Carey Wilson a woman known for taking care of her family. Making sure the homeless had a place to lay their heads. Also a church lady who never missed a day. On September 11th she did not know that things would turn for the worst. In the middle of chaos of smoke, water, debris and hundreds of evacuees who clogged a stairwell, Carey ran into Port Authority coworker Te’Vontae around the 23rd floor.
"We clung to each other, grabbed each other's belt buckles and made sure we both got all the way out of the building," Carey said in a phone interview. "It was a disaster zone once we got outside, with people jumping from the tower and piles of glass and debris we had to climb over."
One of her shoes got caught in a piece of twisted steel and another evacuee helped her free her foot and recover the shoe.
Unlike others who discarded their …show more content…
Nearly 3,000 were killed in the World Trade Center attacks.
Another object on display is a Motorola StarTAC clamshell mobile phone that belonged to Dan beetle, who worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on the 62nd floor of the South Tower. After the hijacked plane hit the tower at 9:03 a.m. and shook the building, Dan, who also had worked at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing, told his co workers to leave all their belongings behind and to evacuate the tower immediately. They all got out safely.
Dan’s cell phone was left in his briefcase on a window ledge. It was thrown from the tower as the building fell and the phone landed on the roof of the nearby Deutsche Bank building across Liberty Street.
Firefighter Lt. Thomas Frizalone was searching for survivors on the roof, found the phone, was astonished to discover it was still working and used it to call his wife to tell her he was all
"We clung to each other, grabbed each other's belt buckles and made sure we both got all the way out of the building," Carey said in a phone interview. "It was a disaster zone once we got outside, with people jumping from the tower and piles of glass and debris we had to climb over."
One of her shoes got caught in a piece of twisted steel and another evacuee helped her free her foot and recover the shoe.
Unlike others who discarded their …show more content…
Nearly 3,000 were killed in the World Trade Center attacks.
Another object on display is a Motorola StarTAC clamshell mobile phone that belonged to Dan beetle, who worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on the 62nd floor of the South Tower. After the hijacked plane hit the tower at 9:03 a.m. and shook the building, Dan, who also had worked at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing, told his co workers to leave all their belongings behind and to evacuate the tower immediately. They all got out safely.
Dan’s cell phone was left in his briefcase on a window ledge. It was thrown from the tower as the building fell and the phone landed on the roof of the nearby Deutsche Bank building across Liberty Street.
Firefighter Lt. Thomas Frizalone was searching for survivors on the roof, found the phone, was astonished to discover it was still working and used it to call his wife to tell her he was all