Here is an email floating around that describes the terror. The New York City Fire Fighters...are the bravest in the world and they saved countless lives. A memorial monument should be erected for those brave souls. Email is below. SM
Dear all my friends,
Some called to my home on sight, Thanks. I am alive.
Here is my experience on Sep. 11.
8:45, I was in my office at the 78th floor in 1 World
Trade Centre (the first one being hit) when I heard a
huge muffled sound from somewhere right above my
floor. The huge body of the building shook violently
for some five seconds, pieces of broken items
cluttered up with tons of office papers swirled in
front of the windows on the east side of the building.
It was 8:45 am, 9/11/2001, NY.
Kit (my boss) and me are the only persons in the
office. We stared at each other for a short while
before coming up to inspect our conditions: the
building seemed steady, we did not find any fires or
smokes within our angle of view, and we were hearing
terrified people screamed by from outside the door. so
we both agree to stay in the office without rushing
out into the possibly poisoning air in the corridors.
We stayed there for 22 minutes until the second hit by
on tower 2. We changed our mind saw a huge flame
skipped across the window. We didn¡¯t realise the
building could have been crashed down before this. I
did the following during the 22 minutes:
1. Called my wife at home, told her we had been most
possibly attacked by a bomb, but I had been all ok and
waiting for evacuation;
2. received 2 calls from worrying friends: Mei and
Hua;
3. sent an email with a large attachment. (The email
has been downloaded printed out today. It shows that
the sending time was at 9:06:42 AM);
4. picked up some data CDs; and
5. locked the door after us.
We had no trouble getting down the first 30 stories in
the fire escape until finally met with the crowd at
around 50th floor. It lead to a long slow journey
afterwards. It was hot and humid in the stairs, 2 but
not 3 guys could walk abreast. People there were
really gentle and calm. Small groups of fire fighters
were moving contrary to our direction-upstairs, some
appeared by the corner. I believe I saw the faces of
nearly every fire fighter later reported missing.
When we arrived at the 6th floor, all of a sudden, a
sound noise with sever shaking of the building
attacked, which I realised afterwards was the total
collapse of tower 2. The attack looked, through a
half opened door by the stairs, quite like a thunder
storm in everything including the blinking lighting.
It blocked our exit at a lower floor. People were
redirected by fire fighters with flash lights in their
hands, to walk through a side walk to another fire
escape, where we joined another procession in the
building to came out of the building and staggered
along over the rubbles from tower 2. Five minutes
after our rushing out, the tower 1 collapsed right
behind us.
The fire fighters, all left behind, knew their fate.
their unbelievably strong mind were never inferior to
the hijackers.
With sadness. |
