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9/11 Survivor Brian Clark Reflects On His Escape Minutes Before The Building Collapsed

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Published September 11, 2020 at 11:40 AM CDT

Smoke pours from the World Trade Center after it was hit by two hijacked passenger planes on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City. (Robert Giroux/Getty Images)

For the full article from 2016, click here.

Host Jeremy Hobson talks to Brian Clark, who was working on the 84th floor of the 2 World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

He was one of the few people who were able to escape from one of the floors above where the plane hit the building. On his way down, he stopped to help another man trapped in the rubble, Stanley Praimnath.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.