‘A minute saved my life’: 9/11 officer recounts tragic attacks

An NYPD officer who survived the 9-11 attacks, recounts the tragic events and the split second decision that may have saved his life.

September 11, 2001 was a day that changed the world. It was the single deadliest terror attack in American history.

NYPD Detective Steven Stefanakos was right in the middle of it.

“It started off slow and you heard each floor as it pancaked down, slowly into each other, into each other,” Stefanakos. “A minute saved my life.”

Until there was nothing left of the towers.

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