WTC burns victim released from hospital

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(29 Jan 2002)
1. Elaine Duch, World Trade Centre burn victim, being wheeled into news conference
2. Pull back from Duch with family in front of photographers
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Palmer Bessy, Weill Cornell Hospital Burn Centre:
"This is a far happier beautiful Tuesday in New York than the first Tuesday when we met Ms Duch. She came to us from St Vincents where she had been evacuated and she arrived upstairs after a period of time in the emergency department in our burn unit at about 6pm that day. She was critically ill on the ventilator and many other forms of life support, she had burns over 77 per cent of her body and she also had a severe injury of her lungs."
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elaine Duch, World Trade Centre burn victim:
"Well I got hurt on the 88th floor. And I remember that they got an elevator and we went down to the 44th floor and then from there we walked all the way down and see I got hurt on 88 but I did manage to get out of the building. Yes Tower One. Well it was a fire and so I don't know if I was on fire or if it was the heat and my watch snapped off and my glasses shattered."
(QUESTION): "Heard from other people coming down, the stairways were very crowded?" "Yes, they had to move out of the way because they said there is a hurt person, move and they went to the side to I could go down. There were a couple of people, Jerry Gaim was one of them, who was helping me going down. I can't remember who the other person was."
(QUESTION): "How long was it before you realised what had happened?"
"I guess about a month ago when I was able to understand and realise where I was."
5. Mid view of Duch with one of her rescuers
STORYLINE:
A woman who was severely burned during the World Trade Centre attacks in September was released from hospital on Tuesday after four months of treatment.
Her face and body bandaged, 49-year-old Elaine Duch, told reporters at Weill Cornell Hospital's Burn Centre that she was on the 88th floor of the one of the twin towers on September 11 when she was injured.
Rescuers helped her get down.
Wearing a New York Fire Department baseball cap, Duch said it was not until a month ago that she understood the extent of the attack on the World Trade Centre and the casualties.
Duch is the 11th trade centre burn patient to be released from the medical centre.
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@danniieem2840 5 жыл бұрын

I was in pain when I burnt my skin with a heat bag .Cant imagine the pain of burning 77% of the body .The pain she must of felt would be unbearable .Poor woman and all the people who got injured that day

@boogphilly8321 5 жыл бұрын

She got away with her life, god is good all the time🙏🏾

@Hndrx_141 4 жыл бұрын

Lisette Peña You’re very ignorant, aren’t you?

@Isaac-kc3lo 4 жыл бұрын

You go into a very deep shock when you get burnt that badly which kinda numbs the pain. I was badly burned on both of my feet all the way up to my knees when I was 12, I didn't cry once. It hurt bad but it didn't hurt like anyone would expect it to hurt. I was mostly just well, you know... shocked that I was burned this badly. There were so many other things racing through my mind to the point where my brain was kind of blocking out the pain if that makes any sense at all.

@CatholicNeil 3 жыл бұрын

@@boogphilly8321 God bless you

@marfa.h3526 3 жыл бұрын

@@nardalizarraga6543 no it wasnt. A lot of people got cancer because they were exposed to the dust that came from the towers.

