Waiting For a Signal
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
On a winter night nearly two years ago, an operator in the city’s emergency response center received a desperate call for help. “We’re taking in water….We’re on the Long Island Sound in a boat off the coast of City I … . Oh, my God, we’re going to die!” Then the operator lost the signal from the cell phone.
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