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The surreal nature of Sept. 11, 2001, for those living and working in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area at the time still lingers for many.
Mike Grierson recalled working with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue in Rockville when he learned about the attacks in New York City and nearby in northern Virginia at the Pentagon.
“As things unfolded we were all trying to follow the news agencies,” said Grierson, who today is Calvert County’s emergency management division chief. “Cell phones weren’t working. We were all getting calls from family. It was difficult to communicate that day. We had folks who kept trying to report in.”
The discovery that a chain of terrorist attacks could expose a “communication shortfall” was a sobering development born out of the tragedy…
