September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001 Airline Flights were known to be hijacked by terrorist and headed for the most popular landmarks in U.S history. The planes were being monitored by the airport in Boston and other places and they see that the planes had been hijacked because it was a suspicious way the communication on the planes acted. So on September 11, 2001 approximately at 8:46 a.m. the northern Twin Tower was hit by the hijacked plane known as the American Airlines Flight number 11. As time passed by many New Yorkers were stun by what had happened in a split second, they were unaware that was going to happen and as violence went on around 9:03 a.m. The southern Twin Tower was hit by the United Airlines Flight number 175 and the big explosion rumbled the grounds of New York. The Twin Towers where now on fire and was collapsing by the minute, many people where inside the Twin Towers known to be the World Trade Center. As the 9/11 attack continued many firefighters, police, medics and other emergency needs, the attack was astonishing and dangerous. People and workers in the Twin Towers were known to be jumping out of Twin Towers to spare their own lives, this was incredible years of hard work destroyed and as the attack continued there was reported that there was other attacks in parts of the U.S. American Airline Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and United Airline Flight 93 crashed in an open field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
The South Tower collapsed 56 minutes after being hit, and the North Tower 102 minutes after being hit. Once the buildings began to fall, each took less than 30 seconds to fully collapse.
- Total number killed in attacks in New York: 2,753
- Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
- Number of NYPD officers: 23
- Number of Port Authority police officers: 37
- Number of WTC companies in the towers that lost people: 128
- Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402
- Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614
- Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658
- Number of U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom:2,108
- Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115
- Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1
- Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39
- Bodies found "intact": 291
- Remains found: 21,744
- Number of families who got no remains: 1,717
- Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center:36,000
- Total units of donated blood actually used: 258
- Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks:1,609
- Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051
- Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20
- FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274
- FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661
- Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300