Blackout

00:00:47 KEVIN ZRALY: Imagine yourself on top of One World Trade Center,

00:02:53 JONATHAN MAHLER: It's like an orgy of violence, arson, and insanity.

00:05:04 And then another line

00:07:12 and, uh, we're like, "Wow, what's happening?"

00:09:06 Some of them, obviously, are just volunteers,

00:11:06 because if they did, they didn't tell us.

00:13:01 "Jack, you take the part from Long Island Lighting,

00:15:19 PURNICK: I remember the blackout of '65 as almost being fun.

00:17:32 And by 1977, I mean, all of this

00:19:34 MAHLER: In 1975, New York City was on the brink of bankruptcy,

00:21:41 ERNESTO QUIÑONEZ: When a population is neglected for so long,

00:23:41 could catch on fire.

00:26:04 It went from being lights to being looting.

00:28:35 He says, "Okay, come, come, I'll show you.

00:31:03 I couldn't do anything about it so I just was watching.

00:33:14 After a while there was what can you do?

00:35:59 GUS ENGELMAN: George, I just had a Con Ed spokesman on the phone

00:37:53 But they sat in their hot apartments

00:39:47 No one can stop you.

00:42:10 It's got smoke.

00:44:41 And somehow, I think,

00:46:17 We lost, I think it was...

00:48:44 REPORTER: It was a night of terror that lasted for 25 hours.

00:51:03 But this is always there as an example of what could happen.