After the dust cleared, he found the hysterical woman and took her to a restaurant being used by rescue workers as a triage center.
Clyde Ebanks, vice president of an insurance company was at a meeting on the 103rd floor of the 110-story South Tower of the World Trade Center when his boss said, "Look at that." He turned and through a window saw a plane go by and hit the other building.
He and his co-workers raced down the stairs. When they reached the 70th floor, they felt the building shake as the second plane hit. Later, in tears, his hair covered with gray ash, he added: "I worry about some of my co-workers."
New York Governor George Pataki mobilized the National Guard militia to help the city's emergency services, which were already stretched to the limit in responding to the apparent terrorist attack.
"Hundreds of people are burned from head to toe," said Dr. Steven Stern at St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village.
At St. Vincents, hospital staff appealed for blood donors in the street. The line to give blood was over 100 people long.
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