![]() A little later, a fireman appeared a short distance below. He pulled his shirt over his face to breathe. ![]() His right leg, though, was in pain, a sign, he understood, that he was alive. He heard explosions.īuzzelli, who is six two, 270 pounds (just that morning, he’d decided to join Weight Watchers), looked around and thought, I’m dead. (He may be the source of the rumor that someone surfed the collapse and lived.) He was atop a hill of rubble in the midst of an endless field of rubble, smoke, and fire, sitting as if in an armchair, his feet dangling over the edge. Maybe two hours later, he regained consciousness on a slab of concrete 180 feet below the 22nd floor. Suddenly, he seemed to be in free fall, and the walls seemed to separate and move away from him. “I felt the walls next to me crack and buckle on top of me,” he says. It sounded to Buzzelli like heavy objects were being dropped right above his head. Then, as he reached the 22nd floor, the building shook, stairs started to heave. The stairs were narrow, and clogged with people. Buzzelli took the lead, his briefcase over his shoulder. He assured her that he and a dozen other employees were about to head down Stairwell B. #Did anyone survive the tower collapse tvShe’d been watching on the giant TV in their family room-she’d turned it on after his first phone call. ![]() She was seven months pregnant and at their home in Rivervale, New Jersey. ![]() on September 11, 2001, he’d phoned his wife for the second time that morning. Photo: Nigel Parryīuzzelli’s office had been on the 64th floor of the North Tower. Back From the Dead: Louise and Pasquale Buzzelli with their baby, Hope. ![]()
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