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09/11/2026

Josephine Harris, a 59-year-old bookkeeper for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was descending Stairwell B of the North Tower on September 11, 2001, when a bad leg forced her to slow down, a delay that placed six firefighters from Ladder Company 6 in the one section of stairwell that survived the tower’s collapse.

Harris was evacuating from the 73rd floor when she collapsed from exhaustion and leg pain tied to a car accident she had suffered two weeks earlier. Rather than leave her, Ladder Company 6 members Captain Jay Jonas, Salvatore D’Agostino, Matt Komorowski, Bill Butler, Mike Meldrum and Tommy Falco stayed with her. At about the eighth floor, the North Tower came down on top of them, yet the stretch of Stairwell B where the group had stopped to help Harris withstood the collapse. “Had Harris been able to walk any faster, they reasoned, they all would have d*ed,” one account of the men’s reasoning noted, and D’Agostino later said, “Without us, Josephine would not have made it. And we feel without Josephine we would have d*ed.” All six firefighters, Harris and a Port Authority police officer survived, trapped in the rubble for hours before rescue.

The bond outlasted the tower. The men gave Harris a green jacket embroidered “Josephine Our Guardian Angel,” and she stayed close to the firehouse for years afterward. She d*ed of a heart attack at her Bushwick home on January 12, 2011, at age 69, after years of unemployment and financial hardship that left her body briefly unclaimed at the morgue. East Village funeral director Peter DeLuca, moved by her story, donated the cost of a full department funeral, and the same men she had unknowingly saved served as pallbearers, carrying her coffin into St. Joseph’s Church. “We felt it was an honor to do this for her and we feel very happy that she is in God’s hands,” Jonas said at the time. Her sister, Thelma Johnson, later returned the jacket to Ladder 6’s Chinatown firehouse ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks, so that, in her words, “generation after generation can see and know what the jacket meant.”

09/11/2026

Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street bond trading firm, lost 658 employees when its offices on the 101st through 105th floors of the North Tower were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Its chairman and CEO, Howard Lutnick, survived only because he was walking his five-year-old son, Kyle, to his first day of kindergarten that morning.

Lutnick’s brother Gary and his best friend were among those k*lled. In the days that followed, Lutnick became one of the public faces of the tragedy, giving tearful television interviews as he searched hospitals for missing employees. His decision to stop paychecks to victims’ families drew fierce criticism at the time. “I can’t pay their salaries. So they think we’re doing something wrong,” he told CNN’s Larry King that October. “I don’t have any money to pay their salaries.”

Lutnick then pledged to give the families 25 percent of Cantor Fitzgerald’s profits over the next five years, along with ten years of healthcare coverage for survivors. The promise was widely dismissed as unworkable, but the firm made good on it, distributing roughly $180 million to victims’ families by 2006 through the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, which Lutnick founded on September 14, 2001 with a personal $1 million donation.

Lutnick also vowed to employ the children of workers who had d*ed. “I’ve offered a job to every single kid,” he said. “If they want to work at Cantor Fitzgerald, I’ll figure out a way to give them a sh*t.” By 2016, 57 children of employees k*lled on 9/11 were working at the firm.

The Relief Fund has since raised more than $300 million overall and expanded its mission to support victims of terrorism, natural disasters and other emergencies, including a $10 million donation to families affected by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Cantor Fitzgerald and its affiliate BGC Group continue to donate all revenue earned each September 11 to charity, a tradition the firm has maintained every year since the attacks.

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