From the archives: Man who worked on 91st floor at World Trade Center describes how he survived
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Richard Anderson, who worked on the 91st floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center, describes how he managed to survive the attacks. (story from Sept. 14, 2001)
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The 91st was the very highest floor of the North Tower where people could escape. Everyone from 92 and up died. Very fortunate man, hope he's doing well nowadays.
March 6, 2022 4:20 pm
Yeah I was just wondering myself if he's still alive since that interview with all those years ago ... hope he is still thriving .... you're not kidding about him being very blessed , wow .
A lady named Yvette Moreno called her mom to say she had safely escaped from her receptionist job on the 92nd floor of the North Tower at Carr Futures after the plane had hit I wonder if this lady was somehow the only person to have escaped from the 92nd floor and got down to the bottom and out of the Tower. However, she bought a cell phone that in which she called her mom with. Unfortunately, when the South Tower collapsed it fell on her and killed her. We may never know but if she did escape it was the highest floor anyone escaped from
@@whattheheck1000 Well I know most people on the 92nd floor of the north tower were trapped in a conference room they couldn't get out of. None of them realized they could break through the walls because they were sheetrock or plaster board. If it hadn't been for those one guys Frank and Pablo I don't think anyone on the 88th or 89th floor would have survived either. On the 90th and 91st floor it may have been a combination of people finding the stairwell and Frank and Pablo helping them. I think everyone on the 91st floor made it out and possibly even the 90th. There were still a few fatalities from the 88th and 89tn floor. The only thing I could only imagine what would have happened is they may have been stuck in a room. I am not sure if they burned to death, suffocated, jumped to their deaths or died in the collapse. I thought most if not all the people who fell or jumped out were on the impact floors and above. Like I said there was a meeting at Carr Futures on the 92nd floor and that Yvette Moreno was receptionist for that group. So whether she somehow did escape from the 92nd floor it would have been probably a miracle. Type in a Google search on Yvette Moreno. Put something like Yvette Moreno called her mom to say she had safely escaped from her office on the 92nd floor after the plane hit.
@@cubby091398Interesting that you bring up the story of Yvette Moreno. Before hearing her story, I was under the initial assumption that nobody above 91 survived. After hearing her story I thought "oh she probably lied to her mom to calm her down and never actually escaped the building"...but she did. There's a New York Post article, dated 9/29/01, stating that her phone was located in the Bronx after someone purchased it from a guy selling it on the street; they never found the guy (the person who bought it listened to the voicemails on it that Yvette's friends and family had left in case it was found). How could her phone end up in-tact outside ground zero if she never made it out? Less than a week later, on her birthday no less, her body was found under the Vesey Street bridge that connected the WTC plaza to the WFC over the West side highway. Seeing as there are several stories from 91st floor survivors stating that as soon as they reached the North Tower lobby the South Tower collapsed I can only surmise that she was killed by the north tower collapse. This is how I think it happened based on information available and my own speculation: Yvette was on the 92nd floor working as a receptionist at Carr Futures. Most of the offices officially opened at 9AM, clearly people were in the building at their offices before that time, but for a receptionist I can only imagine she would need to be there at 9AM, not earlier like an analyst/trader/broker who wanted to get an early start on a big day ahead. Therefore, I have to assume she wasn't at the front desk of Carr Futures at 8:46. Because if she was, the call her brother received roughly 20 minutes after the first plane hit, would have been of a distressed Yvette explaining that she was alive but trapped on her floor - not of her safely reaching the outside of the building. There is no way that she could have made it out of the building down 92 flights of stairs nearly an hour before the people on the 91st floor finally made it out. So let's say sometime between 9AM and 9:10AM Yvette made it out safely - thats when she made the call. For some reason, she stays at ground zero rather than making it to safety away from the complex. Perhaps, she was injured in the plaza from falling debris and was taken by first responders to the nearest place of refuge...under the Vesey street bridge. Perhaps she stayed to help others (she was studying to be a sociologist/psychologist and wanted to become a counselor for underserved kids with less resources to succeed) and took refuge under the bridge when the south tower collapsed, stayed there in the cloud of dust and debris, and ultimately died 30 minutes later when the north tower collapsed and crushed the bridge above her. As for her phone, seeing as it was undamaged, maybe she gave it to someone to make a call to a loved one seeing as she believed she was safe and already made her call. Maybe that person with her phone survived only to later drop the phone in the street. At the end of the day, it's one of the many mysteries/untold stories of 9/11 that will remain untold forever.
