"He was 22 years old, a recent graduate of Occidental College and had been sent to Morgan Stanley in New York to begin training at the Twin Towers on Sept. 10, 2001. The next morning, a training meeting ended up being 15 minutes late because a speaker went too long, so during a break, he decided not to go to the observation deck on the 107th floor."
"When he went outside, he said, "I saw both on fire." He went to find a pay phone so he could call his loved ones and tell them he was OK. Then the towers started to collapse. "I heard a rumble," he said. "It was 57 minutes since the plane hit. I saw the dust cloud. I turned and ran.""
Kevin Danni, a St. Francis High graduate and father of Golden Knights linebacker Luke Danni, was training at Morgan Stanley in the World Trade Center on Sept. 10–11, 2001. A delayed training meeting kept him from visiting the 107th-floor observation deck the morning of the attacks. He noticed papers and a fire after the North Tower was hit. Evacuation from the South Tower was initially not recommended, but security head Rick Rescorla overrode orders and ordered everyone to leave. Danni descended past firefighters, heard an explosion at the 55th floor when a plane struck the South Tower, exited after 45 minutes, and fled as the towers collapsed.
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