![]() "I've been coming every Saturday since that day. "We asked the priest to give her the last rites and he did that when we got her to St Vincent's," he said. Paul Adams, the paramedic who rushed Ms Duch to hospital, spoke of his amazement at her being able to leave hospital. "It was about a month ago when I woke up and somebody told me it was a plane. She spent more than three months under sedation as surgeons worked on her horrendous burns, and she did not know that hijacked planes had carried out the attack. Ms Duch, who lost virtually all her skin in the fire, was helped down the 44 storeys by two strangers who took her to an ambulance which rushed her to hospital, where doctors classified her as "critical". It captures the shock, grief and fear after the World Trade Center attack. "They got an elevator and we got down to the 44th floor and from there we walked all the way down. 7 min This story was originally published in The Washington Post on Sept. I do not know whether I was on fire or it was the heat. If I was a few steps further in, I would have been burned up. It was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon. "I was in the hallway in my office then all of a sudden it looked like fire. It was American Airlines Flight 77, a jetliner hijacked by five Saudi men affiliated with al-Qaeda. Ms Duch told how she stood in the lobby of her office in the first tower to be hit and saw the fire begin. "After spending all the time in hospital I am ready to move on," she said. She was the last World Trade Centre victim to leave the Weill Cornwell burns unit in New York, which treated many of the seriously injured from the World Trade Centre. ![]() ![]() Guzman-McMillan, now 51, was the lone survivor among her colleagues and was miraculously rescued after spending 27 hours trapped under the rubble. When they reached the 13th floor, the tower collapsed on them. Ms Duch, 49, still faces months of treatment, but her recovery so far has amazed doctors who had to resuscitate her on September 11. Guzman-McMillan and her colleagues decided to take the staircase down after the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. As she left hospital she said: "I want to get back to the way I was." ![]()
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