@@ryandesmond5477 There are so many conflicting stories in regards of the 91st and 92nd floor it is almost unbelievable.
Can't believe this was recorded THREE DAYS after 9/11
No wonder why he was still traumatized speaking.
Can you imagine the pure terror and disbelief of looking out your office window and seeing a plane coming straight at you knowing there’s nothing you can do about it.
I near have heart attack thinking of it
And it’s like a split second, no time to react
I think in this case you don’t even think you are just in this moment acting of your instincts, you are just existing untill you are no more
Some guy climbed down from a 92nd floor window to a 91st floor window. Unfortunately he didn't realize there was a window on the 91st floor that was open just to the left of him. Had he of known he would have made it out and been likely the only survivor from the 92nd floor. However, he tried kicking the window he was at and lost his grip and fell down all the way down from the 91st floor window. RIP!!
That was the second tower not the first. And was probably the 80th floor, not the 91st. There was a man who climbed down the western face of the north tower and made it down about 10 floors or so. He fell when the south tower collapsed.
How they did it because the outside of it is all metal and even and slippery.
@@daylightdaylight6612He had some kind of rope.
@@daylightdaylight6612there was a giant hole several for several stories
@@BillyBongso terrible and so amazing he made it that far down outside the windows
There is a video of a man telling how he escaped the 911 attack on the w.t.c. he shows his visitors pass but the date on the pass was September 12th not 11th ...does that seem strange to anyone
Brought to you by the "religion of peace."
The church of the Bush family
@@Larry26-f1w Bush is a moron but has nothing to do with these islamic attacks.
Those first responders knew the buildings were going to fall, and yet they still went into the buildings to try and rescue who they could find.
Do you really think the firefighters knew it was going to collapse? I think no one could imagine that
there's absolutely no way they would send in firefighters if collapse was imminent. In fact, they immediately ordered evacuation once the south tower was seen to be leaning. Unfortunately, it was too late.
@@gemapina8080My husband is a commercial architect. He designed skyscrapers. I was on the phone with him when the second plane hit. He told me they would both collapse & which one would go first,based on where the planes hit. The steel can’t take the heat. The firemen knew. They would have understood the urgency. It’s what they do everyday. God bless & keep them.
@@sheilaeilers4363 props
Nobody knew that there were already planned bombs inside by us govt
MacGyver - Richard Dean Anderson
God was with you
God is what drove religious maniacs to fly planes into the towers. Don’t bring religion here.
@@Libertines505 God didn't drive them to do it. Their misinterpretation of God did. And people are free in this country to speak of God if they wish to.
Yup🙏 he always makes blessings
You having an imaginary friend does not mean he had one too, maybe he is a sane person.
However, nor does it mean that he didn't have an imaginary friend.@@jemlesvideo
You can really feel the survivors guilt - the pain
Exactly, survivors guilt. Everyone who experienced that day will be traumatized for the rest of their lives. They may have survived, but their lives are ruined.
yeah thats gotta be a bad feeling
Never heard of survivors guilt. I truly believe the man is feeling grateful every day of his life that he is alive and living with his family.
@@brentchristopher7363You've never heard of survivor's guilt? You need to read more.
I don't think I've ever heard of anything so razor thin in my life. They were on a razors edge between death and survival. Had the plane nosed down a bit more. It would've trapped them on the 91st and we would've never heard from this guy.
Ikr
Or if he nosedived at the end hit floor 60 or something and then over 6,000 would have died in total.
Literally, everyone above 91 perished.
I believe this is actually the first instance we’re I’ve seen a story of someone seeing the plane coming in the north tower, very interesting. Rip to all the victems
There was another man in the other tower that said when he was coming down he could see the fuselage of the plane in the hole it had made. This would be approximately 9 minutes after it hit. The fire had been raging the entire time flames were already billowing out of the building. There is no way he saw anything thru that hole.
Look up George Sleigh, another 91st floor survivor, who watched it coming at him before impact
@@spikenomoonyeah let’s take your word over the guy who was actually there.. lol
@@MadGunny Exactly.
This is still fresh 23 years later.
If only the kids siding with terrorists could understand.
@@siameseblue4824 not calling you out but you dont mean muslims do you?
