For Witt, what she experienced as a reporter on 9/11 changed, for her, everything from the way she approaches her profession to how she would live life thereafter.
How did the day start for you? What was your role back then? And what’s the first thing you remember that let you know something was wrong?was based in 2001. I was driving into work, listening to the radio as usual, and saw the smoke coming from the first impact just as it was first being reported. I knew it was going to be the lead story on the broadcasts, though at the time it was initially believed to be some sort of commuter plane that had hit the .
I tried to focus on being as professional as I could be, knowing that people around the world were tuning in to get information. There are two specific memories I recall from that first dark overnight from the 11th into the 12th that will never leave me. I cry even today when I think about them. One was talking with four NYFD firefighters as they were coming off an exhausting shift digging in “The Pile.” I always say we ‘grow them bigger here in NYC.’ Our firefighters have a Herculean feel to them. But these four towering men had eyes that were haunted by what they had seen. I walked alongside them without my cameraman as it seemed like the right thing to not shove a camera in their faces. I asked if they could tell me anything I could report to our viewers. They stayed silent.
My other profound memory is seeing dozens of doctors, nurses, and medical personnel wearing their scrubs or white coats and their protective eye shields. They were lined up near the West Side Highway overlooking “The Pile,” waiting to spring into action to help anyone who got rescued. They stoically stood there all night. No one was ever brought out to them.I think my experience at Ground Zero made me truly understand the fragility of life for the first time.
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