@luvvyxo 5 жыл бұрын

I hope she’s doing well now, she’s a survivor, she fought hard, bless her love

@CelesteOnnainty Жыл бұрын

Yes she is. She is looking wonderful too! Search Lauren manning

@nadiner889 10 ай бұрын

@@CelesteOnnaintyThis is a video of Elaine Duch, not Lauren Manning…

@maxjackson4066 8 ай бұрын

@@nadiner889that’s very disrespectful getting the victims name wrong

@IfAllElseFails_Ctrl_Alt_Del 2 жыл бұрын

Michael Wright, is a family friend, that worked in the North tower. I’m shocked, & inclined to believe. That he might’ve crossed paths, with this brave women, as she was rushed down😳. He survived the collapse of the South tower, & narrowly survived the North. From what I know, Michael spoke of his ordeal, only once. This specific moment, resonated with me though. Michael was blessed enough to have been right below the jeopardized floors. He sustained injuries, from the blast. But was thankfully Mobile, & had access to the stairs. On his way there, he & another coworker helped a women who was stuck in one of the bathrooms. When they reached the stairs, several other people were hurriedly going down the stairs, trying to leave the building. At that point, he still had no clue what had happened. Everyone was speculating “ Explosions or fire”. After a few minutes, Michael started hearing shouts from above him. Someone was rapidly rushing down the stairs. As they made their way past everyone. They shouted, “Out of the way, move out of the way”. Michael, & all of the others that were in the way. Pressed up against the wall, as the group of people rushed past him. He saw two men holding a woman, & another two, holding a man. He said the women, “had terrible burns on her face & arms”. She looked to be partially unconscious, because she was groaning, but was limp. The other burn victim, “Had his back completely exposed & horribly burned”. The back of his shirt, had melted onto his skin. So it was hard for the men, that were helping him, to get a good grip on him. He also encountered firefighters heading up the stairs, as he was running down. Several people asked what was going on. But all they got were “ we are not sure”, or “ keep exiting down, don’t stop”. He said he recalls the faces of those brave men, every moment. I’m not sure, if these 2 survivors, were the ones that he crossed paths, as they were all fighting to survive. But a lot of things coincide. Michael underwent several surgeries. He had several shards of fiber glass, embedded in his skin & eyes. He’s had breathing issues since then. He survived the towers. But like hundreds of other survivors. He was forever, mentally & physically scarred. Understandably, Michel was never the same, after that day. THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT. PLEASE DO NOT READ IF IT IS TOO MUCH. Michael said the images that haunts him the most, are of the bodies of “The jumpers”. When he made it to the bottom, they headed towards the main exits, but stopped immediately. He saw the windows were splattered with what he perceived as blood. As he looked closer. He saw the human remains that were dispersed on the yard. He put 2+2 together, & decide against going out that way, for fear of getting hit by a falling body. He & a few people headed down the stairs, onto the Mall below. Hoping to exist through a safer area, away from the towers. But at that moment, the S tower collapsed. He crouched down, & waited for death. Surprised that he was alive. He noticed he was buried under dust & fallen objects. He couldn’t see & it was hard to breath. It was a pitch black place. But he felt his way through, hoping to find an exit. Luckily, he made out a small light. So he made his way towards it. It turned out to be a firefighter, using his flashlight to guide other survivors out of that room. He never saw his coworker & the lady he helped, ever again. This is his story, I hope I did it justice. I pray for the victims of 9/11. May they rest in eternal peace.

@olivesayre3816 2 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJpolaZ-s9_cn6c.html i think this may be the firefighter?

@leesher1845 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing the story.

@niara6 2 жыл бұрын

@@olivesayre3816 yeah i thought the same too

@standup2982 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@sammy8013 9 ай бұрын

this is Elaine Duch

@HatersWorld 5 жыл бұрын

You’re so beautiful and brave elaine! What a story ❤️

@Pe-S 2 жыл бұрын

Poor lady, I hope she's doing good, wish her the absolute best. So happy she made it out alive!

@shaktivelan Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNeFo9yD2anKnJc.html

@rodrigodetriano8273 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing woman, amazing story, im glad you survived

@KimFsharpHarp 2 жыл бұрын

After this happened, I remember thinking about the burn victims most of all. So upset for them.

@borleyboo5613 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve just been reading about this lady in the book, ‘Fall and Rise’. She was a civilian office worker who was caught in a fire ball blast and happily survived. Very brave lady by all accounts. 🌼

@Totek6 2 жыл бұрын

What's her name please?

@niara6 2 жыл бұрын

Name?

@standup2982 Жыл бұрын

@@niara6 her name is Elaine Duch. I've got 'Rise and Fall' on Audible and have listened to it many times. It's hands down the best book on 9/11 🙏

@CajunA79 3 жыл бұрын

Poor thing 😞😞. You can hear the trauma to her lungs when she talks.

@krayoladisoni7862 2 жыл бұрын

God Bless You, Ms. Duch. I hope you're doing well 20 years later. 💐💐

@dallashuard4174 2 жыл бұрын

God bless her what a strong lady and I hope that she is still doing well today 🙏 🙏

@jessiebailey1995 5 жыл бұрын

Whoever disliked this video your a jerk she was risking her life to safe those people because of the attack that day

@btammarineable 5 жыл бұрын

Well said

@jessiebailey1995 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@KMProductions24 5 жыл бұрын

They may not like the coverage, crackwipe.

