Actor Denis Leary details chilling 9/11 experience that helped lead to TV hit ‘Rescue Me
Actor Denis Leary was unloading his hockey gear at Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers for a morning game when United Flt. 175 struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center 25 years ago.
“They turned the rink into a morgue, and they lined up all the ambulances,” Leary, 69, told The Post.
The heartbreaking scene was the beginning of a journey that led to Leary’s famous TV series “Rescue Me” – a defiantly politically incorrect dramedy around FDNY members ridden with Sept. 11 survivor’s guilt.
The New Englander star and his pick-up-hockey teammates from his production company had a clear, firsthand view of the terrorism and destruction unfurling that day from the West Side Highway.
Leary described seeing the “endless flow” of dust and cut-covered corporate workers fleeing uptown for hours.
