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Discovered by former U.S. Marines Jason Thomas and Dave Karnes, McLoughlin and Jimeno were pulled out alive after spending nearly 24 hours beneath 30 feet (9 m) of rubble. [24] [25] Their rescue was later portrayed in the 2006 film World Trade Center. In total, twenty survivors were pulled out of the rubble.
This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.
When all the uniformed officers walked out of The Pit, the two were last to leave. Only 20 people were pulled out of the rubble alive; Jimeno and McLoughlin were numbers 18 and 19. On June 11, 2002, McLoughlin (with a walker) and Jimeno (with a limp) walked across a stage at Madison Square Garden to receive the Port Authority's Medal of Honor. [3]
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, only 20 survivors were pulled alive from the rubble, [6] although there were several human remains and belongings that were removed from the site. The day after the attack, then-mayor Rudy Giuliani told reporters that they were receiving mobile phone calls from people trapped in the debris. [ 5 ]
Although a few people would subsequently be found alive in the rubble following the collapse of the towers, none of these individuals were from the trapped floors. [113] Twenty-four people were still officially listed as missing in 2006 [114] and as of September 2021, the remains of 1,106 victims of the attacks have yet to be identified. [115]
People walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed September 11, 2001, after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in a suspected terrorist attack.
Genelle Guzman-McMillan is a Trinidadian-American writer known for being the last person rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks in 2001, having spent 27 hours trapped in the rubble. [1] Prior to the attack, she worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. [2]
At the National September 11 Memorial, Pezzulo's name is located on Panel S-29 of the South Pool, along with those of other first responders.. Dominick A. Pezzulo (August 15, 1965 – September 11, 2001) was an Italian American Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) officer who died in the September 11 attacks in lower Manhattan, New York City in 2001.