Do you remember where you were 19 years ago today?
Richard Picciotto will always remember that as the day he thought he would die. Indeed, he almost did.
PIcciotto was a New York City Fire Department battalion chief that day, and he was inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center when the South Tower collapsed. Half an hour later, he was still inside the North Tower when it, too, collapsed.

Do you remember where you were 19 years ago today? Richard Picciotto will always remember that as the day he thought he would die. Indeed, he almost did. PIcciotto was a New York City Fire Department battalion chief that day, and he was inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center when the South Tower collapsed. Half an hour later, he was still inside the North Tower when it, too, collapsed.

Richard Picciotto

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