Author: Osoyoos Times

Richard Picciotto, a fire chief in the New York City Fire Department, was between the sixth and seventh floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when it collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

“Eight seconds later, I thought I was dead.”

But Picciotto didn’t die in the tower’s collapse, and he told his story to a full house at the Osoyoos Indian Band Economic Development Corporation banquet dinner on Oct. 22, as a guest speaker.

Richard Picciotto, a fire chief in the New York City Fire Department, was between the sixth and seventh floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when it collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

“Eight seconds later, I thought I was dead.”

But Picciotto didn’t die in the tower’s collapse, and he told his story to a full house at the Osoyoos Indian Band Economic Development Corporation banquet dinner on Oct. 22, as a guest speaker.