Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001.
He has been blind since birth.
His guide dog, Roselle, was under his desk when the plane hit.
The building lurched.
Smoke filled the offices.
People shouted.
Roselle stood, calm, and waited for the harness.
They went into Stairwell B and started down. Seventy-eight floors.
Firefighters passed them going up.
Jet fuel burned in the air.
A woman stopped, too afraid to keep walking.
Hingson talked her forward.
Roselle never pulled away, never panicked, never stopped.
They reached the lobby and then the street.
Minutes later the South Tower fell and a wall of dust rolled over them.
Roselle kept leading.
Hingson lived.
Roselle lived.
They walked out of a building that would not be standing an hour later.
He has spent the years since telling the story not as a miracle of sight, but as a story of trust: a man who could not see the stairs, and a dog who did not need to be told that the only way out was down.
Remember Michael Hingson.
Remember Roselle.
Remember everyone who started down those stairs and never reached the street.
These are some of the final recorded FDNY radio communications from inside the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
In the final minutes before the tower collapsed, firefighters were still climbing toward the impact zone, searching for survivors and calling for more men to come up.
Battalion Chief Orio Palmer had reached the 78th floor. Lt. Joseph Leavey of Ladder 15 was climbing toward him. With barely two minutes remaining, Palmer called Battalion 9 Chief Edward Geraghty and told him they had access to the floors above.
Geraghty's response: “All right, I'm on my way up, Orio.”
Seconds later, a Ladder 15 firefighter radioed that he was trapped in an elevator shaft: “We're chopping through the wall to get out.”
The radio signal disappeared shortly afterward. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m.
Orio Palmer, Joseph Leavey and Edward Geraghty were killed that morning. They were still going up while others were trying to get out.
Note: Some images used in this clip are unverified. For the sake of accuracy, I have not attempted to identify those individuals.
@PDProdigy13@kevin_x_m@IFTVofficial IF we qualify in 2030, that'll be a 16 year gap since we participated in the WC. Yeah, I think it's worth the risk to change philosophy and bring one the best coaches to ever be on the pitch. Italia has NOTHING to lose at this point, bring him Paolo.
The "tenuous" stat holds true. INTERNAZIONALE Milano will have a representative in the WC Final again, extending the streak from 1982.
LAUTAURO MARTINEZ CAPITANO DI INTER ⚫️🔵⚫️🔵⚫️🔵
Another reason to support England tonight is to negate that tenuous stat about Inter having a representative in every World Cup final since whenever that sequence began. If they were all World Cup winners, fine, but beaten finalists, seriously?
@salines_simone Give me a break. I've been an Inter fan since the 90s. The blame on this boneheaded fucking play lies with Bastoni. If we give up a goal, it's still 1-1 and we have all 11 and don't suffer for 80 minutes. Italian football is dead
Every Italian football fan should be marching outside the offices of the FIGC & Lega Serie A
…And not leaving til EVERY person in those offices - starting from the chiefs Gravina & De Siervo - are sacked/resign
Until the whole system is purged, Italy won’t qualify again
Breaking: After a historic 19-season run in Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin just informed his team that he is stepping down as the Steelers head coach, sources tell @JFowlerESPN and me.
The Steelers now will be looking for only their fourth head coach since 1969.
Jacksonville Jaguars star Travis Hunter responds to reporter who asked him why he got baptized before his game.
"It's a crazy question. Why did I get baptized? It's Sunday, it's God's day, and I've been planning to get baptized for a minute."
"I want to change my life, I want to become a better man..."
"It means a lot, you know, becoming a better man, leaving my old flesh and just becoming the new Travis."
Great answer.
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What an amazing sight to see.