Nunca esquecer o 11 de Setembro. Imagens terríveis de pessoas que não tiveram outra opção a não ser saltar das Torres Gêmeas do World Trade Center em direção a uma morte certa.💔🥺
Muitas pessoas ficaram presas acima dos andares em chamas, enquanto os bombeiros tentavam desesperadamente fazer tudo o que podiam para salvar suas vidas. Para aqueles que estavam presos nas torres em chamas, praticamente só havia duas opções: morrer lentamente devido ao fogo ou saltar e enfrentar uma morte rápida.
The people above the impact in the WTC's North Tower on September 11, 2001, possibly faced the worst situation and death among all the victims of the attacks on that day.
American Airlines Flight 11 struck 1 World Trade Center at a.m., roughly from the 93rd through the 99th floors. In that building the hit destroyed or blocked all three stairwells. Fire and debris filled the core.
Anyone on about the 92nd floor and higher had no intact downward route. The South Tower, hit later, still had one stairwell that some people above the impact used. Below the North Tower impact, thousands also walked down. But above the wound, no one who was still in those offices after the strike got out.
Roof rescue, which some expected from drills or from the 1993 bombing memory, was not available. Heat and smoke made a helicopter landing impossible. Roof access was not an open escape. Windows, smoke, and rising temperature left people with a fire they could not pass and a clock they could not stop.
Smoke filled the upper floors. Flames advanced through the offices. People broke windows for air. Some fell or jumped.
The North Tower stood until 10.28 a.m., a little more than an hour and forty minutes after the impact. That interval was long enough for phone calls and for the full knowledge that the end was near.
Other victims that day died in the aircraft, in the South Tower, on the street, in the collapse, or as rescuers. Those deaths were not lesser. But the particular cruelty of the upper North Tower was that the building still stood long enough for people to know they would not leave it, as shown by these dramatic images.
🇺🇸 | Estas imágenes muestran a bomberos del FDNY trabajando en el World Trade Center a las 10:25 de la mañana del 11 de septiembre de 2001, apenas tres minutos antes del colapso de la Torre Norte. La Torre Sur ya había caído y, aun así, los equipos de rescate seguían trabajando entre los escombros en busca de personas atrapadas. A las 10:28, la segunda Torre Gemela también se desplomaría.
Elevator bank on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center north tower
Because the Twin Towers were so tall, elevators could not go directly to all floors
A transfer station of elevator banks was located on the 78th floor. Many survivors of the initial impact congregated here.
Tourists on top of the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001. The day was humid ahead of an approaching cold front. Strong storms would barrel through the region, leading to much quieter weather for the next day…
CBS photojournalist Mark LaGanga captured historic, raw footage from inside 7 WTC during the evacuation. His camera documented the suffocating smoke and chaos before he filmed the North Tower's collapse from a dangerously close range.
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The 9/11 jumpers had to choose between jumping from the towers or burning alive.
About 200 people made that choice on 9/11.
Never forget what they were forced to decide.
This was 5 minutes before the North Tower was struck, it was a beautiful Morning and maybe the best Morning for weather of the Year. September 11, 2001 before Tragedy Struck.
🕊 The missing Twin Towers returned to New York for a few minutes
A light show was held on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The drones first rose into the night sky in a spiral, then formed the outlines of the destroyed World Trade Center towers.
The installation used 2,977 drones — one for each person killed in the attacks.
On that tragic morning, over 200 people jumped to escape the suffocating 2,000° heat and smoke. On the ground, firefighters faced the agonizing sound of hope falling as they realized they weren't hearing debris. Never forget their memory.
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