There’s so many criticizing this video but I don’t think some of you experts realize this video wasn’t a “Incase an airplane crashes into your tower” how to guide
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.
@@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)!!!
As much as people don’t think so; this video and training came in handy on 9/11. I’ve watched countless survivors stories. People did exactly what was instructed to do in this video. Even so much as to get handicapped coworkers into their safety chairs. People checked the bathrooms and made sure their floors were cleared. The safety officer for one company died because he stayed behind trying to make sure every last person was evacuated. We may roll our eyes when we have to watch videos like this but the fact is, this video saved a lot of lives that day. Those above the impact zone in the north tower unfortunately didn’t have a chance as the stairways were all cut off by the plane. Rest in peace to everyone who lost their lives on 9/11
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.
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.
@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
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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”
@@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
I made this video in 1996. I know it seems cheesy. We made these all over the country. They were not meant to be expert videos on how to react to an emergency. They were, instead, supposed to be video summary of what a worker would find in their fire safety manual.
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 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?
The fact that less then 3,000 people died is insane considering how many people where inside at the time irregardless an absolute tragedy that should NEVER be forgotten
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
The man at 2:55 is Lawrence F Boisseau, he was killed on 9/11. I believe there's a 911 call of him trying to guide paramedics to burnt victims in the south tower.
Most only think about the people who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, and of course they should always be in our thoughts. But what few realize is that the vast majority of people for whom it was possible to escape did so. Out of the estimated 17,400 people in both towers at the moment Flight 11 hit the North Tower 11 out of 12 or 91.6% lived. And keep in mind that no one in or above the impact zone in the North Tower had the chance to escape because Flight 11 destroyed all three stairwells, and about 200 people were killed or sufficiently injured by Flight 175 in the South Tower's sky lobby as soon as the plane hit. The evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11th was incredibly successful. The vast majority of people who could have escaped did.
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
0:48 Imagine being a firefighter having to climb those stairs, carrying all that equipment. Rolls of hose, entry tools, spare air tanks, as well as their normal gear up all those flights of stairs. You would have to stop and take a break several times before you even got to where the fire was. By that time, you would be told to evacuate and you would have to go back down all those stairs, already give out from climbing the stairs. Most firefighters that died that day died trying to escape the towers. Rest in peace to the firefighters, police, EMS, and victims of this senseless tragedy.
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.
Sadly in the North Tower, the angle and location of impact completely severred the elevator shaft and all stairwells as well as the sprinkler systems. It also hit the building so hard that the doors to the roof were completely jammed. No one at or above the impact zone survived. Not a single person.
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 😔
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.
Who would of thought 4 or 5 years later these people would have been through the worst real life danger anyone of them could have ever imagined. Rest In Peace.
@@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!
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!
This video is a sad reminder how no matter how well you prepare for actual disaster, it's hardly gonna matter when the most unexpected of things happen. Just incredibly eerie.....😔💔💔💔
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.
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
I always get chills while looking at the inside of the WTC. I always just imagine "Welp, all those walls, phones, doors, glass panes, and floors are in rubble now..."
2:55 the guy on radio - "Mr. Boisseau, a Freehold resident who went by Larry, was on duty on the 91st floor of the North Tower, showing around representatives of the new owners of the Twin Towers, when the first hijacked jetliner struck the North Tower, survivors told his wife. Mr. Boisseau, who had worked as a contract employee for the Port Authority for eight years, sprang into action. With other fire safety directors, he broke the glass of a nursery, pulling several children to safety. That done, he was directed to go to the command post on the ground floor of the South Tower. There, he helped direct fleeing office workers and firefighters before the South Tower collapsed, killing him, his wife said. He was 36." - He was last spotted helping Paramedics in the lobby directing them upstairs.
@@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.
This would've been very helpful in theory, and I'm sure many people probably did these exact jobs, fulfilling their responsibilities on September 11. But, there was no fire in the copy room, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of panic and chaos set in for the people working in those buildings. My heart breaks as I watch it, all these years later, still such a tragedy. Very sad for the families and friends of those who lost someone that day.
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.
I don't know about the actors, but ladder/engine 10 featured in the video lost 5 firefighters and the fire house was destroyed and took years to rebuild. Crazy.
With all jokes aside, think about this. All of what you see existed before 8AM on 9/11/2001, then everything was destroyed on 9/11/2001 on your lunch hour.
