The camera took the picture of the falling man. And when these people were falling, I would then put my finger on the trigger of the camera and I'd hold the camera up, and I'd photograph and follow them going down, and then the camera would open and close and take the pictures as they were going down. I have, I think, eight or nine frames of this gentleman falling, and the camera just happened to cycle in that time when he was completely vertical.
I didn't see that picture really until I got back to the office and then started looking at my stuff on my laptop. The plane penetrated three of the Pentagon's five rings, killing more than people inside the building as well as everyone onboard the flight. New York City's Republican mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani — photographed here leading Republican governor George Pataki and Democratic New York senator Hillary Clinton on a visit to Ground Zero — was hailed for the leadership he displayed as the city reeled from the attacks.
Debris from the collapse of the Twin Towers — including more than 2, contaminants — blanketed Lower Manhattan. Firefighters, police, doctors, paramedics and other emergency workers rushed to the World Trade Center as soon as the first plane hit. It is still the deadliest single event for emergency services in US history, with first responders dying in their efforts to save lives.
The South Tower crashed to the ground at am after fire ripped through it for 56 minutes. He said: "I got out of my chair and started walking north along the trading desk, and arrived at the equity desk where Derek Sword, my colleague from Dundee was sitting.
I believe he was on the phone with his brother Alan at the time trying to surmise what had happened. He said: "At that point it was chaos. I got expelled from the elevator with some colleagues. I crawled around the corner to the stairwell and maybe 30 seconds later one of my colleagues came down to the 43rd floor and we made the decision we needed to get out of the building as quickly as possible. Andrew and his colleagues still had no idea what had happened. The only logical explanation they had was that the other tower had collapsed into their tower.
Now he understands that during the massive second explosion, the jet fuel came down the lift shaft and blew the lift apart. He said: "I am not sure how many survivors there were in the elevator but I was told it had dropped at that point.
So we were fairly fortunate to be on the front. After finding a stairwell, they managed to get to the lobby where port authority officers and fire crews were trying to organise people to get them out of the building. They did not want to waste a minute so they found the east side of the building and headed into the courtyard and then over towards the street. We got knocked down to the floor and we were behind a desk when it blew in over the top of us.
Once the dust had settled we made our way into one of the bathrooms and grabbed wet towels and wrapped them around our faces to avoid inhaling smoke. When we hit the East River we found about a million other people.
The U. Coast Guard led an evacuation of more than , people from lower Manhattan following the World Trade Center attacks. Most perished either after entering the buildings following the plane crashes or by being hit by debris outside.
World Trade Center Building 7, a story building adjacent to the Twin Towers, collapses after debris falling from neighboring buildings caused it to catch fire.
The Sept. Produced by: Elissa Curtis and Angela Owens. Alexander Gladstone.
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