 Nearly nine hours of emergency calls, some made from inside the doomed World Trade Center, were released by the city Friday, detailing the responses of 911 operators to frantic callers caught in the chaos of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack."You saw an explosion at the twin towers?" asks an operator receiving the first call on Fire Department transcripts. The time was 8:47 a.m., one minute after the first plane hit.The words of the operators -- but not the callers -- were released after The New York Times and a group of victims' relatives sued to get them. An appeals court ruled last year that families should have the option to release the tapes made by 28 callers who could be identified....
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