William J. Jimeno (born November 26, 1967) is a Port Authority Police officer who survived the September 11 attacks. He was buried under the rubble for a total of 13 hours, but survived, along with fellow Port Authority officer John McLoughlin.
Jimeno was born in 1967 in Colombia but immigrated to New York City as a boy with his family.
At the time of the attacks, he was a rookie cop assigned to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. He saw the shadow ...
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William J. Jimeno (born November 26, 1967) is a Port Authority Police officer who survived the September 11 attacks. He was buried under the rubble for a total of 13 hours, but survived, along with fellow Port Authority officer John McLoughlin.
Jimeno was born in 1967 in Colombia but immigrated to New York City as a boy with his family.
At the time of the attacks, he was a rookie cop assigned to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. He saw the shadow of the airplane that seconds later hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He rode to the WTC site with 20 other Port Authority police officers in a commandeered bus.
The collapse of the South Tower trapped Jimeno and three other Port Authority officers, led by Sgt. McLoughlin, under the Concourse between the twin towers. Only Jimeno and McLoughlin survived. Dominick Pezzulo survived the initial collapse but was killed by the collapse of the North Tower while he was trying to free Jimeno.
A USA Today account observed:
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