story929.xml
Title
story929.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-07-24
911DA Story: Story
My Story is as Follows
I was working that morning in WTC # 1 on the 23rd floor when the 1st plane hit, like everyone on our floor I was taken by what was first the Crash of the plane & then the Explosion it sent Through the Building. At that time I did not know it was a plane that caused the explosion so I had no fear because I felt the explosion was above and new we had to get out. My first reaction was to make sure no one panicked being one of the fire wardens of the floor I made sure everyone got off the floor in an orderly fashion. There were some people who sat at their desk waiting for word on what to do but I assured them that the best thing to do was to get out some women was on the floor praying as I picked her up I told her the best thing to do would be to pray in the Stairs going down, I also had to stop the Stock delivery Guy from trying to get his stock wagon out through the doors. That was mainly it I checked Bathrooms (both) to make sure I was the last one on that floor. Then I made my descend down to the lobby which when I came Across a man on the 20th floor who was having a asthmatic attack he didn?t want to move now the Fireman asked 2 men can volunteer to carry this man down so I was one of those Men we carried him to the Lobby were he then said he can walk on his own then the other man left so he used my shoulder to lean on as we went through the lobby to get outside it was then when he dropped his pump that a cop came over to help that I asked what happened he then told me that someone flew a plane into build 1 and just 10 minutes ago someone just did it to wtc 2 also, So as I was in the staircase another plane hit tower 2 . Now as I was leaving the trade center through borders bookstore a daily news photographer took a picture of me with the man I carried down.
And I didn?t know this picture was available in a gallery at 420 east 9th street with other pictures of that day until a friend of mine noticed it in a store by the trade center in March of 2002. Now Because of this picture I was able to find out who the man was because I got him to a ambulance on Broadway and they took care of him and I just went home by the way of the Brooklyn Bridge. The man worked for the same company, I didn?t know him I just came down and saw someone and helped him. His name is William Garrido I called him in April and he was pleased to here from me and very grateful of me for helping him that day. Getting back to that day I also want to say that as I was going over the bridge the Tower 2 collapsed and by the time I arrived to the Brooklyn side of the Bridge the other building was history too. My first thing was to go to my wife?s job so she new I was Ok I had no way of getting in touch with her other wise. She was sooo happy to see me and we both went home to get our kids who were in school at the time and to asure or families that I was OK.
I have a jpg of the picture taken by the daily news photographer.
[photo available in the September 11 Digital Archive]
I was working that morning in WTC # 1 on the 23rd floor when the 1st plane hit, like everyone on our floor I was taken by what was first the Crash of the plane & then the Explosion it sent Through the Building. At that time I did not know it was a plane that caused the explosion so I had no fear because I felt the explosion was above and new we had to get out. My first reaction was to make sure no one panicked being one of the fire wardens of the floor I made sure everyone got off the floor in an orderly fashion. There were some people who sat at their desk waiting for word on what to do but I assured them that the best thing to do was to get out some women was on the floor praying as I picked her up I told her the best thing to do would be to pray in the Stairs going down, I also had to stop the Stock delivery Guy from trying to get his stock wagon out through the doors. That was mainly it I checked Bathrooms (both) to make sure I was the last one on that floor. Then I made my descend down to the lobby which when I came Across a man on the 20th floor who was having a asthmatic attack he didn?t want to move now the Fireman asked 2 men can volunteer to carry this man down so I was one of those Men we carried him to the Lobby were he then said he can walk on his own then the other man left so he used my shoulder to lean on as we went through the lobby to get outside it was then when he dropped his pump that a cop came over to help that I asked what happened he then told me that someone flew a plane into build 1 and just 10 minutes ago someone just did it to wtc 2 also, So as I was in the staircase another plane hit tower 2 . Now as I was leaving the trade center through borders bookstore a daily news photographer took a picture of me with the man I carried down.
And I didn?t know this picture was available in a gallery at 420 east 9th street with other pictures of that day until a friend of mine noticed it in a store by the trade center in March of 2002. Now Because of this picture I was able to find out who the man was because I got him to a ambulance on Broadway and they took care of him and I just went home by the way of the Brooklyn Bridge. The man worked for the same company, I didn?t know him I just came down and saw someone and helped him. His name is William Garrido I called him in April and he was pleased to here from me and very grateful of me for helping him that day. Getting back to that day I also want to say that as I was going over the bridge the Tower 2 collapsed and by the time I arrived to the Brooklyn side of the Bridge the other building was history too. My first thing was to go to my wife?s job so she new I was Ok I had no way of getting in touch with her other wise. She was sooo happy to see me and we both went home to get our kids who were in school at the time and to asure or families that I was OK.
I have a jpg of the picture taken by the daily news photographer.
[photo available in the September 11 Digital Archive]
Collection
Citation
“story929.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 4, 2026, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/13633.