ayzee
Banned
- 3,144
- 1,748
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2013
The whole story
[h2]SALTY[/h2]Roselle (March 12, 1998 – June 26, 2011) was born in San Rafael, California, on March 12, 1998, at the Guide Dogs for the Blind. She was moved to Santa Barbara, California, to be raised by Kay and Ted Stern. After this she was returned to Guide Dogs for the Blind so that she could be trained as a guide dog.[sup][4][/sup] Roselle and her owner, Michael Hingson, first met on November 22, 1999. She was Hingson's fifth guide dog.[sup][5][/sup]
Roselle was asleep under her owner's desk on the 78th floor in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center when the attack commenced. She was awoken by the plane impacting some fifteen floors above them.[sup][3][/sup] Roselle calmly led Hingson to stairwell B, despite the smoke, confusion and noise surrounding her.[sup][6][/sup]
She led her owner and 30 other people down 1,463 steps out of the tower. After descending over half the distance, they passed the firemen who were heading up, who Roselle stopped to greet.[sup][7][/sup] The descent took just over an hour. Just after they exited the tower, Tower 2 collapsed, sending debris flying.[sup][8][/sup] Hingson later said, "While everyone ran in panic, Roselle remained totally focused on her job, while debris fell around us, and even hit us, Roselle stayed calm."[sup][9][/sup] Once clear, Roselle led her owner to the safety of a subway station,[sup][9][/sup] where they helped a woman who had been blinded by falling debris.
Once they arrived home, Roselle immediately began playing with her retired guide dog predecessor, Linnie, as if nothing important had happened.[sup][1[/sup]
Salty (December 12, 1996 – March 28, 200 was trained as a guide dog in early 1998 by Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown Heights, New York.[sup][1][/sup] Part of his training included taking trips on the New York City Subway and getting used to traffic in the Bronx. Omar Rivera was introduced to Salty by his instructor, Caroline McCabe-Sandler.[sup][1][/sup]
When the attacks occurred on September 11, Salty and his owner, Omar Rivera, found themselves on the 71st floor.[sup][2][/sup] Rivera was working at the headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. After refusing to leave Rivera's side, Salty and Rivera's supervisor, Donna Enright, led him to safety.[sup][3][/sup] About halfway down, a co-worker, trying to help, tried to take Salty's lead but the dog refused to leave Omar.