@@a0a0-jt in recent years there has been a concerted effort by Muslim regimes and by the Russians to sell Americans these dumb stories where we’re expected to believe that US Intelligence & government made themselves look incompetent, almost tipped the US int9 economic crisis and almost crippled US military command & control, for… and /or that there never were planes and nobody really died - reasons for these nefarious frauds never given.
Older people who personally remember the day don’t swallow these very belated stories so easily, but a lot of younger people are unbelievably gormless.
For instance “why do all these cameramen hide their faces?” (Thinks selfies were always the main point of videos.)
They find everythung from poor picture quality to uploading “years later”, strange or weird (i.e. suspect).
Good picture quality is also suspect. People switching off from recording is suspect, and people who happen to be pointing their camera at the right spot at the right time, supect. Professional cameramen in Manhattan - suspect. Amateurs carrying cameras on a weekday morning - suspect. Every possible permutation is touted by weaponising such astonishing ignorance.
@@siameseblue4824 If only you knew what a terrorist actually is.
@@a0a0-jt he didn't say "Muslims", he said terrorists, which they were.
Still, the action was called by a radical Muslim who considered the US to be an enemy. This idea is rooted from his Muslim views. Not every Muslim is a terrorist, of course, but in this case, he was, and Islam is known for the amount of terrorism it's caused.
The look on his face when he mentions the firefighters is so heartbreaking
It’s amazing how all survivors have that image in mind, they are all traumatized by the faces of those heroes going up in the stairwells, they have all our love, I truly admire those brave and good men
If you survive that collapse your lucky idc where you were located it’s almost impossible to survive a building that big dropping on you like where can you run
@@gemapina8080that’s when I knew they were good to see firefighters with kids wife’s say I signed up to put my life on the line go into that building after seeing all the people running away is a different kind of bravery I’ll be honest as good as I am I don’t think I can go in those buildings that day I would say I quit but not one person quit they all were like brothers if it wasn’t for there presence I guarantee you nobody would hear survived them being there helped to have some order nobody there was clam it was pure chaos but seeing the fire fighters made people feel safe it’s crazy how important these guys is to society that’s why a bad crooked cop should be in prison
Wonder if the 'run for daylight' guy is still living.
I takes me about 30 minutes to descend 40 floors at my work and that's in a fire drill with no first responders coming up, no injured people, no smoke, trauma or stress.
So once you tards really act it takes 5 10 mins
And he also had to deal with 90 floors of people jamming into the stairway in front of him. A human traffic jam.
I couldn’t work in that building . 9/11 has paralyzed me with fear of working in skyscrapers
30 minutes to descend 40 floors seems incredibly long and a case where you might want to consider laying off the Big Mac's, healthy adult individuals should be able to descend 40 floors in no more than 10-15 minutes.
@@KP-wt8qr certainly when by yourself. When you’re with several hundred others it takes some time. Cool story bro.
He is apparently the highest survivor from the North Tower. No one survived above the 91st floor
One of the highest survivors from 91st floor.
@@missJolie85 yes!
There were a couple of people that made it out from his floor. There was a female British painter that made it out, too.
@@easternyellowjacket276 what is her name
@@B-lazer3 Vanessa Lawrence. ua-cam.com/video/7cj5vOImTgQ/v-deo.html
This interview was a few days later, after it actually happened. Man is shellshocked....
Hope he is doing well nowadays
Rest in peace to those who died 🕊🤍
So sorry to their loved ones 🕊🤍
Them being brought to tears from other peoples pain shows how good of people they are.
this was 3 days after, half the world was crying, devistated and in shock my friend.
@@chriss3115
The U.S. was consumed with thinking about what happened to our people, tho! That was OUR focus
(*though)
@@R.Oates7902Why are you arguing about this? The other comment was correct. Just days after 9/11 everyone I knew was still crying over such a pointless and horrific loss of life. Maybe you weren’t old enough to be there but these two people crying at this tragedy was not unique or the marker of a “special person” with abnormally high or somehow respectable amounts of empathy. I have appreciation for what the two people in the video are expressing, but not for your comment.
I never thought about meeting dead men on the stairs running up to their duty and death.
This poor man. He is living with guilt. Not his guilt though. No words to describe how horrific for everyone who was somehow connected. So sorry for your losses.
