Tony Bonfiglio
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On the way there, I hear the first tower collapses.
So I'm like, oh, I'm cursing.
I'm like, motherfuckers.
My Dominican guy don't speak English.
He doesn't really hear, but he knows something bad.
He knows the towers.
So now I get another 20 minutes, 10 minutes later or whatever, and I hear the second tower come down and I was out of light.
I put my foot on the brake and I just started crying.
I was on the steering wheel because I knew how many guys just got killed, you know, from this whole deal.
Oh, I was crushed.
You just knew the way it works, you know.
They called in everything once those planes hit.
No, well, now I race to the rabbi's house.
I throw the ladders, the paint.
I knock on the rabbi's door.
I says, listen, rabbi, I'm a fireman from New York City.
I got to go to the Trade Center.
I knew he knew it because he had a TV on inside.
So he's like, OK.
I said, Roberto's going to take care of everything.