9/11 Video: Kevin Cosgrove’s Chilling 911 Call From Twin Towers As They Collapse

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kevin-cosgrove[Video below.] The following is a heart-wrenching 5-minute audio clip of a person trapped in the burning World Trade Center during the final minutes before it collapsed.

It is a 911 audio recording of Kevin Cosgrove, calling from the 105th floor of the South Tower.

Cosgrove and others were huddled in the northwest corner of the building, near the top of the tower.

As the building collapses, Cosgrove screams as he’s consumed by the explosion and the line goes dead.

A transcript follows the full audio. Click below to watch and listen:

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Transcript of Kevin Cosgrove’s call to 911

9-11: What’s the telephone number I can tell FD to push up? What’s the telephone number you’re calling from?

KC: I can barely see.

9-11: You can barely see?

KC: 4-4-1… .

9-11: 4-4-1… .

KC: 2-6-2-3

9-11: That’s on the 105th floor of the Northwest corner, right?

KC: Right.

9-11: At number Two World Trade Center?

KC: Right … Lady, there’s two of us in this office. We’re not ready to die, but it’s getting bad.

9-11: I understand, sir. We’re trying to get all the apparatuses there. I am trying to let them know where you are. Stay on the line

KC: Oh, please hurry.

Fire Department: Let me talk to the caller please … Let me talk to the caller. Where is he?

9-11: He’s on the line.

FD: Let me talk to him … Where is the fire, sir?

KC: Smoke really bad. 105 Two Tower.

FD: Alright. Sit tight. We’ll get to you as soon as we can.

KC: They keep saying that, but the smoke’s really bad now.

FD: That’s all we can do now.

KC: What floor are you guys up to?

FD: We’re getting there. We’re getting there.

KC: Doesn’t feel like it, man. I got young kids.

FD: I understand that, sir. We’re on the way.

9-11: He’s on the 105th floor in the Northwest corner.

KC: He hung up on me … Hello, operator?

9-11: Yes?

KC: Come on, man.

9-11: We have everything we need, sir.

KC: I know you do, but doesn’t seem like it … You got lots of people up here.

9-11: I understand.

KC: I know you got a lot in the building, but we are on the top. Smoke raises, too. We are on the floor. We’re in the window. I can barely breathe now. I can’t see.

9-11: Okay, just try to hang in there. I’m going to stay with you.

KC: You can say that, you’re in an air-conditioned building. What the hell happened?

9-11: Okay. I’m still here … still trying … The Fire Department is trying to get to you.

KC: Doesn’t feel like it.

9-11: Okay, try to calm down so you can conserve your oxygen, okay? Try to …

KC: Tell God to blow the wind from the West. It’s really bad. It’s black. It’s arid. Does anyone else wanna chime in here? We’re young men. We’re not ready to die.

9-11: I understand.

KC: How ….are you going to get [me] down? I need oxygen.

9-11: They’re coming. They’re getting you. They have a lot of apparatuses on the scene.

KC: It doesn’t feel like it, lady. You get them in from all over. You get ’em in from Jersey. I don’t give… Ohio.

9-11: Okay, sir. What’s your last name?

KC: Name’s Cosgrove. I must have told you about a dozen times already. C.O.S.G.R.O.V.E. My wife thinks I’m alright. I called and said I was leaving the building and that I was fine and then — bang … Cherry. Doug Cherry. Doug Cherry’s next to me. 105. Whose office? John Ostaru’s office?

9-11: That’s where he said? That’s the office?

KC: We’re in John Ostaru’s office. O.S.T.A.R.U.

9-11: A.R.U.

KC: Right. That’s the office we’re in. There are three of us in here.

9-11: Ostaru. Hello?

KC: Hello. We’re looking in … We’re overlooking the Financial Center. Three of us. Two broken windows. Oh God. Oh … (the tower collapses)

{Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}


12 COMMENTS

  1. heart wrenching!!!!!
    poor souls…
    May Hashem avenge the losses….
    What they must have gone through in the last moments….you can’t even begin to imagine….
    Hope you are all at peace now.

  2. rest in peace. may we all have the strength to do the best we can do, and alot of acts of kindness in all these people’s honor. HaShem Yerachem.
    We need more of our own Jews doing mitzvos now!

  3. As Sept 11, 2001 slips further away and life goes on 11 years later we need something like this to remind us of the sacrifices that day – his kids are now 11 years older but without their dad.

  4. Thank you for making me feel grateful every day just to be alive. God Bless your family, friends and loved ones. May you rest in eternal peace~~

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