The thought that those men (can't remember how many there were) actually sat down, maybe over a drink of tea and planned the whole thing! The wickedness!
I bet his family thought he was dead knowing he was that high
That's indeed what his wife says later on in the video.
Absolutely incredible story. I can feel the survivor guilt through the screen. I hope the survivors find some kind of peace and healing and solace following this immense tragedy.
He was a lucky man too . Being on 91st floor was hard too . And the fact is that his family is very happy too . Write a book about your friend's there too .worst day of history but will remember those who we were too
He was definitely lucky to get out. The plane hit just above him and then going down 91 floors with who knows how many people who were in front of him entering the stairway from all the floors below.
I was on the 89th Floor in the South Tower, there was so much confusion as to what was going on. I made it down to the 70th Floor when the second plane struck.
Woow please tell more!
Glad you were given so many more years to experience this reality. It is surreal to respond to your post. You were there!
Survivors often say that they made it out after being presented with the one opportunity and made the decision.
Wow, your story should be heard.
Im glad you are safe. All my love my friend. There isnt a day that goes by i dont think about that day. I lived in IL my whole life. I remember being a high school student in class watching everything happening on tv. My heart goes out to everyone effected from this day. I couldnt imagine going to work and not seeing or hearing from my family ever again. God bless you.
What is your name?
Amazing but horrible and I visited the twin towers in 1990 so hits me too. How people can be so horrible to people
Anyone else struggle this time of year?
Does anyone know if this man is still alive today? I’d love to know and hope it’s not rude of me to ask.
I thought the same thing. He looks to be at least 60 so that would make him mid 80’s now…
I wonder the same
91st and 92nd floor were the unfinished empty offices occupied by 20 artists also. See " ART CRASHER- Fifteen years later artists remember their studio in the sky." One Artist Michael Richards died immediately as he had slept there overnight. His sculpture of planes embedded in his body predicted his death.
How did he die immediately if he wasn’t in the impact zone?
Tell me more about please 🙏🏻
From the 90th floor up in WTC TWINS did people work in offices?
ChatGPT
People generally did not work in offices above the 90th floor in the World Trade Center (WTC) Twin Towers. The upper floors of the towers, especially above the 90th floor, were primarily occupied by technical equipment, mechanical floors, telecommunication infrastructure, and other building systems necessary for the operation of the entire complex.
The limited access and logistical challenges, such as longer elevator travel times and evacuation procedures, made these upper floors less suitable for typical office spaces. Therefore, offices for employees and tenants were predominantly located in the lower and middle floors of the Twin Towers, where accessibility and convenience were better suited for regular office activities.
@@pavlarat Yes people worked in offices above the 90th floor. Cantor Fitzgerald had their offices from floors 101-105 and lost 658 employees in the north tower. Marsh & McLennan were in floors 93-100 and lost 295 employees in the North tower. Aon had offices in floors 98-105 in the south tower and lost 175 employees. There were others and that's generally where most people died.
Michael Richard's was either on the 91 or 92 floor but I think it was the 92nd floor. RIP Michael!
Even now seeing that tower collapse makes me burst into tears. I can’t imagine the level of fear those individuals had on that day. The amount of courage people had to have to choose jumping 90 stories over being burned or crushed. If only we could properly remember 9/11 instead of constantly fighting about if it was an inside job.
As Mr. Richard Anderson was still working on the 91st Floor of Tower 1 North Tower and his escape from the tower was an outstanding story.
the fact the plane hit 2 floors above this mans head.
There was a black woman who worked on the 92nd floor who survived. Just because we don't hear every story doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. A woman from the 101st floor also survived. You have to remember that each tower held thousands of people. I recently saw a video of people actually descending into the plaza main floor and then exiting out through the mall. There were so many of them. Who knows which floor they were coming from. Not all of them have publicly shared their story. I bet there are even more videos than we've seen.
I never heard of anyone who survived that high. We know no one survived from above the 91st floor. All exits were cut off. Maybe you are talking about someone from tower 2. There were 18 survivors from tower 2 above the impact zone around the 80th floor. There were 0 survivors above the impact zone of tower 1, 91st floor.
sources?
