Andrew B I mean you could be prepared for a small fire , but a plane crashing into your building ? , I don’t think so , no one could be prepared for that ..

Exactly. Plus I see a lot of young people on here saying they’d done this or that. I was watching it unfold live and was frozen. That second plane struck and all I could say for hours was “what the fuck?” Imagine being there in the middle of pure mayhem. Well, I can’t, but I’m sure the kids that were fucking toddlers, or not even born when this happened are full of good advice.

@jasonm your spot on mate anyone who was alive well before the attacks didn’t ever think that passenger jets would be hijacked and flown into the WTC. I was 17 on 9/11 and when the first plane hit (watching on the late night news live in Australia) I though what kind of dickhead pilot would fly a Cessna or helicopter into the World Trade Center. Then I thought maybe the pilot had a heart attack or stroke etc. the point being even when the attacks were underway I still had no idea what was going on. Until 9:03 when United 175 crashed into the south tower, then I was like, holy fuck what is going on!!

jason m. Exactly. Not to mention probably alot of what they were taught WAS because of what happened on Sept 11th. Morons. Remember seeing the 2nd plane crash into the tower at work. I thought it was a replay of the first. And then it clicked pretty quickly what we all were witnessing and experiencing as a nation. Terrorist attack. I remember the '93 attempt attack. Young people can be so damn ignorant and arrogant.

My mom and my uncle worked for a company in the WTC for 13 years, my mom lived and survived both the 93’ bombings and 9/11, my uncle survived the 93’ bombings but unfortunately didn’t survive 9/11. Non of them could have ever imagined that something like 9/11 was gonna happen.

3 years after...

Thanks, just crazy to see how old this is..

@@cmc147 My EXACT thoughts!!! Why did it take them so long?!! Also why didn't they use common sense and tell women who tend to wear high heels to bring/ keep a pair of sneakers/ comfortable shoes to evacuate!!!! Also be able to communicate with person in charge, the building beside you( especially after 93)!!!

Thank you. I was wondering when it was filmed.

Huh. I thought it was the 80s

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​@@xshxr stop commenting. Forever.

Wow this is the most incoherent and foolish comment to a video I have ever seen

The safety officer was Rick Rescorla, the chief security officer of Morgan Stanley at the South Tower. He was a former soldier who fought in Vietnam and was part of the group ambushed in Ia Drang (which was later made into the movie We Were Soldiers). Rescorla knew that the towers were going to be targeted again after the 1993 bombing, possibly by air. He implemented an evacuation plan and trained regularly for it, making sure each Morgan Stanley employee (and their guests) knew what to do in the event of an attack. That morning, shortly after the North Tower was hit, Rescorla ordered an evacuation of the 22-floor Morgan Stanley offices, despite PA in the South Tower announcing that the building was secure. He guided employees with his bullhorn, singing songs to keep their morale high. He was last seen going up to make sure everyone was out shortly before the tower collapsed. Because of his actions, both before and during the attacks, only 13 out of the 2,700 employees of Morgan Stanley perished that day. Rick Rescorla was a hero.

Did the north tower above the impact zone have its sprinklers cut off too? I would assume so.

I never thought about that. It still has a very 70s look to it

There's some nice footage in Three Days of the Condor (1975).

It is very nice to see the inside of them... I always thought every floor was cubicals with few offices and a break room. Now I can can see the real inside.

It looks kind of boring (I don't mean that in mean way)

@@crazycars81 Kind of, but on some floors there were gift shop, tourists spots, and a high-end resteraunt on one of the topmost floorsm

It is an awfully unnerving noise.

I'm sorry but there is no way you think firefighter is spelled figher fighter

It's so horrifying😳☠ similar to the WW2 sirens.

@@ElmerFudd1 lmaoooo i didn’t even notice he spelled it like that

do u have the link?

@Jack Django plus the logistical problems of trying to run a firefighting and rescue operation while 60,000 people are running around, wondering what's going on, and placing themselves in more danger from being hit by falling debris, and people jumping

Most of us did ignore it. What we were told is that we needed to go through and out 4 because people were jumping from 1 and there was a lot of aluminum fluttering down and could hurt or kill us. By the time I came out my building had been hit while I was waiting for another elevator so you knew there would be debris from ours as well and plus you could see it from the lobby before we hit the stairs. You're right that authority shouldn't be listened to but it's a personal decision that you have to go with your gut. I recall watching a story about a guy who did go back up and still survived. I left because of '93 and I know it was the right decision.

