From the September 10, 2021, Chicago Tribune by Ron Grossman.
New York firefighter James Canham was supposed to have off on September 11, 2001. His wife worked in Manhattan, not far from the World Trade Center, so he drove her to work and headed back to their home in Brooklyn.
Once home, finding an answering machine message about an airplane hitting the north tower of the World Trade, he grabbed gear from a nearby firehouse and got a lift back to Manhattan. Working his way up to the 11thfloor, he rescued a woman and an exhausted cop and found an office with a working phone.
"This is real bad, I'm going to be here for awhile," he told his wife. "Go home, get the kids, stay out of Manhattan."
Canhan got out of the tower just before it collapsed.
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