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As a bewildered public endeavored to assimilate this overwhelming event, at 9∶03 a.m., a second hijacked jet crashed into Two W.T.C. Millions of people around the world, having been alerted to the incident and now watching the terror unfold on their televisions, watched in shock as the second plane, in the blink of an eye, entered the south tower at approximately the seventy-second floor and partially exited the opposite wall. Fire and police departments were mobilized immediately. Rapid evacuation of the buildings was crucial. Many workers on upper floors, knowing there was no escape, committed suicide by hurling themselves out of windows to their deaths. Then, 62 minutes after it had been crashed into, the south tower crumbled into the streets in a gigantic cloud of dust and debris. Hundreds of police and firefighters intent on their rescue mission lost their lives as Two W.T.C. collapsed. Drivers and attendants of emergency vehicles, | 
