Amid Rubble, A Bloody Face Spied in Time He was a few blocks away, at the 25th Precinct station in East Harlem, getting his day going, when he heard the jarring explosion. Officer Paul Pastorini immediately knew something was terribly wrong. Noise like that, well, it shouldn’t happen. He and several other police officials ran to addresses that had been 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue and had become flaming piles of wreckage. Crumpled buildings that had to have people buried in them. It was just after 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. They were among the first of the scores of emergency personnel to arrive. At once, they noticed a van stuck in the rubble, a passenger trapped inside. As they struggled to free the person, Officer Pastorini looked up and spied a bloody face and hand poking out of an imposing mound of debris. Along with two other police officers and a civilian, he scrambled up six feet of broken building. They discovered a boy wrapped in a blanket and curled on top of a mattress. It struck them that he must have been asleep when everything around him came apart. The blast that collapsed two adjacent five-story buildings on Wednesday morning, killing at least eight people, brought the [...] newsnyork/amid-rubble-a-bloody-face-spied-in-time/
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 04:01:43 +0000
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