\u201d he explained. \u201cIn the late Nineties there was an FDNY training manual with a sketch of the Twin Towers, and it had a target on one of the towers, and it said \u2018Not a matter of IF, but a matter of WHEN. Be Ready. Be trained\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid they know this was coming? Us guys that were there in 93 [for the February 26 World Trade Centre bomb attack] we kind of always had this in the back of our mind\u2026 that they\u2019re not going to give this up. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;They\u2019re going to come and get us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30912340.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_I-worked-for-the-New-York-Fire-Department-we-knew-911-was-coming.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30697648.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458\/0_I-should-have-died-on-911-suicide-flight-but-was-saved-by-a-story.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p> &apos;Terrorist put AK-47 to my head on flight but I survived \u2013\u00a0years later he told me why&apos;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dozens of his friends died that day. He recalled, in particular, seeing Father Mychal Judge praying at the base of the towers as the rescue effort went on around him.<\/p>\n<p>The well-loved NYFD chaplain known as \u201cFather Mike\u201d was later classified as Victim 0001 \u2013 the first official casualty of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFather Judge raced in there to pray, as the chaos of the towers was going on,\u201d Niels continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a video of him in a famous documentary: he\u2019s in there and he\u2019s just praying to God for everyone to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30912346.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Rescue-workers-search-through-the-rubble.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30278723.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458\/0_MAINSOCIAL.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p> Pilot blamed for fireball crash that killed 41 to be sent to grim Russian penal colony<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But \u201cFather Mike\u201d ended up losing his life that day, along with some 2,976 others. \u201cHe ended up, from the debris coming down around him, having a heart attack,\u201d Niels added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as they carried him out, later on, he was actually hit with more d\u00e9bris. They think he died of a heart attack as that debris crashed next to him<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe died tending to his flock, which was the FDNY\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30912339.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_I-worked-for-the-New-York-Fire-Department-we-knew-911-was-coming.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article29514857.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458\/1_JS261378650_Main.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p> Mystery surrounds airliner &apos;deliberately flown into a mountain&apos; by pilots<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Niels said his dad, who had previously worked on the Staten Island Ferry, was called out to help with the shipment of bodies from Ground Zero.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe were assuming they\u2019d be bringing out hundreds and hundreds of bodies, but it never happened because there were no bodies to pull out\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually there were some bodies that were intact, that were found after hours and days and weeks of digging, but half of the 2,977 souls that were lost have never been identified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30912356.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Rescue-Workers-Search-Through-WTC-Rubble.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28703965.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458\/1_MAIN_-Kechi-Okwuchi-.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p> Badly-burned survivor of plane crash that killed 108 has incredible transformation<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThey were\u2026 not fully intact.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>There were only around 200 bodies retrieved from the wreckage in one piece. \u201cIt\u2019s still haunting for those families,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One of those bodies was his close friend and colleague John, whose wife was pregnant at the time of his death. <\/p>\n<p>John was only recovered on Christmas Eve, after months of heartbreaking toil for Niels and his colleagues who were excavating the site.<\/p>\n<p>He said they could hear the muffled sound of other firefighters\u2019 personal alarms beeping beneath the rubble as they dug in the forlorn hope of singing a survivor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30912354.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_New-York-City-Commemorates-20th-Anniversary-Of-911-Terror-Attacks.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28519163.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458\/0_FILES-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-NETHERLANDS-CONFLICT-MH17.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p> Twisted MH17 ringleader invented &apos;bloodless corpses&apos; conspiracy theory to hide truth<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Niels and his colleagues were working it was \u201clike a war movie\u201d he said, with fighter jets making constant low passes over the city in anticipation of follow-up attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Mercifully, those attacks never came..<\/p>\n<p><b><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i>To get more stories from Daily Star delivered straight to your inbox sign up to one of our free newsletters<\/i> here .<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/i-worked-fireman-911--30912294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City firefighter who was part of the heartbreaking search and rescue effort on 9\/11 said he knew an attack was going to come. 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