She didn’t bark. She didn’t panic.
She just led him to life, step by step. Roselle, the guide dog who saved her blind owner from the 78th floor on 9/11.
Una de las historias más conmovedoras del 911, es la historia de Roselle y su dueño Michael Hingson. Michael era invidente y trabajaba en el piso 78 de la torre Norte del World Trade Center.
Roselle estaba entrenada para ser sus ojos, y cuando el avión del vuelo 11 impactó la torre 16 pisos más arriba de donde ellos se encontraban, en medio del caos, empezó a guiar a Michael por las escaleras de emergencia..
I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly.
In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints.
But that is not really what happened.
These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure.
The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms.
And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like “controlled demolition.”
Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing.
What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward.
That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by “controlled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse.
And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses.
Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated.
Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry.
The result was progressive collapse.
No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions.
But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful.
They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints.
A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.
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.
Every time Charles Wolf goes to the 9/11 memorial he kisses the name of his Wife Katherine Wolf who worked on the 97th floor of the North Tower.
He last saw her at 8:06 a.m."If someone looks at me when I kiss her name, I say, ‘It’s my wife.’That’s when everything changes,” says Wolf.
Barry Jennings died shortly after he gave his witness evidence of the collapse of Building 7 at the World Trade Centre on 9/11. His death has never been explained and investigators paid to discover the truth returned their fees and refused to investigate further.
25 years ago, Queen Elizabeth broke with tradition and ordered the US National Anthem played at Buckingham Palace.
Today, by command of The King, that same anthem rang out again on the anniversary of 9/11.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester stood in for His Majesty, joined by US Ambassador Warren Stephens.
Never forget. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Former President Barack Obama, former President Joe Biden, former President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton and their wives are at Friday morning’s New York City 9/11 ceremony.
9/11 25th anniversary live updates: https://t.co/WOhRCFFhXR
🚨 HOLY CRAP! JD Vance just MIC DROPPED a leftist heckler who interrupted him waving a Mexican flag...this place is DEAFENING
"We just had a protestor interrupt us with the Mexican flag."
"Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, GET YOUR ASS OVER THERE, I'LL BUY YOU THE PLANE TICKET!"
*TOTAL PANDEMONIUM*
🔥🔥🔥
11 years ago, 21 Egyptian Copt Christians were beheaded by ISIS in Libya for refusing to convert to Islam.
Their last words were: “Jesus, I love you.”
Remember, no one marched for them.
No one protested for them!
Nunca olvidar el 11-S. Imágenes terribles de personas que no tuvieron más opción que saltar desde las Torres Gemelas del World Trade Center hacia una muerte segura. #11settembre2026
Muchas personas quedaron atrapadas por encima de los pisos en llamas, mientras los bomberos intentaban desesperadamente hacer todo lo posible por salvar sus vidas. Para quienes estaban atrapados en las torres en llamas, prácticamente solo había dos opciones: morir lentamente a causa del fuego o saltar y enfrentar una muerte rápida.
Fue profundamente triste ver a tantas personas perder la vida, mientras todo era transmitido en vivo por las noticias.
#NeverForget911 #September11