@Jack Django The World Trade Center had already been bombed in 1993. That's why I don't understand why they just assumed that the first plane hitting the north tower was probably an accident and didn't evacuate the south tower. It seems like they should have at least considered the possibility that it was another terrorist attack?

Gus W seems really fishy to me that the authorities were like “hmmmm🧐 a large explosion knocked out the 5 floors from the same exact building next to me and is smoking intensely, oh well doesn’t seem like an Immediate danger and everyone should just get to work, not like the wtc were bombed before in a terrorist attack”

I bet they were all Whelan Security guards too

yungprod 03 there’s a documentary about it, with footage inside the Towers.

Those sprinklers fucking burned

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iL6bmdZpsNC2g5c.html Here's a documentary about it

yungprod 03 There was a documentary like “Heroes of 88th Floor” or something that kinda showed the office area if I remember correctly.

@@gamerbrojp9500 they pretty much melted when the plane hit severd the water lines not to mention people in the towers evacuating we're saying it was hell getting down the stairway was literally like a waterfall

This is the same alarm system we have in our building. I could imagine it'd be a trigger.

That’s creepy

I remember hearing those alarms as a kid on the news. It's pretty chilling.

Actually they didn't get this alarm instead they had an automatic PA telling them "the building is secure please stay at your desk"

i’m pretty sure that was actually the siren for the 7 and 5 WTC, the ones in the twin towers were different

I remember seeing his photo on the voices center for resilience webpage

There is. I came from that video to see him here. RIP😢

Pena que nao tiveram tempo

well if you think about it the planes crashed really early in the morning so the building definitely wasn't as full as it could've been or would've been if the incident would've taken place in the afternoon

Irregardless isn’t a word bub.

@@te4bag_k1ngp1n happy Easter bub

"Regardless".

it wasn't at full capacity either. Had this been on a Friday at lunch time like the 1993 bombing was, I guarantee it'd have killed tens of thousands just in the towers alone, because tower 2 would have been open to visitors by that point, something it wasn't yet due to how early it was hit.

I ve wondered if the actually casualty figures ( deaths) only include people who were actually in the towers ( including EMS personell )and onboard the hijacked aircraft. Never heard about people who were not actually that close to the building, who were hit by flying debris for example and died in hospital. I think some debris landed on an expressway and almost killed several people. Gotta factor in the deaths from cancer, respiratory illnesses from 9/11 also. Plus related suicides. I m sure there were some of them

Yes and no, It was 8-9AM, everything was closed, restaurants, malls, souvenir shops and everything related to tourist areas such as the rooftop, There were only early risers, cleaners, important personnel, bosses, if they had attacked at 3pm it would have been a universal catastrophe with +50,000 victims.

Yes but later in the afternoon the terrorist would have most likely encountered full flights. Greater chance of a delays and a chance the passengers could overwhelm them . This was planned with military precision. They trans continental flights wasn't a coincidence more jet fuel . Some even think only the pilot terrorist knew it was a suicide mission. The "muscle " terrorist thought they were just attacking the plane

Reminds me of Walter White talking about the plane crash, "look on the bright side"

It took one minute for them to go up each floor May all the 343 we lost that day rest in peace 🙏🙏🙏

AFAIK many of them have not received the order to evacuate because communication systems were overloaded and a critical radio relay in the Plaza was damaged or incorrectly configured.

Orio Palmer made it to the impact floors on the south tower, and described seeing “isolated pockets of fire” before the tower fell. If only the towers were able to hold for just another hour, perhaps they could have been saved or at least salvaged.

Guys made it all the way to the 79th floor and saw the dead and starting fighting the fire and it still collapsed not even 10 minutes after reaching it.

yes because larry silverstein ''pulled it''@@gang6009

Katy Bauer • Most of them if they were on upper floors

Same here:-(

This demo was made on the 23rd floor so maybe none hopefully

Well this fire was too big soooo😬😬😬

That was my first thought.

