Fears Mount as World Trade Center Tenants Remain Missing

AP | 9/12/01 | Matt Moore

[A+Bert (Outta here)]

I hope I am wrong, but I have a feeling many workers from the first tower probably went to the other one. I hope not, but if they did that building was hit about midway.

[Woodman]

You can't go from one tower to the other without going to ground level first. I know many people who worked at Cantor (101-106 1WTC)from my FX years and I have come to the realization that none of them made it out. My sympathies and prayers go out to their families and friends.

[Nonstatist]

No, I dont think so. They tried to exit. However, people in Bldg 2 were told to sit tight after the first bldg was hit. After the hit on about the 60th floor, people below tried walking down, but because of the traffic, it would take 45 min. to get out.It collapsed in 18 minutes. So, pretty much everybody in Bldg 2 above the 15 th floor or so, died.

[SouthCarolinaKit]

Am I the only one to note that NONE of the firefighters/policement shown during this second day of Infamy was black? How could that possibly be unless their assignments are specialized (safe?)? I know this is not politically correct to mention, but what does it mean?

[Z.Hobbs]

I work with people with Guy Carpenter & Co. They occupied floors 52 thru 54 in tower 2. They told me that they got the order to evacuate immediately after tower 1 was hit. They believe that virtually everyone in their office got out ok.

[Woodman]

What a stupid F'n comment. First of all about 300 Police and Firemen were in the buildings when they collapsed. I know people at the Hospital in Jersey City where the injured and dead have been evacuated. There are direct reports of at least one full battalion of police missing and many wounded. Second of all none of the rescue workers I have seen working on the scene have been race distinguishable I.e. they were so covered with dust they all looked like they were in whiteface. Please go crawl back under your rock.

A good 30-40% of NY's uniformed employees are "ethnic."

[Z.Hobbs]

I work with people with Guy Carpenter & Co. They occupied floors 52 thru 54 in tower 2. They told me that they got the order to evacuate immediately after tower 1 was hit. They believe that virtually everyone in their office got out ok.

[Z.Hobbs]

I work with people with Guy Carpenter & Co. They occupied floors 52 thru 54 in tower 2. They told me that they got the order to evacuate immediately after tower 1 was hit. They believe that virtually everyone in their office got out ok.

[McGavin999]

What a disgusting thing to say. What it means is that your mind is so far beneath contempt that it's appalling.

[Alissa]

That is really good news! I recently took a course on Life Safety building codes. The instructor mentioned that they had installed emergency lighting in the stairwells of the WTC atfter the '93 bombs. In 93 it took some people 7 hours to walk down from the top floors, because they were coming down in the pitch dark. Those lights may have saved many lives!

[Woodman]

Are you related to Tom Hobbs of Cantor?

[BlessedBeGod]

NO!

I work for Morgan Stanley, and there were people on the 67th, 72nd, and 78th floors that got out of 2 World Trade (south tower)!

[Nonstatist]

I know somebody with friends at Morgan Stanley , and they were told to sit still, So I guess it depended..

[Nonstatist]

Woops! Then I stand corrected, I heard wrong, ..sorry. Thank goodness.

[Woodman]

What I heard was that 2 WTC was told to evacuate, and then when they were in the stairwells they were told to return to their offices. I have been through this in a building before, and my rule of thumb is evacuate before they tell you to, and ignore orders to return. I hope not too many were Sheeple and followed what would have been my advice.

[Z.Hobbs]

Only if Mark Twain was related to Joe Twain. Hobbs is strictly an alias.

[Ada Coddington]

I hope I am wrong, but I have a feeling many workers from the first tower probably went to the other one. I hope not, but if they did that building was hit about midway.

There was time between the first strike to the second to evacuate the entire South tower and the lower floors of the North. Whether they did or not is another question. My own office building which is right across the street, the World Financial Center, was evacuated immediately after they knew that the plane hit the North Tower.

[tet68]

This is something to keep in mind also,the casualties from this attack are International in scope.

Not just Americans died here.

The civilized nations of the world must wreak a terrible vengence on the perpetrators.

[12B]

Jeezus what a friggin idiot you are. Many of the firemen working today have been shipped in from outside NYC to replace those who were either killed or are too exhausted to continue. They're coming from white(r) communities.

Once again, you're a friggin idiot!