@naywahn 4 жыл бұрын

@@Samiifemboy96 Wait, what does communism (a form of government), social justice, and homosexuality, have to do with misinformed and/or willfully ignorant people, believing social media conspiracies?

@carmine4878 4 жыл бұрын

I was one of them I'm disliking ur comment

@dionnefrancis-brown1533 2 жыл бұрын

I hope she’s recovered from the mental scars as well as the physical scars.

@elchinitofeliz1699 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know which is worse

@joyleenpoortier7496 5 жыл бұрын

Oh my God you are a amazing woman thank you for sharing.

@amandanegrete1306 4 жыл бұрын

I am speechless, makes me stop and think. What an amazing human being, hope she is living a peaceful life today. I am thankful for what I have today and will try to be better. Ms Duch, you are an inspiration, thank you for being an example of courage ma’am.

@Nalaashwini 3 жыл бұрын

Wow , a miracle she survived to tell the tale. Hope she and other survivors are doing okay today

@jackies56tbird 5 жыл бұрын

I pray you continue to heal

@2011birch 2 жыл бұрын

Sept 11 we buried our mother. That afternoon I remembered watching 911 on the news headlines here in NZ. Ill never forget the horrific live coverage on television. So sorry for all those who lost their lives & sorry to the victims who survived but live with the scars of that horrible day.

@markgriffin2087 2 жыл бұрын

Wait she died in the towers or it was just a natural death that just happened on 9/11

@jamiegambino6406 5 жыл бұрын

What a strong lady, god bless her 👍👍

@melinda5777 2 жыл бұрын

GOD BLESS HER and the Two Men that helped her get out! 🙏 🙏🙏❤❤❤

@dawncolayco9340 2 жыл бұрын

That is amazing that you made it. I may have watched your future story too .

@MG-jj3pn 4 жыл бұрын

Worked at Grossman Burn Center Burn staff are amazing (dr, nurses, techs, therapists) Recovery is long and painful

@alucardking2058 5 жыл бұрын

Godbless this woman so strong ⚘

@scootermom1791 8 ай бұрын

When I first heard about her in a documentary, they'd said she was waiting for an elevator when the airplane struck Tower 1. The ignited fuel from the plane leaked down the elevator shafts. When Elaine's elevator opened, she caught on fire. This all happened within seconds, so there was no way to prevent it from happening. I'm truly surprised Elaine was able to survive this. I didn't even think she'd live long enough to make it out the building. When you're burned that badly, you're organs are exposed to all kinds of bacteria that the skin usually keeps out. She was exposed to a lot more bacteria than "normal" as a result of all the particles in the air around her. Many burn victims who survive the fire end up dying from infection later on. It's literally a miracle that she made it out alive and continued to survive after that.

@yeetlol1793 4 жыл бұрын

I love you, you’re a very courageous person.

@andrewcoons8060 5 жыл бұрын

North tower impact 92nd to 98th floors. Crazy

@yonghoju 5 жыл бұрын

Such a brave woman and a miraculous survival. How long did she spend in intensive care?

@jillillo9343 4 жыл бұрын

God bless you with what you did

@larrydockery7201 5 жыл бұрын

may god bless you hope you get well

@tomo1747 5 жыл бұрын

I hope is is well, God bless her

@mike4619 2 жыл бұрын

After all she had been through, you would think they would let her go home quietly. Why make her relive her experience on national television?

@tcpip200 5 жыл бұрын

Would love to hear your story

@aspirin4709 2 жыл бұрын

Brave woman. Huge respect and love.

@phenixxcabrera8860 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! That's so Sad

@aprilvalleyvamp1334 2 жыл бұрын

WTF? Why cut it right in the middle?? I wanted to hear her story, and y'all just stop mid sentence😤😤😤???

@LisaMarie51968 2 жыл бұрын

God Bless you 🙏🏼💜🙏🏼

@Cdub31 2 жыл бұрын

God bless her, hope she’s doing well .

@actionstarkids9257 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing woman

@djjoe214 2 жыл бұрын

I wanna see the full interview, I don't like the fact it cuts off at 233

@kirijones3778 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing 👍

@moozartney 2 жыл бұрын

God bless this brave and lovely woman.