I wonder who were the window cleaners that were cleaning wtc 7 exactly when the first plane hit i hope they survived because that was my first time seeing it from that angle
Thank you for sharing your story. "Story.". Hmmm, thats NOT the word for it. "Survival". "Trama.". "Pain." "Suffering.". But most of all: your MIRACLE in being here today. Altho your nightmare over, I pray your nights and days are filled with joy and appreciation with eacj breath you take. My god, this was the worst day in American History, The worst day in a trillion lives. Never Forget, i understand that, but i eish we all could have never had to live thru such a thing to remember. God bless you.
A different America. I miss it.
Yes, people who could access the stairs were blessed for sure, but even then, I can't imagine climbing down 90+ floors, especially for older, out-of-shape, or people with slight handicaps. Yet those were the lucky ones on that nightmarish day.
Even someone with an old sport injury who was in great shape would struggle with 90 floors.
Adrenaline is a heck of a motivator.
I’m surprised he was able to get a call out to his wife. I couldn’t get a call to go through for three days.
Mr. Anderson 😳
God bless him and god rest the souls of the people who didnt make it
water bucket
There are millions of story's and perspectives that day, from people watching on t.v.s all over the world, to the people like this man who survived. 9/11 was a world tragedy as it affected millions one way or another. R.I.P. to all those who perished on that terrible day.
It's beyond ironic that this guy is Richard Anderson. And Thomas Anderson from the Matrix, his passport expires on 9/11/01.
Anderson is a very common last name
Buildings should NEVER be allowed to be built that high. Ever.
he's the Mr Anderson Of The Matrix
He is Mcguyver. Aka Richard Dean Anderson
It was horrible .
The miracle surviving stories are relief to everyone.
Knowing something of the many who were taken from the world helps to know what there is to know about people who we grieve loosing for no reason because of murderer terrorists.
Weird miserable men that hated to much.
The intensity of fearing death and having life instead and in short period of time. What a tale to tell.
Managing to walk out after the entire building collapsed. Wow wow wow!
What building collapsed?
Feel sorry for all lives lost.
Kitne manjil ka tha
the fact the plane hit 2 floors above this mans head.
911th like
I'm so glad that you were able to make it home to your family. Prayer's to all those poor soul's and their families that perished. God bless.
Who flew the planes?
Muhammad Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi of Al Queda.
@@taylorsmith9629Yes he threw his passport out of the window just before the crash 4COL.
@@vlaminggarrulus4785 the planes blew up which went debris from them outside the buildings.
@@taylorsmith9629 And what happened to the blackboxes? 2 per plane.
@@vlaminggarrulus4785the black box is not indestructible. They also found the black box from the other 2 Jets
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
1:29
This gives me goosebumps.
Does he still alive?
probaly not
Absolutely as heartbreaking to hear in 2024, as it was to hear in 2001. 💔❤️🩹
Traducete non tutti siamo interpreti e siamo... italiani
Aprenda a hablar el inglés, o busque otro método.
I heard that some survivors already had a strange premonition before the planes hit, they knew something was odd that sunny day but didn't know what exactly but i still find that amazing in a way how some of then thought that 😱💕
I bet many had nightmares or premonitions dreams before it happened... some people probably repeatedly. .
I did, too, and I wasn't in New York at the time... I had an eerie feeling in my gut that something bad was going to happen in this country... I kinda have that same feeling now with regards to Election Day this year.
🙋♀️
rip
Who did get that photo?
Your sentence makes no sense...
I got it
They are asking who else has got that photo. If you are watching this then you too have it
God is rich in mercy. What an incredible story!
yeah i'm sure the 3,000 dead people and their family members would totally agree with you how rich God was in his mercy that day.
#delusional
Amen Praise God!
@@aa10759tghjEvery single one of us will die at some point. You don't know in what ways God might have been with those people in their final moments. Or with their families since then. Death and the evil choices of men doesn't mean there's no God, or that he doesn't bless us or help us in our hour of need.
Go worship your fictional idol somewhere else, preferably away from normal people
@@user-ms4tl2ys4nAlso there could be memorial Bridges or memorial Gardens for anybody who is dead.
The guy who actually saw the plane coming, did he survive too?
Yes. I am pretty sure he is talking about George Sleigh. George lived another 20 years after 9/11
The plane that passed through a skyscraper? Nobody saw that but there is a ton of footage showing a telltale spiral smoke trail with a cone shaped object leading the way after the invisible plane hit
@@Larry26-f1w My brother saw the plane hit the 2nd tower.
Nobody claims that the planes went through the skyscrapers. Both of them hit the skyscrapers. But they certainly didn't come out the other side.