Once the first building hit EVERYONE should've been evacuated. Huge hats off to someone who went in with a bullhorn and told everyone to get out even after they'd been told to go back. God bless everyone who lost their lives and the loved ones of those who were murdered.
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.
7:14 and years later (if thats the north tower) stair well B will be a hero to many people. And i bet the people at the rubble said check stair well B for survivors.
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?!”
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.
(The sound the fire alarm) This tone is somewhat spooky for me as it will always bring back memories of what I saw (on TV) that day. I remember it from the videos taken in the lobbies where rescue efforts were being executed just after the planes hit. If I could pick a sound to describe the events of 9/11 at the WTC, this would be it.
On September 11, 2001, five members from the Ten House made the supreme sacrifice. Lieutenant Gregg Atlas, Firefighter Jeffrey Olsen, Firefighter Paul Pansini were from Engine 10, and Lieutenant Stephen Harrell and Firefighter Sean Tallon were from Ladder 10.
I love how she says “there will always be people who are uncooperative, you shouldn’t ever risk your life for some would be tycoon” lol you don’t ever really see safety instructional videos insult people who may not abide!
Look how narrow those halls are. And the stairwells are way to small and narrow too. And if thousands are pouring into these halls and stairwells - you've got a disaster.
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.
+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.
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
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.
This is so eerie, hearing the alarm, seeing the staircase, lobby.....when years later we would hear and see this in totally different type of videos and photos. Such a sad, horrific day, 9/11.
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???
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.
Ever since I was a kid, I thought that there should be parachutes for everyone that are on higher floors where firetruck ladders couldn't reach especially on skyscrapers. As an adult man, I still think this. There should be parachute kits in addition to fire hose emergency kits and medical aid kits on all higher floors of a building.
@@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
@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
@@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.
This is the first time I see the offices so close, so eerie and unsettling to see many people doing a simulacrum not knowing they were going to do it years later in a real panicking way
I couldn’t imagine.... I’m glad to see what the old WTC looked like though. Beautiful building. Also be mindful some in this video didnt make it out that awful day.
Its very ironic that this video focusses on stairway b and involves a person in a wheel chair, because this scenario actually played out on 9/11/01 remember the story "miricle of stairwell B", in short, a lady in the wheel chair slowed down the ny firefighters helping her evacuate, wich led them all, to end up in stairwell B, wich ultimately saved all their lives.
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.
They obviously remembered what happened in 1993, and some people died, but they had no idea the scale of 9/11. These drills weren’t any good because there was no planning or way to get people out at the impact zones on 9/11. The smoke rising and the immense heat and blocked stairwells and elevators this was just a disaster waiting to happen.
We had similar annual drills in the building as an employee and were assigned specific roles (without the caps)... My department was on the 5th floor, even before 9/11; I always suffered from acrophobia ( fear of heights ) and dredded the prospect of breaking out of the window if the stairwells were blocked but was always assured that firefighters had ladders that could at least reach up to the 5th floor...🚒
I remember coming back from lunch at work and people telling me we were attacked.? I really didnt totally understand until years later when i researched it. The sad reality was so addictive to research over and over and find videos and better answers of why and how did this happen. Living in Wisconsin not a city person but this still hits home more and more as time goes on. RIP to those in the video that perhaps still worked there at that time. Kind of haunting to watch!....
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.
@@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!
It's a great insight to how offices looked like in the towers, quite crampt, walls and partitions. U would not know what was happening that fateful day. I feel very sad watching this.
1 WTC and 2 WTC had a MXL system from Siemens. 7 WTC had an 8500 system. 1 and 2 WTC had a full fire alarm system, with no sprinklers. 7 WTC had a tone + 3 beeps.
Its so eerie that the floor warden held the door open to stairwell B. Also look how thin the wall was between the stairwell and the adjacent hallway, it never stood a chance
Also anyone notice they used Tower 1 and Stairway B? A coincidence that in the North Tower the miracle of stairway B. It's like the safety video blessed that sairway.
7:27-7:52 sounds like the telephone calls from the WTC on 9/11. Especially when he was mentioning the different floors his voice reminded me a lot of Kevin Cosgrove who was stuck above the impact point in the South Tower and called out "105th floor I can hardly see" Gave me a bit of PTSD to be honest.