Yeah that quote did not age well.

😩

It's true.

most were probably actors hired for a low budget safety video

@@jackson5116 You said it yourself, "low budget". These were office workers, and many explained that Rick Rescorla made them do fire evacuation drills 4 times a year prior to 9/11.

@@haven216 yup and they hated him for that they were annoyed but when it came down to it I know most were so thankful ! A lot helped eachother to get out Rick was the goat!

Based on testimonials, I gather that no one stayed working in these buildings for more than a couple of years. Of course, I’m sure there were a few.

I’m pretty sure most of the people in this video survived if they were still working there on September 11th because they mentioned these people worked on the 23rd floor!

Your video definitely saved many lives on 9/11!!!! The video pretty much ingrained people to evacuate in an orderly and safely manner! The video might seem "cheesy" to some, but it gave very important tips to stay alive, like "ignore wanna-be tycoons", because staying alive and calm is extremely important in an emergency! Good video production!

@@player4life11111 Thank you for the kind words. I can't really take them to heart too much. Right around the year 2000 quite a few of the emergency procedures were changed due to an equipment update. It pretty much made this video out of date. I know for a fact that this video was not used in tenant training after late 1999. So by the time 9/11 came about even the tenants who saw the video at one time would have watched it two years earlier. I was 26 when I made this video and I owned the video production company Northland Productions. We made fire/life safety videos like this all over the country. Obviously, making this video for the WTC was a feather in our cap. I remember working with the good folks at The Port Authority of NY & NJ the day of filming. They were sure that another terrorist attack was a matter of "when not if." They even mentioned Osama bin Laden by name. I remember our contact from WTC said "we have this place protected like a fortress, but they'll hit us in some way that we either don't know about or can't defend against." No one mentioned airplanes but many people talked about briefcase nukes or missiles fired from boats. I think all of those people we worked with died on 9/11. Ordinary folks. Going to work every day, knowing that some day it would happen. Amazing.

@@wonoverimages133 Further from the truth, this video in particular saved many lives on 9/11! There are many accounts of survivors that were able to leave the WTC on time that the floor warden volunteers were searching methodically for stragglers and survivors exactly like in the video, even going down floor by floor looking for people along the way! I am sure many people would have perished in similar tragedies if not for your safety videos you and your team have made! The way the videos were made drilled home the point of evacuating promptly, calmly, and efficiently! Many of the people who were in the WTC on 9-11 had worked for years there, and the video was memorized in their minds. Definitely watch National Geographic Inside 9-11 the second part in particular, they mention the survivors and those who saved lives by searching along the way.

@@wonoverimages133 Did they make a new video?

@@wonoverimages133 Is the lock fire cabinet where still a thing in 2001? Having to wait for a policer with minimal firefighter training to extinguish a little fire that prevent you from evacuating is crazy. Also, I eared in some documentary that some fire exit where block because of magnetic card not working. Is-it true? You needed a magnetic card to evacuate?

That's why you always have to think of new things that could possibly go wrong. And sadly, most often it is maintenance issues or human stupidity.

MAJOR OOF Its haunting considering the fate of WTC.

These videos are made to simply avoid panic and chaos and to know where the exits are. In a truly horrible situation, you get out however you can. Nobody is going to be calmly walking to the stairs.

No hay palabras ni habrá nunca para describir el 11 de septiembre del 2001

Agreed @@MrJr1976 What I've always said to people who insist on making excuses is "why were there only 6 stairwells, why was a 100+ story building built like a maze to get to safety & why was their sole preparedness plan to sit tight until fireman/port authority got to your floor".........not one of the architects or people in charge of rescue thought to themselves "well what would they do if a fire made it humanly impossible to get to a stairwell & all the elevators stopped working".There were entire teams of people in charge of nothing but fire safety on those floors,WTF were the emergency ladders & a damn exit route you could get to in the CENTER of the buildings🤦🏿‍♀️There was nothing to do for people who were in the route of the planes,nobody could save the people who were drenched in fuel on the lower floors & the people who were trapped in place by debris.There damn sure eas a lot to be done for people who could move around the impact just like there should've been something in place if the exterior doors were not working.Smh

