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Then, according to Gale Student Resources in Context, at 8:14, United Airlines Flight 175 took off at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. At 9:03, it became the second plane to crash into the Twin Towers, killing everyone aboard and many people in the South tower where it hit. Later, the North tower of the Twin Towers fell at 10:28 a.m. The mayor of New York at the time, Rudolph Giuliani, declared the evacuation of Lower Manhattan as emergency personnel continued to search for survivors. Like the New York firefighters, rescue workers from across the United States also put their lives at risk. Many worked twelve- to sixteen-hour shifts searching for survivors. They worked in toxic debris in what became known as “Ground Zero” (9/11). The second plane was the end of the terror in New York, but not for the rest of the