Despite the fact that an incident had occurred within the buildings, not many companies formally evacuated their staff; many of the early evacuees had made the decision on their own to leave. In the South Tower, however, Morgan Stanley’s efforts likely saved scores or even hundreds of lives. The company, which occupied floors 59 to 74, as well as a few other, scattered lower floors, had invested heavily in evacuation equipment and training following the 1993 bombing, and its vice president of security, a former British paratrooper–turned–Vietnam veteran named Rick Rescorla, ignored the Port
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