Surely they had to have inside information to hit the tower a certain way so that all them things you mentioned were destroyed.. has this ever been confirmed? Seems a big coincidence, so sad 😞

El Cucuy the planes wingspan was almost the same length as the building, and that’s not including the detonation of the jet fuel upon impact. The southern tower was hit more at an angle so one of the stairways survived. It’s really is sad 😔

Bob Smith that makes sense.. thanks for the info 👍

El Cucuy I’m gonna guess the terrorists might’ve scoped out the building before the attack. If I’m remembering correctly, there was only one stairwell in the North Tower that managed to survive until the collapse, but nobody knew. That, or I’m thinking of the South Tower

Mehlodia You speaking of the South Tower. There was a stairwell that remained since the plane hit the building in a different angle than the North Tower. A few people from above the impact zone in the South Tower used that stairwell and got out of the building.

So the impact was like 4 or 5 floors above him holy shit dude

@@martymcfly4654. It was 2 floors above him but the 92d floor directly above him was rendered a fireball and no one escaped that floor either. The 91st floor was the absolute last floor that saw survivors in the north tower.

Thanks for the info, I take some comfort knowing he's recognized. I think about how many pre-9/11 videos of the WTC must show many of the people who were lost. Maybe in the future facial recognition will bring more instances to light.

Doesn’t get more heroic than that.

Considering what happened and the massive amounts of people in those buildings, it was amazing that the majority of the people made it out of the towers in a little over an hour. We mostly hear about the ones who lost their lives but they did a hell of a job evacuating the buildings that day in such a short amount of time. It's horrifying what happened to the ones on the upper floors but the 1st responders and building staff were actually very successful in saving the ones they could reach, given the horrible circumstances.

W. Long Frank DeMartini, Pablo Ortiz, Jose Marrero, Rick Rescorla, and John O’Neill were some of the real unsung heroes of that day, they all perished helping and leading others to safety.

@@MelJennette Yes! Rick Rescorla immediately got on his bullhorn and ordered the immediate evacuation of his company’s employees from the South Tower the moment he heard the impact of the plane in the North Tower. All of the people from his company made it out. He went back up the stairs to check and make sure everyone was out and that no one was left behind. The South Tower collapsed as he was doing that. He and a friend of his walked around the World Trade Center after the 93 bombing and looked for possible future attack methods. They both pointed up and said the next time the terrorists try, they will come in from the air. He was right on the money. He truly was a hero. He made his company do routine fire drills where they all had to walk down the steps to evacuate the buildings. Senior executives with that company were not too happy about those drills but he didn’t care what they thought. He forced them all to do the drills. He saved their lives that day more than likely. When the port authority came over the PA system and told everyone in the South Tower to remain in the building he said no way. We are evacuating now! Everyone knew exactly what to do and where to go. He cared about the safety of his company’s workers so much that he gave his life trying to ensure they were all out. What a person!

​@@jcolbyt82 Thanks I didn't this story, what a shame he didn't survive. I shouldn't but I laughed when I imagined is employés being fit as hell thanks to the drill

​@@theweakestlink2278exactly. I think sometimes we are so focused on the tragic loss of life that day that we overlook the fact that 10s of thousands of people survived due to the quick and orderly evacuation. Unfortunately the attack was simply un-survivable for those at and above the point of impact, but most of the people below the impact survived thanks to the efficient and relatively calm evacuation process.

With a typical fire there would be no reason to panic.

and speaking in the tone of reading a script

The people really did exit the stairs in a very orderly manner and helped each other on 9/11, they were very brave.

You're 100% accurate on that.

Probably a few of those people too

What's your point?

@Julian He means everything happened between 8am and noon.

Why y’all niggas gotta be so particular? Floors 20 and 23 existed at 8:45 am and destroyed by 10:29 am. Happy now? 😂 geez

Someone did that? If so cheers to them.

@@maria-melek Rick Rescorla

no one knew it was a terrorist attack when the first attack happened, that's why people in the south tower remained, plus, in the north tower, no one evacuated because around 25000 people worked in each building, so having thousands running down while firefighters are going up? That would be jam-packed with people, people criticized how stuff was handled on 9/11 no one takes into consideration the full side of each action.

