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- In what's been described as a "strong, authoritative voice," Crowther directed survivors to the stairway and encouraged them to help others while he carried an injured woman on his back. After bringing her 15 floors down to safety, he made his way back up to help others. One of the women he helped, Judy Rein, credits him with saving her life.
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Crowther made his way to the 78th-floor sky lobby, where he encountered a group of survivors, including a badly burned Ling Young, who worked on the 86th floor in New York's Department of Taxation and Finance.
Sep 11, 2014 · Amid the smoke, chaos and debris, Crowther helped injured and disoriented office workers to safety, risking his own life in the process. Though they couldn't see much...
Sep 11, 2024 · One survivor, Ling Young, remembers how Welles led her and others down 17 floors to safety, only to turn back and help others trapped on the upper floors. He carried a woman on his back and returned to guide more people to the stairwell.
Aug 28, 2016 · On Sept. 11, 2001, Welles Crowther sat at his desk on the 104th floor in the south tower of the World Trade Center and dialed his mother’s cellphone. His mother, Alison, never heard the call ...
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Sep 11, 2001 · The Crowther Family ultimately learned, almost 3 years later, that Welles and the members of FDNY with whom he was recovered, had been on their way back up the South Tower with a Hurst “jaws of life” tool to free victims who were trapped under debris, presumably in the Sky Lobby.
A few months after 9/11, stories from survivors surfaced about the mysterious man wearing the red bandana. When Alison Crowther read an article about the hero in the New York Times, she knew that man was her son, 24-year-old Welles Crowther. He had carried a red handkerchief since he was a boy.
Survivors of the attacks recall a “mysterious man” appearing before them who had located the only functioning stairway and was directing people on his floor towards it. Welles also managed to obtain a fire extinguisher and put out haphazard fires that blocked their way.
