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July 8, 2001. World Trade Center Plaza, with its centerpiece sculpture and fountain. July 8, 2001. World Trade Center, Tower-2. View from 107th floor, looking east. Woolworth Building in view on left. July 31, 2001. World Trade Center twin towers: One acre of office space per floor, per buiding. Rising a quarter mile into the sky.
September 11, 2001. World Trade Center Tower-1 is ablaze. Three seconds before Tower-2 gets hit. September 11, 2001. World Trade Center Tower-1 is ablaze. Tower-2 gets hit. The view of the oncoming 767 Airplane was blocked by the dark-glass 50-story Millenium Hilton Hotel. The pulverized parts of the fast-moving plane and its passengers burst forth. September 11, 2001. One second after Tower-2 gets hit. Twenty-thousand gallons of jet fuel ignites.
September 11, 2001. Four seconds after Tower-2 gets hit. Flames completely engulf the upper 40 floors of the Towers. At this point I cowered from the fireball’s intense radiant heat. Visible are the descending fragmentts of aluminum fuselages and other debris cast forth by the airplane’s impact. September 11, 2001. One hour after both towers had collapsed, a thick layer of dust had settled on all adjacent blocks. Near my residence, accumulations ranged from 1/2-inch in the middle of the streets, to 4-inches up against buildings and anything else that impeded the rolling dust cloud. September 11, 2001. One hour after both towers collapsed, above the dense smoke, blue sky appeared where the towers had once stood.
September 11, 2001. One hour after both towers collapsed, military vehicles had already arrived. Laying in the street are just a few hundred of the billions of sheets of office paper that had been cast forth like confetti during the collapse. September 17, 2001. A skeletal fragment of World Trade Center Tower-2 remains standing, as the smoke from ground fires continue to rage. September 17, 2001. Looking up Fulton Street, in view is the burned out World Trade Center Building No. 5. This structure, all of a half-dozen stories, burned, but did not collapse The World Financial Center sits in the background, with various windows broken from falling debris.
December 18, 2001. Demolition at Ground Zero. Cleanup proceeded 24 hours per day. The fires burned through the end of January 2002. December 18, 2001. Saint Paul’s Church, adjacent to Ground Zero, served as an impromptu shrine to the 3,000 dead, as did the sidewalks in front of every fire station and police station in the city.