78th Floor facts
While investigating facts about 78th Floor, I found out little known, but curios details like:
About Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.
Salty and Roselle, two separate guide dogs who were in the World Trade Centre during 9/11. They were on the 71st and 78th floor of Tower 1 respectively. They each led their owners safely out of the burning tower amidst the chaos, and both owners and dogs survived.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 7 of the best facts about 78th Floor I managed to collect.
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The President of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network lied about being on the 78th floor of the south WTC during the attack. She was actually in Spain during 9/11.
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Only one firefighter actually got up to the fire in WTC on 9/11 by fixing an elevator himself to 40th floor and then running all the way up to 78th floor.
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About Tania Head, a fake 9/11 attack survivor. She was supposedly on the 78th floor and lost her husband. This was all revealed a fraud when a reporter investigated. It turns out she wasn’t even in the US on September 11.
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Orio Palmer, the FDNY Fire Chief at the time of 9/11 who fixed an elevator and a radio receiver and climbed up to the 78th floor (impact zone) of the South Tower before its impending collapse.
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A B-25 bomber hit the Empire State Building in 1945, between the 78th-80th floors, killing 14. This event set two world records: the largest major fire extinguished at such a height, and longest survived elevator fall, when Betty Lou Oliver's elevator fell 75 stories. It reopened the next day.
