New 9/11 phone calls released

Today, the FDNY released 1,600 phone calls made to New York's emergency services on the morning of September 11, 2001. [New York Times] One of the calls released by the New York Times is the devastating call from Melissa Doi, who was trapped in the South Tower, to 911:

The recordings released today were edited to remove the voices of civilians calling the 911 system, as the court ordered on privacy grounds. As a result, those calls contain only the operators’ responses. Calls made by government employees — including firefighters — contain both sides of the conversation.

There is one exception: a call made by Melissa Doi, who was trapped in the south tower. It includes four minutes of her voice because it was introduced as evidence during the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. In the call, Ms. Doi tells the operator she believes she is dying, and asks the operator to call her mother. Although the call lasted some 24 minutes, only 4 minutes were put into evidence; the remaining 20 released today contain the 911 operator’s voice as she tries to console Ms. Doi, who apparently died while on the phone. [New York Times]

MP3: Melissa Doi's call to 9/11 [New York Times]
"In New 9/11 Tapes, Glimpses of Loss, Struggle, and Valor" [New York Times]