Stairway B was where a group of firefighters and a lady were found alive. She stopped on the 4th floor saying she couldn’t go any farther just a few moments before North Tower collapsed
2:37 Ugh, my mom used to work in the south tower in the 80’s (not after that!) but she’s still a born and raised New Yorker. She brought our family home several shirts that said “Ten House: Still Standing” in the years following the attacks. My heart breaks for everyone from that station, as well as every first responder, who made the ultimate sacrifice that day.
This is SO chilling.. noone would even begin to imagine the horror film that would actually happen. But it's impressive that so many people managed to survive. Would never ever work in a tall building.
This reminded me that when I saw the one building in 1998 is still had concealed grid ceilings, something I never see any more except in my own home. I really hate the lay in panels and offices today too cheap to have any ceilings.
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.
watching this gives me chills. i work on mxl fire panels in dtla. hearing that specific audio tone in certain buildings gives me the chills. makes me take my job serious. rip to all the people who were lost
Estimates of casualties in the towers on 9/11 were 10,000 to 50,000. Lives lost were around 600 in 2 WTC and 1600 in 1 WTC not including emergency responders or those on planes.
It's always eerie to see the inside of this place I guess the one thing those extinguishers couldn't put out was the jet fuel it typically would sperate from water and keep burning hell the water likely even spread it
Anyone know what year fire alarms in commercial buildings were standardized to the three subsequent screeches they are today? I've never heard a fire alarm like the one in this video, although I've seen alarm speakers like that in older (pre-2000's) commercial buildings
Code 3 was already standardized at this time, for horns. The WTC buildings with the Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL system (notably 1 and 2) had voice evacuation that played the whoop tone and allowed a fire safety director to interrupt and give instructions (as shown in the video). The horn shown in the video is a Wheelock 34-24 from the older original fire system of the WTC. The sound is from the new system, a control panel of which can be seen at 3:03. The smoke detector shown is also an older CP DI-2 from the original and not a newer one. At this time and all the way to 9/11, the MXL system was still in the process of replacing the old one.
It's so so terrible that on the day of September 11, 2001 people were told to not leave and who knows how many that affected. Imagine then being trapped and realizing your fate all because you obeyed the PA. Crazy.
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.
There’s so many criticizing this video but I don’t think some of you experts realize this video wasn’t a “Incase an airplane crashes into your tower” how to guide
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.
For those wondering, this was released in 1996, after the 93 bombing.
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
As much as people don’t think so; this video and training came in handy on 9/11. I’ve watched countless survivors stories. People did exactly what was instructed to do in this video. Even so much as to get handicapped coworkers into their safety chairs. People checked the bathrooms and made sure their floors were cleared. The safety officer for one company died because he stayed behind trying to make sure every last person was evacuated. We may roll our eyes when we have to watch videos like this but the fact is, this video saved a lot of lives that day. Those above the impact zone in the north tower unfortunately didn’t have a chance as the stairways were all cut off by the plane. Rest in peace to everyone who lost their lives on 9/11
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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.
This has to be the most interior shots of the World Trade Center that I have ever seen, nice to see what the building looked like on the inside.
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
The guards told everyone to stay put and even sent them back up. Sometimes authority must be ignored.
@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
0:16 These sirens must have haunted every single survivor from the Twin Towers. This was what they were hearing as disaster ensued...
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
0:12 "This is the sound no one wants to hear". Wow. This is the sound we heard in the final figher fighter call video when they reached the 77th floor
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?
Damn after seeing the video i can finally get an image of what it looked like during 9/11
yungprod 03 there’s a documentary about it, with footage inside the Towers.
Those sprinklers fucking burned
ua-cam.com/video/RXkfs8KjRSc/v-deo.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
I made this video in 1996. I know it seems cheesy. We made these all over the country. They were not meant to be expert videos on how to react to an emergency. They were, instead, supposed to be video summary of what a worker would find in their fire safety manual.
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?
The fact that less then 3,000 people died is insane considering how many people where inside at the time irregardless an absolute tragedy that should NEVER be forgotten
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".
As I watch this, I wonder how many of those people were lost in the attacks.
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.
The man at 2:55 is Lawrence F Boisseau, he was killed on 9/11. I believe there's a 911 call of him trying to guide paramedics to burnt victims in the south tower.
I remember seeing his photo on the voices center for resilience webpage
There is. I came from that video to see him here. RIP😢
Most only think about the people who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, and of course they should always be in our thoughts. But what few realize is that the vast majority of people for whom it was possible to escape did so.
