The public commiserated, came together, and formed one big family when the problems occurred. Everyone did whatever was possible to help those who were injured, traumatized, and directly affected. People donated pints of blood, gave supplies to the emergency workers, and did whatever they needed to do, (Bates, A9). Officials early in the day warned of blood shortages and called for donations. Thousands of people lined up outside hospitals and Red Cross centers to donate blood. Later in the day, some were turned away from lines that sometimes were two city blocks long. (HTTP.//www.abcnews.com).
The emergency workers who were rushing to the scene had only one thought on their minds: "get everyone out as quickly as possible and help anyone in need", (Paisner, 146). No amount of training or experience could fully prepare the emergency professionals for what they were about to encounter. These brave people could not have anticipated or expected the devastation that they faced. .
A person's will to survive was a powerful factor in the September 11th events. A certain reaction in the brain makes human beings feel overwhelmingly compelled to survive in moments of shock and crisis. People tend to subconsciously act on instinct and become driven by endorphins and adrenaline in critical moments. The body and mind seem to have a natural response to high intensity emergency situations and individuals can somehow pull themselves together to act accordingly. People sometimes survive because of a little area in their heads that enable them to act and react under drastic circumstances, and causes them to think that they can get through whatever it is that is challenging them, (Noyce, 45). A will to survive can be a pervasive force for emergency courses of action and decision-making under extreme pressures and circumstances. Commander Picciotto experienced this when he himself was in the second tower as it was hit and collapsed.