RESCUE CREWS RUSH TO AID SURVIVORS, ONLY TO FIND NONE.(MAIN)

Byline: DALE RUSSAKOFF Washington Post

EAST MORICHES -- With disaster came the inevitable rush of adrenaline, the hopes -- however unreasonable -- that somewhere amid the flames, carnage and horror, someone was waiting to be rescued.

From the moments after TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean until early Thursday, those hopes animated people across eastern Long Island.

Dr. Lester Kallus rushed to State University at Stony Brook Medical Center to prepare his massive trauma center for a night of medical heroics. Hundreds of volunteer firemen streaked to a Coast Guard station here. And Michael O'Reilly, a marine rescue specialist, raced in …