"Lady, there's two of us in this office. We're not ready to die but it's getting bad. [...] I know you've got a lot in the building but we're up on the top. Smoke rises too. Come on, I can barely breathe now — can't see. It's really bad, it's black, it's arid. We're young men, not ready to die."
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Kevin Cosgrove
1973 – 2001
(January 6, 1955 – September 11, 2001) was an American insurance senior business executive who served as vice president at Aon Corporation. A victim of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Cosgrove is notable for the 9-1-1 call he made during his final moments, which abruptly ended with him screaming from inside the South Tower as it collapsed.
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