Out of the estimated 17,400 people in both towers at the moment Flight 11 hit the North Tower 11 out of 12 or 91.6% lived. And keep in mind that no one in or above the impact zone in the North Tower had the chance to escape because Flight 11 destroyed all three stairwells, and about 200 people were killed or sufficiently injured by Flight 175 in the South Tower's sky lobby as soon as the plane hit.
The evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11th was incredibly successful. The vast majority of people who could have escaped did.
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"
0:48
Imagine being a firefighter having to climb those stairs, carrying all that equipment. Rolls of hose, entry tools, spare air tanks, as well as their normal gear up all those flights of stairs. You would have to stop and take a break several times before you even got to where the fire was. By that time, you would be told to evacuate and you would have to go back down all those stairs, already give out from climbing the stairs. Most firefighters that died that day died trying to escape the towers. Rest in peace to the firefighters, police, EMS, and victims of this senseless tragedy.
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
Sadly in the North Tower, the angle and location of impact completely severred the elevator shaft and all stairwells as well as the sprinkler systems. It also hit the building so hard that the doors to the roof were completely jammed. No one at or above the impact zone survived. Not a single person.
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.
Who would of thought 4 or 5 years later these people would have been through the worst real life danger anyone of them could have ever imagined. Rest In Peace.
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!
The sirens of the wtc were the last things some people ever heard and they are haunting
4:11 "There's admittedly no such thing as a typical fire emergency..."
Yeah that quote did not age well.
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It's true.
This video is a sad reminder how no matter how well you prepare for actual disaster, it's hardly gonna matter when the most unexpected of things happen. Just incredibly eerie.....😔💔💔💔
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
I love how when they do these videos of how the process is supposed to go everyone is walking around so calm cool and collected.
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.
I always get chills while looking at the inside of the WTC. I always just imagine "Welp, all those walls, phones, doors, glass panes, and floors are in rubble now..."
2:55 the guy on radio - "Mr. Boisseau, a Freehold resident who went by Larry, was on duty on the 91st floor of the North Tower, showing around representatives of the new owners of the Twin Towers, when the first hijacked jetliner struck the North Tower, survivors told his wife.
Mr. Boisseau, who had worked as a contract employee for the Port Authority for eight years, sprang into action. With other fire safety directors, he broke the glass of a nursery, pulling several children to safety. That done, he was directed to go to the command post on the ground floor of the South Tower.
There, he helped direct fleeing office workers and firefighters before the South Tower collapsed, killing him, his wife said. He was 36." - He was last spotted helping Paramedics in the lobby directing them upstairs.
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.
This is so ... just Erie to watch ...
This would've been very helpful in theory, and I'm sure many people probably did these exact jobs, fulfilling their responsibilities on September 11. But, there was no fire in the copy room, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of panic and chaos set in for the people working in those buildings. My heart breaks as I watch it, all these years later, still such a tragedy. Very sad for the families and friends of those who lost someone that day.
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.
I don't know about the actors, but ladder/engine 10 featured in the video lost 5 firefighters and the fire house was destroyed and took years to rebuild. Crazy.
With all jokes aside, think about this. All of what you see existed before 8AM on 9/11/2001, then everything was destroyed on 9/11/2001 on your lunch hour.
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
Once the first building hit EVERYONE should've been evacuated. Huge hats off to someone who went in with a bullhorn and told everyone to get out even after they'd been told to go back. God bless everyone who lost their lives and the loved ones of those who were murdered.
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.
7:14 and years later (if thats the north tower) stair well B will be a hero to many people. And i bet the people at the rubble said check stair well B for survivors.
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.
The sound of that siren gave me chills knowing the last time it must have been heard
cant imagine everything in this video is gone. all the rooms, equipments, doors, everything.
(The sound the fire alarm) This tone is somewhat spooky for me as it will always bring back memories of what I saw (on TV) that day. I remember it from the videos taken in the lobbies where rescue efforts were being executed just after the planes hit. If I could pick a sound to describe the events of 9/11 at the WTC, this would be it.
r e • It is quite eerie, considering.
Slow Whoop Tone.
Right
4:11 "There is admittedly no such thing as a typical fire emergency". She was right about that!.
It's amazing to get such a good look inside the WTC. I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
On September 11, 2001, five members from the Ten House made the supreme sacrifice. Lieutenant Gregg Atlas, Firefighter Jeffrey Olsen, Firefighter Paul Pansini were from Engine 10, and Lieutenant Stephen Harrell and Firefighter Sean Tallon were from Ladder 10.
