Last Men Out ; Exclusive World Trade Center Attacks: Five Years On Trapped Under Tons of Rubble for Over 13 Hours, Two New York Cops Were the Final People to Be Pulled Alive From the 9/11 Wreckage ..Now Their Story Is Retold in a New Movie

Sunday Mirror › August 20, 2006

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NO one has been so close to hell and come back again. Beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center, trapped under tons of rubble and twisted metal, fireballs raging around them, two New York cops waited to die.

They couldn't see each other. They couldn't reach out and touch each other. Yet somehow John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno survived for 13 agonising hours, keeping each other going before rescuers reached them... the last men to be brought out alive from the tomb of the Twin Towers.

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Last Men Out ; Exclusive World Trade Center Attacks: Five Years On Trapped Under Tons of Rubble for Over 13 Hours, Two New York Cops Were the Final People to Be Pulled Alive From the 9/11 Wreckage ..Now Their Story Is Retold in a New Movie

"I think we both had accepted our fate," Mr McLoughlin, 53, says today.

"I think we both came to believe we were going to burn to death where we lay, in the darkness. I was never particularly religious before, but down there in the hole I was very religious.

I prayed for a miracle, and it came."...

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