Many people did evacuate. The messages were telling people that the damage was contained to the other building and did not tell people to go back. It just advised them that their building was not impacted at the time. Even so most people began to evacuate. Only 618 people died above impact zone vs over 1400 in north tower. Given that the north tower hit was much higher the number would have been much lower if the plane hit as high in the south tower. Also many of those who evacuated tried using the elevators on 78 and were killed on plane impact so of those 618 probably less than 500 chose to remain.

That person with the bullhorn was Rick Rescorla, Vietnam veteran survived the tet offensive only to die on 9/11.

Nowadays you don't.

In my college if you didn't leave when the fire alarm was going off and the firefighters caught you then it was a $500 fine

It’s not insulting anyone, it’s true.

@@glenistergrotj3022 it's insulting the disabled

@@rickhardman7376 - That's not at all what the video's comment was referring to. Work on your comprehension skills.

The main purpose of the stairs was to save the 2000 people above the fire. But since the three stairs of economical reasons was all together in the middle, they all perished.

Normally there were supposed to be 6 sets of stairs for each building but the Port Authority decided against it.

r e • It is quite eerie, considering.

Slow Whoop Tone.

Right

No, the people (a group of firemen and a lady) in north tower stairway B had to call on the radio for help. Initially, the others responded with “where’s the north tower?!”

@@ironmatic1 thats funny cause it collapsed and its like but if the tower is gone the stairs should be gone.

What was left of the stairway was buried in rubble. They had to be dug out.

@@ironmatic1 but how did the stair well survive?

About four stories up the stairway was protected by machinery and heavy walls. Below where the people were, everything was crushed in rubble, and above where they were, everything was crushed in the collapse.

That phone call protected the future perfectly

If you dont have training having a parachute is meaningless

@@ms.shinerayI would bet the people that fell from the top would have at least tried a parachute.

@@thatsmynamesowhat2949 yes they would, however parachuting is complex as I said without training to do so would have meant nothing and the scene could have get more gruesome

Luckily they made the stairways wider on the Freedom Tower.

Because they have thousands of people all on one floor? Plus how do we know this is the actual WTC in the video? The safety video could have been filmed in any building.

@@Fireglo nah its definitely the wtc

+J.J. We know this was filmed in the WTC because we know what the interior looked like. (the corridors and the lobby are shown here!) The fire alarm systems, stairway water extinguishers, stairway lighting and signs, Evac+Chairs, etc. are also known to have been in the WTC.

Teagan Alexander they also have second stairs for foreman only

@Pablo L. I dont think any of the rules in this video crossed the mind of anyone in the building. The only thing they were thinking about was get the fuck out as quick as possible. But that's just my opinion

what floor do you think this video set in?🤔

no buildings fire safety procedure could stand up to that

@@briana_patrick actually, these preparations (despite the corniness of this video content) made a HUGE difference. Office workers helped each other and exited in an orderly way without stampeding. That definitely made many thousands of people able to evacuate safely.

Not to be mean but it looked kinda boring

@@crazycars81 its the 90's and the video quality isnt as good and they only showed portions of the building

@@crazycars81 Understood.

@@crazycars81 it's a office ... people are there to work ... Why should it bother them how interesting the place looks

this is boring

normally in a non-plane crash fire, they'd use the roof for a helicopter escape, but couldn't on 9/11, because the doors to the roof were locked.

It went to Trump!

@Sanjee Anand and how is that funny?

Think they have giant blow up slides now.

I think the same if they had parachutes people could have got out. Or an outside lift so people could have got so far down then jumped onto a blow up mat???

@Ai Kinward yes they do lol. have to be trained to use em though.

They act like this new WTC is just gonna be completely safe. These fucks never do the same thing twice. And I’m convinced they’ll be back. But not by plane. It’ll be some equally fucked up thing. But no plane next time.

jason m. The new one is built to withstand a large amount of damage

Hahaha !

Yeah and that's why people died.