@@jmoon364 props
@@Larry26-f1w No troll, there is a ton of footage showing an actual plane hiting both towers. Troll on now.
The upper floors of the towers, especially above the 90th floor, were primarily occupied by technical equipment, mechanical floors, telecommunication infrastructure, and other building systems necessary for the operation of the entire complex.
Wrong. In the North Tower, Windows on the World was up there with the full breakfast staff as well as over a thousand people working on the other floors.
From the 90th floor up in WTC TWINS did people work in offices?
ChatGPT
People generally did not work in offices above the 90th floor in the World Trade Center (WTC) Twin Towers. The upper floors of the towers, especially above the 90th floor, were primarily occupied by technical equipment, mechanical floors, telecommunication infrastructure, and other building systems necessary for the operation of the entire complex.
The limited access and logistical challenges, such as longer elevator travel times and evacuation procedures, made these upper floors less suitable for typical office spaces. Therefore, offices for employees and tenants were predominantly located in the lower and middle floors of the Twin Towers, where accessibility and convenience were better suited for regular office activities.
91st of tower one? Now after much research. None of those stairs are connected, the stair case across is disconnected to the point that you would actually have to KNOW in order to use them. The stairs did not lead into areas where any elevator or escalators and they were on opposite ends they also lead to dead ends more often than the aided in a successful escape. .....HE WASN'T THERE!
There are other confirmed survivors from the 91st floor. Nobody above the 91st floor survived.
@blake7871 that's not my point. The stairs were not connected in either building, and most stair cases lead to locked doors that went nowhere, so at some point they would have had to use the crowded elevators. Even when ppl were told to go back so those same ppl had to get back on? U catch my drift. The people who "survived" WERE NEVER IN THERE they may have been around but they weren't in the building.
@@admeliora4822 That's utter nonsense. We have dozens of people who escaped from the 90-91st floors. None of the doors in the stairwells were locked. The only locked door was the door to the roof. Some doors in the stairwells got jammed on the plane's impact, but what you're saying isn't true.
The jet hit 93rd to 99th floor
@@admeliora4822 why would the stairs «not be connected» and «go nowhere»? That makes no sense and would defeat the entire purpose of stairs. This isn’t the Winchester Mystery House we’re talking about.
Thermite thermite was used .
no. you're stupid, LOL
Idiot.
Not ANY footage from ANY OF THE HUNDREDS of pentagon security camera’s, Donad Rumsfeld said flight 93 was shot down, WTC #7 collapse due to a “fire” 7 hours later????
No! Enough of the conspiracy theories
@@PatrickRKaywhen George Bush said Afghanistan had weapons of mass destruction only to say they didn't have any a few years later, you didn't tell him to can it with the conspiracies!
His description sounds so so so vague wth
SO NOBODY WORKING AT THESE FLOORS!!!! Wake up!
Here is something wrong because at floor 91 wasnt offices!
Do you think how many people killed because of your country ?
Wish it were more. Maybe then they would STOP coming here.
stop stealing from their countries and then ask them not to come @@texasred2702
🙄
Yeah, sure, like US foreign policy is entirely his and other 9/11 victims fault lol
@@texasred2702 yet you are somehow here. Maybe you should go? To Russia? Seems like the type of place MAGAts want to turn the US into.
I dont know What he know about Whole thing but i know sure that at 91th floor people didnt work!
Politics destroyed more than 3000 families
If they had left in the least time possible, surely they would be well clear by the time the South Tower fell. So in the timeline it's not told here in this short video. About 75 mins to descend 91 floors . . . hmmm I suppose so.
In Chicago, either the Willis Tower or John Hancock does the 100 story run as a fund raiser. It takes the quickest at least 75 minutes with no stoppages ( people are timed and spaced when starting the race) or backups from others.
It took many 90 minutes or more to get out of the North Tower due to people stopping, debris and smoke, first responders on their way up and general confusion. Many were reaching the lobby as the South Tower fell.
I've been listening to the survivor stories.
I had to clear The Gas Company Tower in LA for a fire drill, 50 floors with 4 floors added, because we had to venture out through the garage. Even in a steady flow, we hit a backup jam at the 20th floor. It took over 30 minutes, mainly because of the jam. This was in 2009, at the time, all I could think was if this was a real event, we would be in a bad spot.