Tuesday, August 12, 2025

 I don't remember them mentioning this hotel, also destroyed, not hit directly, but was between the twin towers..


On the morning of September 11, 2001, Washington D.C.–based lawyer Frank Razzano was in his room at the World Trade Center Marriott Hotel, situated between the Twin Towers. Razzano was awoken by the sound of Flight 11 striking the North Tower. Seeing fluttering papers, but not realizing the scale of the emergency, he decided to take a shower and continue getting ready for his busy day. 

Razzano had collected his belongings and was preparing to leave his room when he saw “a curtain of concrete and steel” falling toward his window as the South Tower collapsed. He ran to the opposite side of his room as the debris rained down overtop the hotel.

At the same time that Razzano was showering and collecting his belongings, firefighter Jeff Johnson was dispatched with FDNY Engine Co. 74. to the World Trade Center with instructions to search for and evacuate civilians in the Marriott Hotel. Johnson and his company were searching two floors above Razzano when the South Tower collapsed.

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