Read what is recorded, who helped and what remains uncertain. The 3D scene is an optional illustration.
Geometry and motion are estimated. Facts and testimony are sourced individually.
Time precision · Date only; exact time not established
Welles Remy Crowther · guiding others to the stairs
People and actions
The museum, drawing on survivor accounts, describes Crowther helping people reach the stairs from the South Tower sky lobby. He worked in equities and was a volunteer firefighter.
A contingency-plan binder created by Rescorla is dated December 1999. The collection describes his security role and his direction of employee evacuation from the South Tower on September 11, 2001.
Time precision · Date only; exact time not established
People helping people · collective evacuation
People and actions
The Commission describes tenants assisting one another, responders guiding exits and help for people who could not evacuate without assistance. These actions cannot all be reduced to individual rescue totals.
What to remember
Keep mutual aid and accessible evacuation visible, including people whose names are absent from this selection.
What this record does not establish
Exact personal routes, action times and individual rescue totals are not established here.