@mariemari1395 2 жыл бұрын

God bless her💗

@JBoo 2 жыл бұрын

This right here is true courage and bravery prayers for all

@sharonwilliams5701 2 жыл бұрын

God bless you ❤️

@annegreenwood3624 2 жыл бұрын

she is amazing now inspires so many such a hero

@maph2759 2 жыл бұрын

So she burnt 77% of her body and managed to go down 80 such floors. Damn don’t mess with this lady

@jamesschiller1859 2 жыл бұрын

No kidding. Bar none the toughest lady I ever watched. The trip down must have been agonizing.

@hockeytalk13 2 жыл бұрын

This is what real heroes look like.

@zellanutellaa 2 жыл бұрын

A beautiful person

@paulp96275 3 жыл бұрын

God bless 👍🇬🇧

@pablomota2081 2 жыл бұрын

God Bless!

@Raid125 2 жыл бұрын

God bless her 😞

@all0utmetal735 2 жыл бұрын

Never fucking forget. Never…

@dianekay8771 2 жыл бұрын

God bless this woman.

@christinschneider3690 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, the video cuts in the middle of the interview...

@RoonJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Best of the best. X

@emilyjaneleightonporter5367 3 жыл бұрын

Remarkably brave woman god bless her heart so proud of her so glad she managed to get out the burning world trade centre poor poor woman being left with these horrific burns soo cruel 💔💔💔😭😭😭

@robdontsmoke1948 2 жыл бұрын

God bless her

@haroldogier5028 2 жыл бұрын

Brave women I hope you made a full recovery.👍😁

@lisamartiene880 2 жыл бұрын

No words.

@melissaandrew8268 4 жыл бұрын

Any ideas

@scootermom1791 8 ай бұрын

Why didn't they play the entire news clip?

@jcanyiam8309 2 жыл бұрын

HERO HERO HERO!!! May the Good Lord BLESS YOU

@owl9130 5 жыл бұрын

Poor woman. She lost all her hair too 😭

@america1324FIRst 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Elaine it's Paul Adams here hope all is well.

@sireinamasleyyesqueenmorel1096 2 жыл бұрын

Why put an ad on anything about 9/11? Stop profiting off of this tragedy!

@kevinxanity4113 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody deserves this , hope she’s doing fine now

@bmc1717 Жыл бұрын

What’s her name?

@Amethyst93xo 7 ай бұрын

Her scars are battle wounds!!! They are symbolic of her resilience. I hope all who endured this tragedy have found some kind of peace 😔💔❤️‍🩹 my sincere condolences

@wendyknoxleet 5 жыл бұрын

Nuclear burn pattern. How is she in 2018?

@Marsbar1212 5 жыл бұрын

You can read about Elaine Duch’s recovery from here as well as some other heroic stories of survival that day. www.thetalko.com/the-911-tragedy-15-confessions-from-women-who-made-it-out-alive/

@kyboy5 2 жыл бұрын

More like jet fuel melt pattern.

@AnInsideJob-mynewbook 7 жыл бұрын

God bless this woman. Hope she is coping well, considering what she has been through because of those evil Islamic racist terrorists.

@jesus4602 6 жыл бұрын

Fucking shill piece of shit!

@Thefruitshowstheroot 6 жыл бұрын

Jesus ....you did it!

@EmeraldSunshine 6 жыл бұрын

wow..mad alittle??

@BIFC216 2 жыл бұрын

😔

@kmartnovalover 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my God the Burns look so bad

@brigettecharlton9717 2 жыл бұрын

88th floor such a surviver

@ajbaumgart4774 7 ай бұрын

God bless this woman i sure hope she is doing well and keeping strong but at least the evil acts that day couldn't break her spirit not just hers but many Americans that day may all the survivors of that day stay strong and be strong for one another on reunion's to remember friends and co workers

@r.l.dubbert7486 4 жыл бұрын

This is the first I have heard that the elevators were being used after the fact.

@NathanRichHotpot 2 жыл бұрын

I saw in another 9/11 interview one elevator fell on another, 70 stories. And the bottom one was on fire. So the people in the top one were seriously injured by the fall, then burned to death. People were using the elevators until they couldn't anymore.

