Perspectives

Those that survied and stories of those that lost thier lives that day can be found below.

Amid the smoke, chaos and debris, Welles Crowther helped injured and disoriented office workers to safety, risking his own life in the process. Though they couldn't see much through the haze, those he saved recalled a tall figure wearing a red bandana to shield his lungs and mouth."

"He had come down to the 78th-floor sky lobby, an alcove in the building with express elevators meant to speed up trips to the ground floor. In what's been described as a "strong, authoritative voice."

-Woman Recounts Being Saved by Crowther

Welles Crowther Known as the Man in the Red Bandana

Last words from many of those that died that day, September 11, 2001.

Instinct told us that the (north) tower was coming down. So we ran. And it was every man for himself," Singleton recalled. The rest is a blur: He remembers getting about 30 feet from the building and falling. He dislocated his shoulder.

"I was on my hands and knees and I was waiting to die," he said. When he came to, he relied on his training as a firefighter to pull himself out of the rubble and debris. Covered in dust, he somehow made his way to the emergency medical services.

"I felt as if ... I wasn't really doing the job that I came to do," Singleton recalled about being injured while trying to help.

-Interview of Firefighter at Groundzero

Some of the dogs and their handlers found survivors but most did not. Walton says the dogs, which are trained to find living humans, found only death. “All of those dogs were trained to find live and there was no live,” Walton told WBBM Newsradio. “Everything was so blown apart and the odor of death was all over and just it made the dogs almost crazy.” Walton says human and canine members of the search and rescue teams became depressed by what ended up being a futile search for survivors in the rubble of the Twin Towers. “The people at 9/11 were unable to because of the situation were not able to give the yippy, yippy, good boy we found live because they didn’t. I think the dogs were depressed because they knew their people were depressed. It goes down the leash,”

-WBBM Interviews Dog Handler

Man Pretending to be Saved to Cheer Up Resuce Dogs

Mother Recalls the Day Her Daughter Died in The Towers -9/11 Museum

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