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Authors: Jim Dwyer,Kevin Flynn
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Dave Vera
(left)
, a telecommunications technician for Euro Brokers, cleared people from the 84th floor in the south tower, but would later send word by walkie-talkie that he needed help himself. His call was heard by his friend and colleague, Jose Marrero
(right)
, who had urged dozens of people to leave the 84th floor and had led them downstairs. He then headed back up to help Vera. (JANICE BROOKS/EURO BROKERS INC.; JERROLD BANKS/EURO BROKERS INC.)
(left)
, a telecommunications technician for Euro Brokers, cleared people from the 84th floor in the south tower, but would later send word by walkie-talkie that he needed help himself. His call was heard by his friend and colleague, Jose Marrero
(right)
, who had urged dozens of people to leave the 84th floor and had led them downstairs. He then headed back up to help Vera. (JANICE BROOKS/EURO BROKERS INC.; JERROLD BANKS/EURO BROKERS INC.)
Roko Camaj, a window washer, had keys to the roof of the south tower, but he told colleagues that he could not get there from the 105th floor, perhaps because the electric doors did not work correctly after the plane’s impact. (ANGEL FRANCO/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
Jan Demczur, another window washer, was trapped with five other men in an elevator that was stuck on the 50th floor of the north tower. They used his squeegee, the only tool available, to begin clawing out of the elevator. (JUSTIN LANE/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
Greg Trapp, who had moved to New York to act and make films, worked as a security guard and was stationed on the 78th floor of the north tower. He led a group from the 84th floor to the stairway, then waited for instructions.
(MARTIN MEYERS PHOTOGRAPHY/COURTESY OF GREG TRAPP)
Many of the people who escaped from the north tower fled through the mezzanine, past windows that looked out onto smoldering debris that filled the plaza. (JOHN LABRIOLA)
NYPD Officer John Perry
(above left)
was turning in his retirement papers when the first plane struck. He asked for his badge back and ran to help. He joined up with his friend Capt. Tim Pearson
(right)
, directing people in the north tower mezzanine toward the escalators that would lead them to the concourse and safety. (NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT)
(above left)
was turning in his retirement papers when the first plane struck. He asked for his badge back and ran to help. He joined up with his friend Capt. Tim Pearson
(right)
, directing people in the north tower mezzanine toward the escalators that would lead them to the concourse and safety. (NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT)
Sgt. John McLoughlin
(right)
and Officer Will Jimeno were among a group of Port Authority police officers charged with transporting a cart filled with emergency equipment through the shopping concourse beneath the twin towers, to make sure their fellow officers had the proper gear. (PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY)
(right)
and Officer Will Jimeno were among a group of Port Authority police officers charged with transporting a cart filled with emergency equipment through the shopping concourse beneath the twin towers, to make sure their fellow officers had the proper gear. (PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY)
From left,
Sgt. Andrew Wender, Sgt. Al Moscola, and Capt. Joseph Baccellieri in the locker room at the Court Officers Academy several blocks from the World Trade Center. The court officers were in the locker room on the morning of September 11 and ran to the towers to help out. In the final minutes of the crisis, they would see firefighters sitting on the 19th floor of the north tower, apparently unaware that the other building had fallen. (ANDREA MOHIN/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
Sgt. Andrew Wender, Sgt. Al Moscola, and Capt. Joseph Baccellieri in the locker room at the Court Officers Academy several blocks from the World Trade Center. The court officers were in the locker room on the morning of September 11 and ran to the towers to help out. In the final minutes of the crisis, they would see firefighters sitting on the 19th floor of the north tower, apparently unaware that the other building had fallen. (ANDREA MOHIN/
THE NEW YORK TIMES
)
Battalion Chief Orio J. Palmer
(facing camera)
confers with Deputy Chief Peter Hayden in the north tower lobby before heading over to the south tower, where he would lead a company of firefighters up the stairs to the impact zone.
(facing camera)
confers with Deputy Chief Peter Hayden in the north tower lobby before heading over to the south tower, where he would lead a company of firefighters up the stairs to the impact zone.
(AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS/ GOLDFISH PICTURES)
Palmer’s experience as a long distance runner (he is shown here finishing the
Newsday
Long Island Marathon in 1994) served him well as he climbed dozens of floors with over fifty pounds of equipment on his back and became the first firefighter to reach the impact zone in either building.
Newsday
Long Island Marathon in 1994) served him well as he climbed dozens of floors with over fifty pounds of equipment on his back and became the first firefighter to reach the impact zone in either building.
(ISLAND PHOTOGRAPHY/COURTESY OF DEBORAH PALMER)
Firefighter Tom Kelly of Ladder Company 15 ran an elevator in the south tower that carried the injured to safety. As a young man thirty years earlier, Kelly had been a steamfitter working on the World Trade Center. On his first date with his future wife, he sneaked her into the construction site, and they looked over Manhattan from forty floors up. (FIRE DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK)
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