{"id":78360,"date":"2026-09-07T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/25-years-ago-two-strangers-met-in-the-twin-towers-and-escaped-on-9-11-what-happened-next\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:56:12","slug":"25-years-ago-two-strangers-met-in-the-twin-towers-and-escaped-on-9-11-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/25-years-ago-two-strangers-met-in-the-twin-towers-and-escaped-on-9-11-what-happened-next\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9\/11. What happened next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Primnath and Brian Clark were two of only four individuals known to have survived above the impact zone in the north tower<\/p>\n<p>He has told the story hundreds of times, but it never seems to fade. If anything, it only becomes more vivid. \u201cOh, gosh,\u201d exclaims Stanley Praimnath, his voice cracking with an \u201cooooooh!\u201d as if bearing a weight. \u201cIt\u2019s like reliving that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 3,000 people died in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/sep\/01\/9-11-documentary-netflix-turning-point\">terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC<\/a> on September 11 2001. But Praimnath and another office worker, Brian Clark, were two of only four individuals known to have survived from above the impact zone in either tower of the World Trade Center. The two strangers met in the smoke and fire of the 81st floor of the south tower, and walked down 1,620 steps into the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/07\/strangers-twin-towers-escape-september-11\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Primnath and Brian Clark were two of only four individuals known to have survived above the impact zone in the north tower He has told the story hundreds of times, but it never seems to fade. If anything, it only becomes more vivid. \u201cOh, gosh,\u201d exclaims Stanley Praimnath, his voice cracking with an \u201cooooooh!\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9\/11. What happened next?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/25-years-ago-two-strangers-met-in-the-twin-towers-and-escaped-on-9-11-what-happened-next\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9\/11. What happened next?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}