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Pitch ordered his firefighters to stop and form a human bucket brigade to thrust the civilians out of the building, and the blue uniforms instantly lined the sides of the stairwell. Fourteen minutes had elapsed since the collapse of Tower 2. Pushing and cajoling them down and out Pitch was in the 7th floor stairwell when a sound of thunder was heard from above. It took eight seconds for Tower 1 to fall, accordioning into a mound of burning rubble most have likened to hell. Pitch and a handful of survivors woke to find themselves buried on the landing of floor 2, in an inky cavity broken by the screams of hurt men. 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