Surviving 9/11: Tim Grant's Story From the 105th Floor

Surviving 9/11: my friend of over thirty years, Tim Grant, is speaking publicly for the first time about what happened to him that morning. Tim was on the 105th floor of the South Tower at the World Trade Center — one of only a handful of people who made it out from that floor and above. In this conversation, he walks me through that day minute by minute: the heat and fireball when the first plane hit the tower next door, his decision to leave his desk immediately rather than wait for instructions, and the more than one hundred flights of stairs he descended, which grew far more crowded and much slower once the second plane struck his own building while he was already partway down, around the 60th floor. He also describes his desperate attempt afterward to reach his fiancée from a payphone with no cell service working. Twenty-five years later, Tim opens up about what came after — the funerals, becoming a father, and how that morning has shaped the way he's lived every day since.

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:03:31) Tim's morning on September 11th before anything happened

(00:07:09) Feeling the heat from the first plane hitting Tower One

(00:09:55) Tim's decision to leave his desk immediately

(00:13:08) Descending to the 78th floor with Rob and Tom

(00:18:00) The second plane hits Tim's own building

(00:25:01) Reaching the bottom and the devastation outside

(00:44:03) Life after 9/11 — funerals, family, and moving forward

(00:47:58) Tim's message on what he wants us to remember

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