09/11/2026
A Big Shout Out of Thanks to Mark Mandracchia, Joe Casey on that Horrific Day.
Ambucar Ambulance Service (officially Amb-U-Car Ambulance & Wheelchair Service) played an immediate, critical frontline role on September 11, 2001.
Based directly out of Jersey City, our personnel rushed to action to manage one of the largest triage and evacuation points of the entire disaster.
Our response on that day included:
Treating Evacuees at the Jersey City Waterfront: Following the plane impacts, thousands of dust-covered and injured people fled Lower Manhattan by boarding commercial ferries, tugboats, and police vessels.
Ambucar crews converged at the Exchange Place Pier on the Hudson River alongside other local first responders.
They rapidly built a massive triage operation to treat people coming off the boats suffering from broken bones, severe head lacerations, smoke inhalation, and toxic dust exposure.
Crossing into Ground Zero: As the day progressed, several Ambucar EMTs and paramedics personally crossed the river into Lower Manhattan to provide medical aid directly at the World Trade Center Site.
Tragically, Lieutenant Robert D. Cirri, Sr. and Officer David P. LeMagne—the two men you asked about—were both Ambucar Ambulance EMT employees. While they were also sworn police officers with the Port Authority,
they were deeply embedded members of the Ambucar family.
They lost their lives when they rushed into the North Tower to evacuate civilians before it collapsed.
