CAPTAIN JAY JONAS and the men of Ladder 6 soon realized that if they hadn’t encountered Josephine Harris inside Stairwell B, they might have been among the dead. If they had stuck to their original double-step evacuation pace, they might have caught up to Chief Richard Prunty in the lobby where he died. If they’d rushed faster, they might have been just outside the North Tower, where the collapse crushed Chief of Department Peter Ganci Jr., First Deputy Commissioner William Feehan, and numerous others. Or, if they’d hung back like some other firefighters, if Jay hadn’t ordered an immediate
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