9/11 - The first responders

Some of the people who risked their lives in the first hours and days after the World Trade Center was struck ten years ago have been sharing their memories with SBS's Brian Thomson.

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Published 9 September 2011 3:09pm

Updated 24 February 2015 5:07pm

By SBS Staff

Source: SBS

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Brian Thomson is a senior correspondent with SBS World News Australia, on assignment in New York City for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Brian's been out and about in the city speaking to some of the people who became known as the 'early responders' - the people who risked their lives to help others on that fateful day ten years ago.

Firemen, a policeman, a council worker and someone working in construction at the time shared their memories with him.

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