Calls reveal chaos of 9/11

NEW YORK - A doomed fire official inside a command post at the World Trade Center reported a chaotic scene where communication between the responding units became increasingly difficult, according to recordings of emergency phone calls from Sept. 11 released Wednesday.

“We're in a state of confusion,” said Chief Dennis Dillon of Battalion 9, who died that day at ground zero. “We have no cell phone service anywhere because of the disaster. ... Bring all the additional handy talkies.”

Dillon, in the south tower, tried to get a rundown of all the companies dispatched to the burning 110-story buildings. The same mix of concern and confusion was evident in more of the 1,613 previously undisclosed emergency calls made amid the horror after the hijacked planes hit the trade center.