A short tribute to the volunteer civilian flotilla that helped 500,000 people get home across the water from Lower Manhattan after the attacks on the World Trade Center
Evacuation of 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan on 9/11 by boat
Following the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, a problem faced by many New Yorkers was how to get home.
I remember pictures of people walking across bridges and other images of mass migration as people tried to get home.
The boat lift of half a million people from Lower Manhattan was done by a volunteer civilian flotilla that just showed up when the call went out. The flotilla just materialized when the Coast Guard put out a Marine Assistance Broadcast asking any vessels that could help, to please report to Lower Manhattan to help evacuate stranded commuters.
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