WHICH TOWER FELL FIRST WINDOWS
I thought of all my friends and colleagues at the restaurant, and I started to do a mental list: Who's up there now? Who's working? We had 72 of our Windows family working that morning. I looked up at the South Tower and saw the moment of impact. I made a couple of calls to let people know I was safe. Michael Lomonaco, chef and director of culinary operations at Windows on the World, a restaurant on the North Tower's 106th and 107th floors: I'd been in the shopping center on the lower level when the North Tower was hit. I told my colleague, “This is no accident. Investigator Green: I saw the second plane come around and go into the building. Kelly Guenther/The New York Times/Redux Pictures It was my ex-partner's mother saying, “Turn on your television.” When I saw the North Tower burning, I immediately thought it was terrorism, because I knew, based on my experience, that that amount of fire could not have been set by a small plane or helicopter. I was at home in Brooklyn, having my second cup of coffee, when I got a phone call from Kentucky. We thought it was some pilot who didn't know what the heck he was doing.īrenda Berkman, a lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department: I was off duty. Vincent Green, a top anti-corruption official in the city's Department of Investigation, who was in an office that faced the twin towers: We didn't think it was an attack at that point. One of them says, “A plane hit the building.” I thought, Sure, a little Piper. She says, “A big one.” I say, “What do you mean, ‘a big one'?” She says, “It looks really bad, Mrs. I think we need to get out of here."Īda Rosario Dolch, principal of the Leadership and Public Service High School, three blocks south of the towers: I was in the school's lobby, greeting students. We just all stood there, looking at each other, and I remember I said to my girlfriend, “Something bad happened. I thought everything was going to fall down. It was such a noise and such an impact that you actually felt it. Margaret Lazaros, a systems analyst for Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, who worked on the 27th floor of the building: It was unbelievable.
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