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Miracles emerge from debris By Dennis Cauchon and Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY

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The bodies of 2,803 human beings were buried when the World Trade Center crumbled into 3 billion pounds of debris. Miraculously, 20 people survived the collapse, amid steel beams, concrete slabs and other wreckage. They escaped death in the most unlikely of ways and in the most surprising of places. Fourteen people survived inside the remnants of a stairwell at the center of the north tower. One man remembers falling from a 22nd floor stairwell in the north tower and regaining consciousness atop the 12-story-deep pile of rubble at Ground Zero. Two police officers, trapped in debris between the towers, barely survived both collapses. New York firefighters, from left, Matt Komorowski, Billy Butler, John Jonas and Sal D'Agostino survived the collapse inside a stairwell. By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY

USA TODAY took a comprehensive look at who survived the collapse and why. The newspaper interviewed nine survivors and consulted construction experts and the architectural and engineering plans of the twin towers. The survivors had one thing in common: All ended up near the top of the debris. When the buildings fell — the south tower at 9:59 a.m., the north tower at 10:28 a.m. — the towers compacted into a rubble pile that filled a six-story basement and rose six stories above ground. Other people — no one knows how many — also survived the immediate collapse. They were heard on fire department radios, or their bodies, with no apparent

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The New York Times, January 30, 2002 Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company The New York Times January 30, 2002, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk LENGTH: 2267 words HEADLINE: A NATION CHALLENGED: FIREFIGHTING INQUIRY; Before the Towers Fell, Fire Dept. Fought Chaos BYLINE: By JIM DWYER and KEVIN FLYNN BODY: In scores of emotionally searing interviews conducted by the Fire Department for an internal inquiry, the agency's most senior commanders have provided new and, in some cases, alarming revelations about the events of Sept. 11.

They said they had little reliable radio communication that morning, could not keep track of all the firefighters who entered the towers, and were unable to reach them as the threat of a collapse became unmistakable. The commanders decided early on that roaring fires on the high floors of the towers could not be subdued. Many worried aloud that the buildings were in danger of at least partial failure. Confusion extended, for some, to which tower was which. Although they feared that the buildings were doomed, they could not bring their troops back in time. One chief estimated that at the moment the north tower fell, nearly every civilian below the floors directly hit by the airplane had already evacuated, and that only firefighters remained inside the stairwells of a building that was seen as a lost cause. So poor were communications that on one side of the trade center complex, in the city's emergency management headquarters, a city engineer warned officials that the towers were at risk of "near imminent collapse," but those he told could not reach the highest-ranking fire chief by radio. Instead, a messenger was sent across acres, dodging flaming debris and falling bodies, to deliver this assessment in person. He arrived with the news less than a minute before the first tower fell. Taken together, the interviews with virtually every surviving member of the department's top command offer the most detailed and intimate portrait yet of the strategy and problems on Sept. 11. By themselves, they do not answer difficult questions such as whether lives might have been saved with different equipment or procedures. But for the department and the city, officials said, these accounts will be a starting point in an inquiry about the Fire Department's emergency response procedures. For history, these accounts accomplish a separate but equally rich task: they mark with precision acts of bravery, struggles to live, and the widespread feelings of being unmoored from reality on that sunny morning.

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1 of 3 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Cable News Network All Rights Reserved CNN.com September 16, 2001 Sunday SECTION: U.S. LENGTH: 702 words HEADLINE: Government failed to react to FAA warning DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: Following Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the WorldTrade Center, and for at least 12 minutes after the Federal AviationAdministration (FAA) warned the military's air defense command that a hijackedairliner appeared to be headed toward Washington, the federal government failedto make any move to evacuate the White House, Capitol, State Department or thePentagon, which was the eventual target of the attack, senior Defense Department officials told CNN. Only after the 9:38 a.m. impact into the side of the Pentagon were othergovernment buildings evacuated, including the White House and the Capitol. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) at Peterson AirForce Base in Colorado was informed by the FAA at 9:25 a.m. that United Airlines flight 77 might have been hijacked and appeared headed toward Washington. Military officials at NORAD ordered fighter jets from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to intercept the flight, but neither the FAA, NORAD, nor any other federal government organ made any effort to evacuate the buildings in Washington. Officials at the Pentagon said that no mechanism existed within the U.S.government to notify various departments and agencies under such circumstances. Officials also told CNN that President George W. Bush had not given authorization to the Defense Department to shoot down a passenger airliner until after the Pentagon had been struck. Officials at the Pentagon also said that they were never made aware of the threat from hijacked United Airlines flight 93 until after it crashed in Pennsylvania. The informed defense officials laid out a timeline of the events surrounding the series of terrorist attacks as follows: (Times are EOT and reflect actual, rather than scheduled departure times of flights.) --7:59 a.m.: American Airlines flight 11 takes off from Boston's Loganlnternational Airport. —8:14 a.m.: United Airlines flight 175 takes off from Boston's Loganlnternational Airport.

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