@ryand141 2 жыл бұрын

@@NathanRichHotpot Which interview did you watch? Do you have links? Thx.

@NathanRichHotpot 2 жыл бұрын

@@ryand141 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZ1mfZx83LjDdIE.html

@ryand141 2 жыл бұрын

Orio Palmer, firefighter (fixed an elevator) to get up to the 40th floor of the South Tower I believe. He also fixed radio communication somehow on his way to the 78th floor. Amazing feat of will, endurance, professionalism and above all bravery.

@brendencrypto9264 2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful beautiful strong, resilient, inspirational, beautiful women. I need to shut the f*** up and stop complaining so much.

@CatholicNeil 3 жыл бұрын

Anything is possible with the help of God

@hobbitsumbarch5743 2 жыл бұрын

What a sad tradegy for this women. But I have to ask questions... She came down from 88th floor via elavator? I thought they were all damaged according official media?!? Okay, she managed to walk the stairs also which must have been a serious act of power that deserves a lot of respect and she is luckily alive. Why did this video end so apprupt?!?

@melvynsngltn27 Жыл бұрын

Elevator from the 88th floor to the 44th floor

@Bruceskyy 2 жыл бұрын

I can't find anything about this Jerry Gaim person who helped her. Does anyone know if he survived? Pretty much all that comes up is this video

@Bruceskyy 2 жыл бұрын

@Sophie Not sure why I didn't think to do that! Thank you so much

@cbuc30 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus loves you

@miguellucas31 3 жыл бұрын

❤

@deniselavache7162 4 жыл бұрын

Thumbs down????? What a world😢

@janice576 2 жыл бұрын

God Bless to all who endured such pain and sorrow from 9 11 Many blessings and love to everyone..🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇 We will never forget...

@leesher1845 2 жыл бұрын

Horrendous.

@JCTrucks410 5 жыл бұрын

what the fuck where's the entire interview

@mariopejic5534 2 жыл бұрын

How do the conspiracists explain their and other burn victims stories

@coolyoutubename16 2 жыл бұрын

Radiation burns

@vincentm.7462 2 жыл бұрын

is this because of the elevator bullshit?

@kionamcnutt8630 4 жыл бұрын

Get out of here!!! Yuck!! He wouldn't. Nice try. Not talking about burned victim.

@chrisiemysnyk 6 жыл бұрын

She still in that condition after all those years

@dizzydevil547 5 жыл бұрын

this is AP archive footage ......Elaine Duch was released from hospital in Jan 2002 acording to press releases at the time ;) www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/30/september11.usa

@commentor3485 2 жыл бұрын

Where is the line between alive and no quality of life to where its better to die? I think I would have rather died here.

@eRacer314 2 жыл бұрын

@Commentor...I hear you, I feel the same way. However, I wonder to myself if I was really faced with death would I feel the same then. Just saying

@commentor3485 2 жыл бұрын

@@eRacer314 i wonder if i would feel the same as well.

@eRacer314 2 жыл бұрын

I also wonder if I was facing imminent death by been burned to death or jumping, I think I'd take the burn. I don't know how anyone could even make that decision. Again...unless were actually there in that awful place, I don't think we know. Hard to even wrap my head around it. Finally... when we think we are having a bad day, we really only have to think back and remember when. 🙏

@commentor3485 2 жыл бұрын

@@eRacer314 I was more referring to after being found.

@davepowell7168 Жыл бұрын

Warrior spirit serving that lady well.. My admiration and respect goes out Sadly no way in hell did 2 planestrikes collapse 2 towers to neatly destroy WTC7 and the rest. Who benefits from the seizure of oil, lithium and heroin resources ?

@Neverforget-bg9nb 2 жыл бұрын

@BassCreator18 4 жыл бұрын

This is a tragic story but everyone else had to walk from the 88th floor. Hmmm strange

@andreapilia5885 2 жыл бұрын

I am very sorry to see this person who suffers injuries all over his body, but I would like to say that he must thank Bush and his henchmen for this, do not blame people who do not enter anything that even today they are forced to make us believe, l 11 / 9 was a designed project and the coffee table is an American coffee table ... I hope this person gets back to health soon.