Former Darwin journalist , the late Peter Blake , seen above , centre, working as a bookie at the Fannie Bay Racetrack , was employed as a copywriter on the Murdoch New York Post the day of the attack on the Trade Centre .
Living in Manhattan , he was out walking , with his back to the Trade Centre, when he became aware that something momentous had happened.
Against the tide of frightened people trying to flee the city, Blake made his way towards the dramatic , unfolding drama .
Ordered by a police officer to turn round and head away with the flow , Pete stopped in his tracks. However, he walked backwards, so as not to attract more police attention. He was soon swallowed up by the wave of humanity . Then he resumed his direct race to the New York Post
There he spent several hectic days covering the monstrous event .
In Darwin , Peter had been the founding editor of the independent Darwin Star, the name inspired by the Hong Kong Star on which Blake had worked. He also edited and did the layout for two satirical publications ,Troppo and the Fannie Bay Whisper, a distant relative of Sydney's Kings Cross Whisper.
On September 10,2011, the Northern Territory News ran a feature, part reproduced above, by Paul Toohey , about Territory firemen, in New York for the World Police and Firefighters Games, photographed at Ground Zero. They were, from the left , Peter Simon, Edmund Flint and David Lines .