The phone call part gave me chills.
That phone call protected the future perfectly
I love how she says “there will always be people who are uncooperative, you shouldn’t ever risk your life for some would be tycoon” lol you don’t ever really see safety instructional videos insult people who may not abide!
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.
Look how narrow those halls are. And the stairwells are way to small and narrow too. And if thousands are pouring into these halls and stairwells - you've got a disaster.
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
"there is no reason to panic!"
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
those stairs were the only things that saved the victim's lives
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.
God, I can't help but think about the horrows that happened in those halways and stairwells. Its just heartbreaking...
The inside of the towers were so beautiful to me❤️🥺
This is so eerie, hearing the alarm, seeing the staircase, lobby.....when years later we would hear and see this in totally different type of videos and photos. Such a sad, horrific day, 9/11.
I think they should put parachutes into the upper floors of One World Trade Center
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
Ever since I was a kid, I thought that there should be parachutes for everyone that are on higher floors where firetruck ladders couldn't reach especially on skyscrapers.
As an adult man, I still think this. There should be parachute kits in addition to fire hose emergency kits and medical aid kits on all higher floors of a building.
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
The sprinklers didn't work
UA-cam "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!
None of this would matter on that fateful September morning.
@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.
This is the first time I see the offices so close, so eerie and unsettling to see many people doing a simulacrum not knowing they were going to do it years later in a real panicking way
I couldn’t imagine.... I’m glad to see what the old WTC looked like though. Beautiful building. Also be mindful some in this video didnt make it out that awful day.
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
Its very ironic that this video focusses on stairway b and involves a person in a wheel chair, because this scenario actually played out on 9/11/01 remember the story "miricle of stairwell B", in short, a lady in the wheel chair slowed down the ny firefighters helping her evacuate, wich led them all, to end up in stairwell B, wich ultimately saved all their lives.
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.
They obviously remembered what happened in 1993, and some people died, but they had no idea the scale of 9/11. These drills weren’t any good because there was no planning or way to get people out at the impact zones on 9/11. The smoke rising and the immense heat and blocked stairwells and elevators this was just a disaster waiting to happen.
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.
6:38 he forgot to check the last stall, that red hat's gonna go to someone else.
It went to Trump!
@Sanjee Anand and how is that funny?
We had similar annual drills in the building as an employee and were assigned specific roles (without the caps)... My department was on the 5th floor, even before 9/11; I always suffered from acrophobia ( fear of heights ) and dredded the prospect of breaking out of the window if the stairwells were blocked but was always assured that firefighters had ladders that could at least reach up to the 5th floor...🚒
I remember coming back from lunch at work and people telling me we were attacked.? I really didnt totally understand until years later when i researched it. The sad reality was so addictive to research over and over and find videos and better answers of why and how did this happen. Living in Wisconsin not a city person but this still hits home more and more as time goes on. RIP to those in the video that perhaps still worked there at that time. Kind of haunting to watch!....
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!
As someone that works in an office building this information is still vital today
This video went right out the window on 911
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
It's a great insight to how offices looked like in the towers, quite crampt, walls and partitions. U would not know what was happening that fateful day. I feel very sad watching this.
1 WTC and 2 WTC had a MXL system from Siemens. 7 WTC had an 8500 system. 1 and 2 WTC had a full fire alarm system, with no sprinklers. 7 WTC had a tone + 3 beeps.
Jackson C. no sprinklers that's crazy !!!!!
Its so eerie that the floor warden held the door open to stairwell B. Also look how thin the wall was between the stairwell and the adjacent hallway, it never stood a chance
I've never before seen so much footage of the upper floors of the Trade Center before
I can’t get enough of these beautiful buildings. 😢❤
It is so strange to know everything in that video isn't here anymore, and those people in that video could have died.
Also anyone notice they used Tower 1 and Stairway B? A coincidence that in the North Tower the miracle of stairway B. It's like the safety video blessed that sairway.
7:27-7:52 sounds like the telephone calls from the WTC on 9/11. Especially when he was mentioning the different floors his voice reminded me a lot of Kevin Cosgrove who was stuck above the impact point in the South Tower and called out "105th floor I can hardly see" Gave me a bit of PTSD to be honest.
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
Wow! This building was gorgeous!
