10:28 a.m. The North Tower collapses, 29 minutes after the South Tower fell, both from burning jet fuel and destroyed supports. Fireman Richard Carletti saw the antenna “do a little rock back and forth, and I could just hear the floors pancaking. I heard it for about thirty pancakes . . . boom, boom, boom, boom.”
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9:59 a.m. Businessmen flee the tsunami of dust and ash from the fall of the South Tower.
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11:02 a.m. Officials decide to evacuate all of Lower Manhattan.
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9:37 a.m. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld picked up a piece of wreckage after the attack. “American Airlines …” he muttered.
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10:05 a.m. Fire chaplain Mychal Judge, killed by debris from the South Tower collapse, became Victim 0001.
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10:15 a.m. “We’re alive, we’re alive, oh my God, we’re alive,” a woman cried as fleeing workers huddled in the lobby of 2 John St.
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12:30 p.m. 14 people are rescued from the rubble of the North Tower, having survived in a stairwell. The last person found alive was saved at 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 12.
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10:03 a.m. For four minutes, passengers fought the terrorists for control of the plane.
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