Go back to your desks and get to work!! There isn't a plane crashed into your building......... yet

They where trying to keep people Calm so it’s not a big panick and people running over each other most of them did not even know what happens when the first plane hit the were probably planing to evacuate calmly when the second plane hit and it was just a mess

Yeah effing right

She wasn't in a wheelchair....she had hurt her foot and that's what slowed them down

That’s not ironic that’s a coincidence

I read an article about this, it’s great that they survived. But the woman was not in a wheelchair, she had a car accident and was limping away, but not on a wheel chair during the evacuation.

There was a guy we helped get out because he was in a wheelchair. A guy went on either side of him, scooped up a leg in one arm and his arm in their other. Third guy was tall and just held the flattened wheelchair above his head. When we got to the bottom they plopped him back in it, told him to hold on, and we all ran for our lives with someone pushing him. Was way faster than this, but would only work with strong enough people there.

Same!

That’s exactly how I viewed the World Trade Center after learning of the 1993 & 2001 Attacks.

you didn’t understand what happened on 9/11? like… how?

Like I was young and worked endless hours while working in a small town with little communication. I didn't even know what the twin towers were until I got my first smart phone and videos popped up. I worked in a junk yard, a door factory and pulled side jobs with no time to watch TV or sit on the internet. Communication then and now is a world of difference.

@@mikeelang7329wtf? Communication was plentiful in 2001. Were you literally living in a cave?

​@@vacuumblink2300I think he simply meant that he was busy with life and most likely didn't have the access to them.

@@vacuumblink2300 like I said I worked endless hours and lived in a small town while rarely watching tv. Nothing like blowing this out of proportion. My cave was work and more work welcome to the American dream!

KZfaq "Israeli truck bombs on 9/11" good luck if you intend on going down the rabbit hole..

They said 98% of fires.

visionquest414 Literally no one cares

i know....you are a perfect example of what's wrong with society. "i don't really care"

Chicago Skater I don't even remember the Smoke Alarm working!

You worked at the WTC?

Jackson C. no sprinklers that's crazy !!!!!

That call from Kevin is haunting, a lot of my friends are friends with his kids, I am from Long Island and it’s just erie

Literally

I would not want to work there.. at all if I were a New Yorker.. it was a death trap.

So did the workers...

@@DangAssDan sick. But i did smirk..

Y’all are a group of pieces of shits aren’t u!! My grandfather died in building two!!

@@aaron7379 sorry for your loss dude...

@@DangAssDan got admit that was funny. This comment was not a bit abhorrent

Carina Becker in so afraid of tall buildings and air planes always was

Why would any one think of a heinous act happening to any building

@@alleyezonamanda1636 because it is high rise.

@@alleyezonamanda1636 planes have hit buildings before then but on accident. The wtc was built to withstand 717s, not 757s or 767s

@@realthefew *707

Alex White ... I miss the 90s

I would be curious to know how many high paid executives made it out vs low paid workers.

There is a phone call of one of them. He was conscious until the building collapsed. Apparently, the smoke was getting pretty bad. His call suggests there was rising panic due to smoke inhalation rather than building stability.

@@04nbod In the north tower's case I imagine most people were either burned, passed out and burned, or jumped, with only a few pockets such as that guy who I think was in a corner of the floor with the wind blowing smoke away.

Everyone has good listening skills but for once they must disobey just to save your life

They were told not to leave the South Tower. The South Tower wasn't hit first and there was no reason to believe at that time that the South Tower would be hit. So of course they were told to stay put. Same reason why even now there's a fire on one floor only a floor or to above and below are evacuated in the rest of the floors stand by until told otherwise.

@@napsterbater I understand what occurred and why they were told to stay. I was just saying how crazy it be to realize you're trapped and were told to stay put.

one of the victims of the south tower was speaking to her mum on her phone who told her to get her things together and leave the building which she went to do only to be told to remain in her sat in the office something like 10 minutes later the second plane hits the south tower it's crazy how no one was allowed to leave the building

Below impact zone 99% of people survived.

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Why only 99% ?

@@davepowell7168 people in wheelchairs

@@rickhardman7376 People in wheelchairs can be very swiftly guided downstairs with little effort

@@davepowell7168 Not down 90 flights of stairs in a emergency like 9/11 with narrow stair cases