9/11 Survivor Story: Don Bacso
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- The Tri-Town Safety Village Veteran's Museum presents speakers every month that share experiences related to the armed services. For More info on the Tri-Town Safety Village: www.safetyvillage.us/
This presentation features Don Bacso Speaking about his experience as a survivor of 9/11/2001.
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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Recollections of 1993
1:49 - Travel to New York.
3:54 - In Awe of the Towers.
4:34 - Working on computers at WTC.
7:08 - Tuesday Morning.
8:51 - Flight 11 Strikes Tower 1. (North Tower)
10:53 - Time to Leave
12:24 - Finding the closest Stairwell.
13:15 - Flight 175 Strikes Tower 2. (South Tower) Starting to see people with severe injuries.
14:56 - 44th floor Smoke starting to rise. Security guides them to different Staircase.
16:00 - 21st floor. Starting to see firemen coming up the stairs.
16:57 - Reaching the Plaza. Finding out about Jumpers.
18:02 - Seeing the towers from the outside for the first time.
18:44 - Walking back to the Hotel. Hearing news reports on car radios. Anger Sets in.
19:31 - Reunited with Coworkers on the street.
20:21 - Arriving at the Hotel. Trying to find a working Phone.
21:01 - The Towers Fall the ground shakes and the sky darkens. Everything coated in dust.
22:58 - Finding out about the Pentagon.
23:46 - Finally calling home.
25:13 - Finding a way home.
28:35 - Arriving in Indiana at 4:00am on September 13th.
29:16 - Reflecting on the firefighters, Police, the Security Guard from the 44th floor, and the residents of New York.
30:18 - Support from local community and emotional aftermath.
31:45 - Outro and Credits.
I can never get enough of these personal accounts of that day. This guy is a great storyteller.
Same here.
Same ! ❤
I was just there last week and I broke down walking through ground zero.
I worked in Chicago at the Mercantile Exchange that day and I will never forget the look on the faces of all the brokers we worked with who lost their colleagues on the first plane strike.
I remember 9/11 like it was just last week. I didn’t start listening to survivor stories until about a year ago. I lost count of how many stories I listened to and commented on, it’s at least 50. But now I can’t stop. I feel it’s very important we listen. They’re all compelling, regardless of who the story teller is. It’s good to hear from people who were in the towers, near the towers, Pentagon, Pennsylvania, or relatives waiting to hear from loved ones. All combined paint a picture we’ll never forget, one that unites us all.
@@californiahiker9616 I was on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on the day of the attack. I had an order working for a trader who got hit by the first plane. The boker who gave me the order was in tears as she realized her office was destroyed by the attack.
The World Trade Center was never designed for a mass evacuation. When the North Tower was bombed in 1993, power was interrupted and occupants complained of having to descend slowly in pitch black stairwells. It took ten hours to get everyone out of the building that day. After the bombing, the Port Authority spent $250 million on safety and security improvements, including photoluminescent paint in the stairwells, battery-powered stairwell lights, glow-in-the-dark floor signage, and regular fire drills. On 9/11, people in the towers didn't have ten hours to get out. The South Tower collapsed only 56 minutes after being hit. It is estimated that 13,000--15,000 people successfully evacuated the towers on 9/11, and the evacuation was greatly aided by the improvements made after 1993. Hundreds or thousands more would likely have died if not for those efforts.
And on the special type of ventilation, that prevents smoke spreading, if I’m not mistaken
What an awesome man, so glad you were able to make it out and get back to your family. ❤
Love these stories no matter how long or simple their exit was just any stories about being in those buildings that day ill stop and listen to them
It is good to hear that his company also tried to get him back home. Maybe it is a small thing but it is still care.
Hearing him know he had to get out and telling them “this can all wait another day.” just makes my stomach hurt but also makes me feel only a fraction of that flight feeling he must have felt. So glad he made it
I always get sad when u can hear in their voices trying to keep it together
in dec 2001 i met a lady from Jersey she had a relative in the towers on 911.He had been out at a coworker's retirement party the night before . He was very hungover and went down to the lobby to get some pepto when the first plane hit his floor
he saw elevator explode and was able to get out. Im sure his full story would be a good listen
He is most fortunate to have made it out to see his family again, while so many did not. I had 2 friends in Tower 1 Cantor Fitzgerald, both with newborn sons, who never made it home. Just one of them was able to call home, he knew he was going to die, and it is just heartbreaking to think about. Made me tear up when this guy said he was crying over his son’s crib thinking of my friends
That was such a good account of your experience. Well done sir .
Wow he survives by making himself a cup of coffee
*Yeah I agree. I also love the people who ignored the PA system saying "Stay at your Desk" I know hindsight is a great thing,but if I saw paper, debris and people falling out of the other tower, I would have high tailed it out of there. I wouldn't have cared if I lost my Job. I would be getting out as fast as possible. I value my life over any job and money.💯%*
"This can all wait another day" I feel is important to hear now even as it was then. People are running a round with heads cut off.
