Ronald Nullet oral history interview conducted by Julie Broihier, December 6, 2010

About

Ronald was born in 1941 in the Bronx. He went to public school, worked for Mad magazine, and then joined the Navy (1958-1962 on the U.S.S. Canberra). He became a steamfitter apprentice in 1963 and worked in the industry until his retirement in 2003. Ronald was working as a steamfitter foreman on 9/11. He was in charge of twenty steamfitters that day and had started work at 6:30 a.m. on one of the buildings in the lower Manhattan area. He saw the first plane hit the tower and saw flames and people leaping from the buildings. Ronald saw the second plane hit the tower--the plane's engine fell by Church and Murray Street, hitting some pedestrians on the street. He sent his workers home, started walking up to West Broadway, and saw FBI agents who asked him where he was going. They escorted him and four other steamfitters across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan. While they were on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, they saw the towers fall. It took Ronald four hours to get to the LIE, and when he got home, his wife was still at work at Stony Brook University Hospital (as it was turned into a triage center for WTC victims). He remembers that he couldn't sleep that night.

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Language

English

Country

United States

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