Courage and Devotion: Paramedic heroes survive Sept. 11 and beyond
description: [html document, 1199SEIU News, November 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4375] St. Johns Hospital paramedics James Dobson and Marvin Bethea spent September 11 bringing people to safety from the streets surrounding Ground Zero, and suffered difficult aftereffects themselves.

Farewell To Our Sister
description: [html document, Dennis Rivera, President, 1199SEIU News, November, 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4373] The President of 1199/SEIU recounts the funeral of 1199 member Kathy Nguyen who was killed by anthrax spores of unknown origin, and discusses the broader significance of her death.

Grief, Pride and Hope
description: [html document, Dennis Rivera, President, 1199SEIU News, October, 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3968] Comments from the President of the New York 1199/SEIU union on the meaning of the tragedy for 1199 workers.

Heroes in the Face of Horror: St Vincents members on the frontline of rescue effort
description: [html document, 1199SEIU News, October 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3965] Profiles the experiences of 1199 members who were among the first to respond to the WTC disaster from their posts at St. Vincents Hospital and NYU Downtown Hospital.

Looking back at disaster
description: [html document, 1199SEIU News, April, 2002, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=5398] Follow-up with two 1199 members, Bill Amaniera, a St. Vincents Hospital EMT and Juana Lomi, a NYU Downtown Hospital paramedic, who helped rescue people at Ground Zero during the first hours of the WTC disaster.

On the Edge of Hell
description: [html document, 1199SEIU News, October 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3964] The scene at NYU Downtown Hospital in the first hours of the WTC disaster.

SEIU Grieves for Lost Members
description: [html document, 1199SEIU News, October 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3966] One 1199 Emergency Medical Technician, David Marc Sullins, and 64 SEIU members, are listed among dead and missing from the WTC disaster.

The Long Road Back
description: [html document, 1199SEIU News, December 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4645] The widow and children of firefighter Shawn Edward Powell, Jean Powell, is a Certified Nursing Assistant and 1199 member. She recounts her struggle to rebuild her life in the weeks after September 11.

The ones left behind
description: [html document, 1199SEIU News, November 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4376] Co-workers of Cabrini EMT Marc Sullins, missing in the WTC disaster, recount his last day.

https://www.911digitalarchive.org/items/show/2849
description: More photos from 1999SEIU News As the WTC attacks unfolded and in the minutes and hours that followed, 1199 News photographer Jim Tynan covered the scene outside St. Vincent's Hospital. He has donated the photographs below to the archive. Tynan1 While dust-covered rescue worker stands by, emergency workers attend to a man in the back of an ambulence. Tynan2 Dust radiates in all directions as the remaining tower falls, seen from Greenwich Village. Tynan3 Doctors and hospital workers at St. Vincent's Hospital care for a man arriving on a stretcher from the WTC attack. Tynan4 "1199ers at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan were among the first teams of healthcare workers to care for the injured on Sept. 11." 1199 SEIU News, October, 2001, cover photo. Tynan5 "Transporter Cheryl Farrell (second from left with stretcher) and CAN Audrey Vaughn (third from left with stretcher) rush WTC victim into St. Vincent's emergency room. "When I way what happened I was devastated," says Farrell. "I started getting together wheelchairs and anything else I could think of. Even now I can't believe it really happened. You see these kinds of things in movies, never in real life." 1199 SEIU News, October, 2001, pages 12-13. Tynan6 "Doctors at St. vincent's look on as WTC collapses." 1199 SEIU News, October, 2001, page 7. Tynan7 The first, south tower collapses in a cloud of smoke, seen from Greenwich village in Manhattan. Tynan8 As the towers disapear under a cloud of dust, an ambulance races south towards the attack site. Tynan9 Hospital workers accompany a woman on a stretcher outside St. Vincent Hospital's emergency room. Tynan10 Shock and exhaustion on his face, a policemen is wheeled from a ambulance. Tynan11 "Victims began to arive at St. Vincent's just minutes after the attack." 1199 SEIU News, October, 2001, page 6. Tynan12 The fireball of the second plane's impact, seen through the trees and buildings of a New York City neighborhood. Tynan13 Chairs ready to receive the injured on …