Don't think I've ever heard accounts of what the impact felt like when inside the building. It must have been so confusing. 40 floors below you've no clue what it was, and if things settled after that, you'd probably just carry on none the wiser. Damn.
*Not if you had half a brain you wouldn't. There is a video at 8x times speed showing how much the building rocked back and forth until it righted itself. Much more than this man described. Maybe it didn't feel as bad for him as he was a lot lower. If you could just carry on after feeling that, something is definitely wrong with you. To feel such a large structure move back and forth like that, you know something is terribly wrong and something major has happened. I would have evacuated immediately and dealt with whatever I was doing at a later time. It's better to be safe than sorry. No amount of money or worrying about losing my job is worth more than my life. Have a great day and enjoy life. It's short, and you never know when your time is up. Take care,stay safe. Always love and be kind to everyone, even if you don't know them. Enjoy every minute of life.💯%.👍👍*
What a fascinating story, every day I search for these stories and every once in a while the yt algorithm blesses me with these accounts given with such detail. I hope the man giving his experience is doing well today.
I feel the same exact way!!
Same here!
Pretty run of the mill stuff compared to what others had to deal with that day.
@@brucemacmillan9581 perhaps but his account was told well, and people who weren't directly affected that day, still wouldn't trade with him.
GOD was watching out for this man that day and even before with the hotel he was placed etc, not going to break yin the restaurant at the top that morning, GOD works in many ways
Thank you Don for your story. #Neverforget
Great story. I’m sure everyone who was there that day remembers every detail. I was in Arlington VA and when I heard the news I honestly thought the world was ending. It felt like Armageddon. Like his wife, I was also 5 months pregnant. My daughter was born January 16, 2002. I talk to her and my son born in 2005 about the events of 9-11 frequently because I want the generations who were born before it began to know.
Your story telling and account of your experience that day are incredible. I could picture everything you were saying. Also, as an IT professional, I remember watching 9/11 unfold while I was in a Network Operations Center (NOC), so I can totally connect when you talked about server rooms, etc. In fact, I was troubleshooting with a guy in the WTC remotely the day before. Thank you for sharing.
These stories of survival are fascinating. I'm glad you and your colleagues made it out alive. I weep for the souls that did not.
In one way i wanted him to go to the window to the world restaurant because you only live once, do it. But then i remembered if he did he would have been trapped and certainly died that day. Him not going to the top floor saved his life. I still cant quite fathom how this happened and wasnt just a horrific scene in a twisted film.
Im Australian and i always get emotional hearing and seeing anything about 9/11
Thanks for your story
I'm the same as you even after almost 23 years! I'm also a fellow Aussie as well xo ❤
Thnk u for sharing your story.
What a great American - Amazing human being.
I think the burned woman he is talking about was Virginia. Ive heard a testimony from a coworker of hers, and she was in so much pain...
Blowing black out of his nose and he didn't even know he had inhaled that much stuff reminded of the burn pits in Iraq. I wasn't even that close to them and I blew my nose and it was black. it is amazing how much particles are in the air and sometimes don't even realize.
God has all those that passed away from 9/11
I'm so glad you didn't go up to the restaurant for breakfast that day like you thought of doing
I love New York I am from Akron Ohio want to stay
Dear God please forgive my sins and forgive my mistakes accept my self just as I am I accept the Holy Spirit and save my soul
Never forget
The security guard from the 44th floor might have been the same one that another survivor ran into, on the same floor in his retreat out.
In his encounter he said the security guard was also with someone that had bad injuries, and asked the guy to call for help for them, as he stayed with that person. He didn't make it out.
He said the first building collapsed at 8:59. That's a mistake, I think it was 9:46. But I'm sure he just mispoke. Incredible story none the less.
Meant to say 09.59. North tower collapsed 29 mins later at 10.28.
Discredits every single word he said.
Clearly an illuminati plant or possibly a tree but definitely with the aluminaughties
It was a sad day wish it didn't happen 😢
If you hate America get out do not stay I am American and love my country
i thought the towers stayed up for quite a long time?
@dmgsoultogetherness6667
Think he meant to say 9.59 not 8.59
Pretty much an hour
For a computer nerd he was cute
No seriously you talk to computers you tell it to press the letters of the keys you press, you tell it to print, etc. The computer only does what you tell it to do. The computer can only do what you tell it to do it can't do what you don't
Sad... all the computers who didn't make it out alive that day.
How does this comment relate? This statement is nonsense.
@@roniangel3I have just read it too whilst listening to this man’s account of 9/11 and I have no idea 🤷🏻♀️
Oh the man above joked that he was there just with a bunch of computers so he joked he talks to the computers hence the post above being all serious - he was joking !
Remember he didn't see any plane hit the bldg. He only stated it must have been the first plane.
Maybe because he was in the server room? !! 🙄
@@mopanov Some people really aren't working with much mental horsepower.
9/11 hurt me so that I wanted to reenlist into the Navy because I wanted to be apart of getting our lick back.