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Lending Helping Hands

In the afiermath of terrorism, local professionals rush to do their part.

RONELLE GRIER
Special to the Jewish News

INT hen Stuart Rich, a
reservist in the Oakland
County Sheriff's
Department, learned of
the attack on the World Trade Center,
he had "no other thought" but to vol-
unteer his services immediately, paus-
ing only long enough to kiss his family
on the way out the door of his
Farmington Hills home.
A licensed pilot, Rich was assigned
to the team transporting Oakland
County Sheriff Michael J. Bouchard
to New York. The plane also brought
more supplies for the deputies already
at the site of the terrorist attack. Rich
was the team's pilot.
"We didn't know what to expect,
but what we saw once we got there

took all my thoughts away," he said.
were wonderful," said Rich, 44.
"I've been a paramedic for 20 years;
"When we went into a restaurant dur-
I've never seen anything like this.
ing our breaks, we'd get standing ova-
There was no way we couldn't stay
tions."
and pitch in."
Rich's wife, Kim, said she stayed
Working 12-hour shifts, Rich and
glued to her television set during his
his team joined with rescue workers
absence. Although she worried about
from all over the country, removing
his safety, she is proud of her hus-
debris via "bucket brigades," supervis-
band's involvement.
ing dog teams and transporting equip-
In his professional life, Rich is the
ment. The team stayed a week.
owner of Ameri-Alarm, a security sys-
His group was headquartered in 2
tem company headquartered in
Financial Center, adjacent to the
Southfield. He also is a lieutenant
World Trade Center. Rich says televi-
reserve in the Wayne County Sheriff's
sion footage didn't do justice to the
Department, and a member of Temple
devastation he saw close-up.
Israel.
Though he worked in the
Stuart Rich of
Rich said he will never
"bucket brigade" that moved
Farmington Hills,
forget the throngs of peo-
hand-dug debris, he didn't
an Oakland County ple crowding the rescue
find any survivors or even see Sheriffs reservist,
site barricades, holding up
any bodies.
helped rescuers at
pictures of their missing
"The people of New York
Ground Zero.
loved ones, hoping for