Spoiler: She Died
“Listen to me, ma’am,” the operator told a panicked Melissa Doi during a 20-minute phone call. “You’re not dying. You’re in a bad situation, ma’am.”
. . .
“I’m going to die, aren’t I?” Doi asked the dispatcher. “Please God, it’s so hot. I’m burning up.”
The operator encouraged Doi to keep her composure: “Ma’am, just stay calm for me, OK?”
The conversation was one of more 1,613 previously undisclosed emergency calls from the morning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They include the voices of at least 19 firefighters and two emergency medical technicians killed when the twin towers collapsed, although most of the calls are from firefighters asking dispatchers where they should report for duty, the Fire Department said.
- More 9/11 tapes: “I’m going to die, aren’t I?”
by Amy Westfeldt for The Seattle Times
2006-08-16
Just stay calm.
