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...husband went to work that morning at Cantor Fitzgerald in the north tower. I was eight months pregnant and I remember watching television, just hoping, hoping it wasn't him. I was devastated when he didn't come home that night. I kept thinking that he was going to be coming home at some point, but he never...
...walked all the way to 50th St before going to Penn Station and catching the train home. I was so thankful to see my family again, but I found out my brother-in-law, Michael, who was a fireman in Midtown, had been somewhere in the south tower when it collapsed. Not even one tiny little piece of him was ever recovered. He left my sister and three kids, and that is what makes this so hard for me now. I worked in that building for seven years, and I spent more time there in those years than...
...80th floor that morning. We heard a loud explosion when the first tower was hit. A bunch of us were at the window trying to see what had happened when one of the managing directors came and yelled at us to get out. We took the stairs down. We tried to talk a little bit, even to strangers, to keep everybody from panicking. Some women had left high heels on the platforms between flights, and there were coffee cups under the railings. But we were going down at a good clip. I was already at the 46th floor when they...
...lieutenant in R&D for the FDNY. We handled all the life-saving ropes, belts, harnesses and safety equipment in the fire department, so on the morning of Sept. 11 we received a call for assistance when the first plane struck the north tower...
...arrived on the northeast side of the complex after the second plane had hit. I remember we got out of the car and started putting our equipment on. We were still getting our gear together to take to the command center right by Building Five when the south tower collapsed. We sought refuge in doorways and under vehicles to get out of the debris field. Then after the dust began to settle, we helped numerous people who were injured into buildings. We proceeded to the north tower to see if we could help people in that tower, and we were...