Collapse of the North Tower
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Collapse of the World Trade Center (North Tower)
Victims
Christopher Hanley
Christopher Hanley called 9-1-1 from the 106th floor of the North Tower.
Witnesses
- Kelly Badillo, elevator operator
- FDNY Batallion Chief, John A. Jonas was among 20 survivors that survived the collapse of the North Tower.
- Anne Prosser, at 8:45, she rode the elevator to the 90th floor of Tower 1, to her office. As the doors opened, she heard what seemed like an explosion. She didn't know it, but the first plane had just hit several floors above her. "I got thrown to the ground before I got to our suite," she said. "I crawled inside. Not everybody was at work." She said she tried to leave but there was so much debris in the air she couldn't breathe. Port Authority rescuers finally steered her to a stairway.
- George W. Sleigh, a naval architect with the American Bureau of Shipping, escaped from the 91st floor. "It took about an hour to get to the bottom of the building. Once I got out of the stairwell, I realized what a devastating thing this was, I could look out on the plaza, and there were piles of rubble everywhere and fires burning."[1]
- A survivor from a floor in the 80s: "The entire corridor became an inferno outside our front door. Smoke began to enter our office. There was also debris falling... The fire on the corridor was at least 10 ft high, and it ran the ... good length of the corridor. Then I saw a fireball come down the elevator shaft and blew the elevator doors. The fireball came right at me, it was a really bright color."[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Eyewitness to history, Akron Beacon Journal
- ↑ (2005) "Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communications", Final Reports of the Federal Building and Fire Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).