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Each tower had three staircases which, barring a few twists and turns, ran all the way from the top of the building down to the mezzanine level just above the ground floor. The system was not designed to be used in an emergency, and today, many towers above a certain height are required to be fitted with dedicated emergency elevators or an additional staircase.
When the planes hit on the morning of September 11 , the twin towers were at less than half their full occupancy, with about 9, people in each tower. Many people who worked there had not yet arrived, partly because of a New York mayoral election scheduled for that day. At am, American Airlines flight 11 slammed into the north face of the north tower, rendering all three staircases impassable for anyone above the 91st floor.
More than people in and around the building are killed. Forty people on board, excluding the hijackers, perish.
More than 1, in and around the building are killed. They include, but are not limited to:. All 11 crew members and 81 passengers, including 5 hijackers, on American Airlines Flight 11 were killed when it crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
All 9 crew members and 56 passengers, including five hijackers, were killed on United Airlines Flight when it crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, according to the commission report. All 40 passengers and crew members, as well as four hijackers, were killed when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into the field in Shanksville, PA.
At least 2, first responders and survivors have passed from illnesses related to the site, according to the CDC's World Trade Center Health Program-- the majority of them first responders. According to the program, 1, first responders have died from Aerodigestives1 and 1, from cancer.
An additional survivors have died from aerodigestives, according to the program, and from cancer. The most common killer has been cancer, but new research suggests that cardiovascular disease is markedly higher in responders who were first on the scene as well as those who spent protracted periods of time on the pile.
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. Andrew believes it was instinct that got him out of the tower in time.
I am deathly terrified of heights so that ironically might have saved my life. Later in the day Andrew helped work the phones with other employees who survived and by the end of the day they had an idea of who got out and who didn't.
Derek, his Dundee friend, was one of the 2, who lost their lives in the Twin Towers attack. The pair bonded over their Scottish roots on Andrew's first day in the job.
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