From the ashes

AUBURN - It was all a blur. The news, the call, the drive, the muster, and now - perhaps 12 hours after hijacked jets had destroyed the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan - Sharon McLean was lost somewhere in the south Bronx, looking for a bridge in the dark over the Harlem River.

"It was the spookiest thing," McLean said. "There was no one on the streets."

Normally, this would be cause for some anxiety. But on Sept. 11, 2001, no one was allowing a Red Cross van to stay lost for long.