15 CDs of audio - released after a years-long court fight - posted for the first time
>>> In January 2002, the New York Times filed a public-records request for many documents relating to 9/11, including the recordings of 911 calls made by people inside the World Trade Center. (These calls were answered by fire, police, and emergency medical services operators.) The City of New York fought the release of these records, and finally in 2005 an appeals court ordered their release. (The court agreed with the city that for privacy reasons, the voices of the callers should be redacted.)
On March 31, 2006, the city released the audio (and transcripts), followed by supplemental releases on August 16 of that year and January 26, 2007. The releases were on CDs - a total of 15 - sent to major media outlets. Those outlets posted snippets of the recordings. This year, The Memory Hole 2 filed a request for all released CDs, and we've posted everything we received. This marks the first time that all of this historic audio is available online.
Related: The New York Times also forced the release of all Fire Department dispatch tapes from 9/11, and the original Memory Hole posted all 23 CDs. And you'll find 140 hours of NORAD's radio channels from 9/11 here.
Disc 1: "Transcripts of FDNY Audio CDs / Fire & EMS" - 14 PDFs in a zip file \ on the Internet Archive
Disc 2: "NYPD 911 Calls" - 47 audio tracks on the Internet Archive
Disc 3: "Fire - Part 1" - MP3 file
Disc 4: "Fire - Part 2" - MP3 file
Disc 5: "Fire - Part 3" - MP3 file
Disc 6: "Fire - Part 4" - MP3 file
Disc 7: "Fire - Part 5" - MP3 file
Disc 8: "Fire - Part 6" - MP3 file
Disc 9: "Fire - Part 7 through Part 9" - MP3 file
Disc 10: "EMS - Part 1" - MP3 file
Disc 11: "EMS - Part 2" - MP3 file
Disc 12: "EMS - Part 3" - MP3 file
Disc 13: "EMS - Part 4" - MP3 file
Disc 14: "2nd release - 8/16/2006 / WTC 911 & Dispatch Calls / Supplemental Production" - 84 tracks on the Internet Archive
Disc 15: "3rd release / 1/26/2007 / WTC 911 Police Telephone Calls / Supplemental Production / NYPD (19 Redacted Calls)" - 19 tracks on the Internet Archive
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