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I attended the monthly Stellwagen Bank Charter Boat Association meeting last night (along with a few other guys from this site) and the guest speaker was Bob Jenkins (owner of Local Hooker Rods). Before Bob spoke about his company and his rods, he informed the group that 11 years ago yesterday morning, he was in Tower 1 on the 42nd floor when the first plane hit the tower. He was in the video conferencing business on a sales call that day and happened to be meeting with a company in the WTC. As he talked about the horror, panic, composure, disbelief, decision making, heroism etc, etc that he witnessed that day, the room was obviously silent and in awe. One part of his recount of that day was that it took 30 minutes for him to go down just 9 flights of stairs as there were so many people trying to go down a stairwell full of smoke, burst water pipes and dripping jet fuel. When he reached the 31st floor, a NYFD Captain and Lieutenant were storming up the stairwell to try and reach the impact floors. He said they were racing up the stairs as everyone was racing down. Both of those men died that day trying to save lives.
I will never forget that day 11 years ago, nor will I forget last night and Bob’s recount of his experiences.
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