This is so chilling to know that there was an actual tragedy that would hit them 💔
Literally
I would not want to work there.. at all if I were a New Yorker.. it was a death trap.
I don’t think anyone involved in this video or the making of the WTC ever thought a plane would bring it down. Aviation fuel is serious business.
I remember having to watch these. Who would’ve thought?
You worked at the WTC?
I used to be fascinated by sky scrapers, now I just see them as potential death traps
Same!
That’s exactly how I viewed the World Trade Center after learning of the 1993 & 2001 Attacks.
😭Back when life was great, god i miss the 90s and early 2000s
they never thought of the building being attacked with planes and collapsing so soon after.
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
Sad on 9/11 alot of ppl were still at their desk on the phone working they had no idea they were in danger before building collapse
Eerie
Legend has it. The one guy is still at his desk trying to close the deal…
I can’t believe they said “your not expected to risk your live for some would be tycoon” lmao
Alex White ... I miss the 90s
I would be curious to know how many high paid executives made it out vs low paid workers.
Stairway B was where a group of firefighters and a lady were found alive. She stopped on the 4th floor saying she couldn’t go any farther just a few moments before North Tower collapsed
2:37 Ugh, my mom used to work in the south tower in the 80’s (not after that!) but she’s still a born and raised New Yorker. She brought our family home several shirts that said “Ten House: Still Standing” in the years following the attacks. My heart breaks for everyone from that station, as well as every first responder, who made the ultimate sacrifice that day.
This video was in ‘96. The guy in the video had a calendar on his wall so all those people could have possibly been there that day so sad 😞
Everyone seems so calm with wardens and stuff
All of that went to absolute hell
I can’t help but wonder how many people in this video are no longer with us.
This is SO chilling.. noone would even begin to imagine the horror film that would actually happen. But it's impressive that so many people managed to survive. Would never ever work in a tall building.
That sure looked like it was from a VHS TAPE! I love vintage things!
The alert sound is absolutely haunting.
This reminded me that when I saw the one building in 1998 is still had concealed grid ceilings, something I never see any more except in my own home. I really hate the lay in panels and offices today too cheap to have any ceilings.
Man, this hits different now.
This is so sad 😢
That alarm is haunting.
I cant imagine what the people above the impacted floors went through. May god rest their souls
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.
watching this gives me chills. i work on mxl fire panels in dtla. hearing that specific audio tone in certain buildings gives me the chills.
makes me take my job serious. rip to all the people who were lost
New York City has so many actors. You’d think they could have found a few for the speaking roles.
"The fire prevention and safety features of the world trade center are as good as you'll find in a high rise building"
At 06:38 the man in the toilet cracked me up, this same thing happened to me once in our company fire drill 😂
Estimates of casualties in the towers on 9/11 were 10,000 to 50,000. Lives lost were around 600 in 2 WTC and 1600 in 1 WTC not including emergency responders or those on planes.
Those poor people in the upper floors had no chance at all.
It's always eerie to see the inside of this place I guess the one thing those extinguishers couldn't put out was the jet fuel it typically would sperate from water and keep burning hell the water likely even spread it
there was no jet fuel lol
this was handy thanks for uploading!!!
Anyone know what year fire alarms in commercial buildings were standardized to the three subsequent screeches they are today? I've never heard a fire alarm like the one in this video, although I've seen alarm speakers like that in older (pre-2000's) commercial buildings
Code 3 was already standardized at this time, for horns. The WTC buildings with the Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL system (notably 1 and 2) had voice evacuation that played the whoop tone and allowed a fire safety director to interrupt and give instructions (as shown in the video).
The horn shown in the video is a Wheelock 34-24 from the older original fire system of the WTC. The sound is from the new system, a control panel of which can be seen at 3:03. The smoke detector shown is also an older CP DI-2 from the original and not a newer one. At this time and all the way to 9/11, the MXL system was still in the process of replacing the old one.
I believe speakers remain standard for very tall buildings.
It's so so terrible that on the day of September 11, 2001 people were told to not leave and who knows how many that affected. Imagine then being trapped and realizing your fate all because you obeyed the PA. Crazy.
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.
A fire drill and real fire are 2 different things all the smoke and the damaged staircase played a bring role in lost of life.
Max it’s me Eddie I love you
9/11 wasn’t just a fire.
Chilling... Rest in peace to all. 💔💔💔
Thus video was produced in 1996 but i swear that music makes it sound like its from 1977