POST FOTOG TELLS OF HIS NEAR-DEATH

New York Post ^ | 9/12/01 | DON HALASY

[kattracks]

When the world caved in on me yesterday morning, I was standing 200 feet from 1 World Trade Center, looking at the top of the other Twin Tower resting on the ground.

It was a freakish sight, and as I shot it, another photographer approached me and said he was out of film. I had two rolls left. I handed him one.

[Cowgirl]

At our prayer meeting last night one of the ladies reported a similar story. Her great niece was twenty feet from tower number 1 and was planning on attending a meeting on the l00th floor. Just then the plane hit. She started running south, and ran and ran. She came to a cement wall which she says she doesn't know how she climbed over. On the other side was the coast guard. They didn't know what was happening. She was in shock and didn't know what to do. There was a ferry leaving right from where she was at that was going to Staten Island. She jumped on it. Still emotionally upset, a couple came over and talked to her. She had a cell phone and tried to call the other people that had been with her but couldn't get through. The couple stayed with her and they tried to find her a motel room when they got to Staten. Nothing was available so they offered their home. Her parents are now on their way to New York to pick her up and the other gentlemen she was finally able to reach by phone.