Their concern was to get everybody out. That was the key. To get as much people out as possible.
00:23. Most of the people in Tower 1 came out on the mezzanine above the lobby then they'd get out through another building.
Okay, I want to use the lobby as a triage. --Fire Chief
The Chiefs didn't want anyone going through the lobby doors. First, it was because debris was falling outside. Then [**crash**] it was people falling. You don't see it, but you know what it is, and you know that every time you hear it that crashing sound it's a life which is extinguished it's not something you can get used to. And the sound was so loud . . . .
1:12. I just remember looking up thinking how bad is it up there that their better option is to jump?
THE JUMPERS
If your hand is on a stove burner, it's a red hot stove burner, you don't stop and think about it. That hand is off of there. It's reflex. If there's some sort of energy field within the building that is so painful, that you just have to get away from it, then suddenly they're out the window and like, "How did I get here?"
1:40. So NIST counted 104 jumpers from all of the video and photo evidence that they looked at, but they also stated that the number must have been much higher because not all of them were captured on camera.
"The 911 victims America wants to forget: the 200 jumpers who flung themselves from the Twin Towers who have been 'airbrushed from history,'" Tom Leonard, Daily Mail, September 11, 2011.
As part of its research into where the fire was at its most intense, NIST analyzed camera footage and still photographs and counted 104 jumpers often recording the floor and exact window from which they left.
And without speculating you can see something is causing them to jump out the window is not a normal situation.
Why are they jumping? --Unnamed witness.
The witness accounts and some of the evidence seem to show that these people were being irradiated with some kind of energy and likely candidates is some form of micro wave energy whereby the flesh in these people to such an extent that they were jumping out.
2:27. Ever heard of active denial system? I'm not saying that that's what this is. Just as a parallel. It's a microwave that they [use] for crowd control and it makes you think that you're burning up so that you just have to get out of there. You just leave no matter what. You don't think about it. So maybe some people were jumping, I don't know, from that. I don't know if that's what it was, but it's consistent with something like that going on inside of the building but not outside of the building. And we do know that the building was turning to dust inside for the hour before it's demise. --Judy Wood.
3:01. THE FOLLOWING ARE CAPTIONS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEOS OF PEOPLE JUMPING FROM THE TOWER, played to Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings."
Is the attack on the World Trade Center was one of the most observed catastrophes in history.
Those who fell or jumped from the towers were briefly is most public victims they emerged one or two at a time from a blanket of smoke and fire that rendered mass death virtually invisible.
Those who jumped or fell from the towers provided the starkest, most harrowing evidence of the desperate conditions inside.
Researchers say more than 200 people most likely fell or jumped to their death others say the number is half that or fewer.
Police helicopter pilots have described feeling helpless as they hovered along the buildings.
As they watched the people who piled four and five deep into the windows 1300 ft in the air.
Some held hands as they jumped others went alone.
"Please don't jump. We're coming up for you," a Fire battalion chief said over a PA system, unaware that it was damaged.
For those who jumped, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just less than 150 miles an hour.
Not fast enough to cause unconsciousness while falling but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact.
On the West Side falling bodies crashed onto the awning covering the circular VIP driveway.
The thudding of bodies at this entrance can be heard on a video taken near there by French cameraman Jules Naudet.
6:29.
I just remember looking up thinking how bad is it up there that their better option is to jump?
Commentators later remark that those who had fallen made one brave final decision to take control of how they would perish.
A falling body killed a firefighter.
NY Fire Commissioner, Thomas von Essen was nearly killed when a body landed 15 feet away.
People plummeted into the Plaza blood covered the glass walls and revolving doors that led to the plaza.
People evacuating the North Tower walked by this horrible sight.
"The windows were red and bits of bodies were outside we were stunned and amazed," says Richard Mahler who escaped.
Witness accounts suggest that some people were blown out. Others fell in the crush at the windows as they struggled for air..
Still others simply recoiled reflexively from the intense heat.
"Somebody yelled something was falling we didn't know if it was desks coming out."
"It turned out it was people coming out and they started coming out one after the other . . . we saw the jumpers coming."
"They were choosing to die."
The original "Waving Woman" photograph of 9/11.
The so-called "cell phone jumper." Some contend the man was talking on [his] cell phone as he falls to his death. His shirt is off presumably because of the heat.
Photograph of Cantor Fitzgerald employees trying to survive by hanging out of their office windows. [For what it's worth, Howard Lutnick was the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald on 9/11/2001. He is currently serving as Commerce Secretary in the Trump Administration.]
Two victims plunging to their death while appearing to be holding hands.
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them. --Felix Adler
References
Kevin Flynn and Jim Dwyer, Falling Bodies, a 911 Image Etched in Pain, New York Times, 9/10/2004.
Dennis Cauchon and Martha Moore, Desperation Forced a Horrific Decision, USA Today.
"We saw the jumpers . . . choosing to die," The Guardian, 08/13/2005.
