# Tyree G. Bacon oral history interview conducted by Melodie Guerrera, August 6, 2010

Tyree was a senior court officer and Emergency Medical Technician on 9/11/2001. As a Senior Court Officer, he worked at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan. His wife was serving as a police officer in Greenwich Village at that time. He was in the 14th-floor locker room of the building when he heard the first plane fly by. He ran to the roof of the building and saw the gaping hole on the side of one of the WTC towers. He remembers being "awestruck" by the devastation. Tyree knew the Emergency Medical Services system would be overwhelmed, so he grabbed oxygen masks and ran to the vicinity of the World Trade Center. He partnered with his colleague, Tommy, and grabbed air packs from his EMT truck. Tyree recalls going to Church Street and seeing wreckage from the plane, some of which was debris and some human remains. He saw injured people, such as one woman "clearly having a heart attack" and a gentleman with a "severe head laceration." Tyree and his fellow court officers, Tommy, Captain Harry, and Mitch, who was also trained as an EMS, went into Building 5 of the Trade Center, going against a stream of evacuees, and ended up in the mall under Tower Two.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 47 min
- By: Guerrera, Melodie
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2015048_039/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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