Cameraman has some serious balls. Footage from what looked like inside the second tower before it fell.
Looks like he was in WTC 7, not the second tower.
But still, he was right underneath the looming tower practically the entire time. And then hunkered down when it came down and the dust cloud blasted by him.
Looking more into him, he seems to be quite the accomplished photojournalist. He was doing the only thing he knew to do in that situation, documenting and interviewing while it was all raw. Bravo to that man and glad he made it out of there.
Such a raw and visceral thing, I hope he escaped without any health complications from all that dust too.
What I can say with certainty is I am so grateful that this did not happen in today's world. Smartphone cameras everywhere, everyone recording from every angle. The videos would have been far more gutwrenching, with recordings inside the towers. Live streams from people in the tower as the tower collapses on them. Just thinking about those perspectives, even without having been recorded, is plenty gutwrenching enough for me.
Oh and just found out that almost cricket-like alarm noise (not the alarms sounding in the building at one point)... those are coming from PASS devices, which are on every fireman's tank gear. They start sounding when the device doesn't detect motion for 30 seconds.
At various points during that video, you can hear a lot of those alarms, specifically at any point where he's remotely near any rubble.
I found that out while looking into whether Mark is still alive. It appears he is, a cameraman for CBS 60 minutes.
Rewatching some moments of the video and hearing the PASS devices... goddamn.
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