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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The California 9/11 memorial ensures that we retrieve each of the lives that were mislaid connected 9/11.
Erik Ronningen remembers 9/11 similar it was yesterday.
He was connected the 71st level of the North Tower erstwhile the archetypal level slammed into the building.
"The explosions supra was truthful tremendous I thought the operation was coming down," Ronningen said.
After an hr down 71 flights of stairs, Ronningen yet made it outside.
"I turned astir and I looked astatine the towers and I became alert that the South Tower had been deed and it was wholly engulfed successful flames up above, and I instantly knew this was a violent attack," Ronningen said.
After attempting to prevention his champion person wrong the South Tower astatine the information bid center, helium was capable to flight contempt the debris and flooded floors.
Ronningen was the past idiosyncratic to marque it retired of the South Tower alive.
"I watched the South Tower collapse. At the aforesaid time. There's thousands of radical went into a panic," Ronningen said.
Every year, the California 9/11 Memorial honors the 2,977 radical who mislaid their lives connected 911, including the archetypal responders who sacrificed their lives.
Memorial committee subordinate Julie Debenedetto says Ronningen's communicative helps honor, educate, and remember, truthful we ne'er forget.
"It brings a full caller position to what happened connected that time and to perceive their stories," Debenedetto said.
