THE THIRD MAN
Ron DiFrancesco was the last person out of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. His account of being helped and led out of the building by divine intervention is in a book by JOHN GEIGER called "The Third Man."

He groped his way down, unable to see more than a few feet ahead. He stopped at a landing in the middle of the impact zone, on the seventy-ninth or eightieth floor. Overcome by the smoke, he joined others, about a dozen people in all, some stretched out facedown on the concrete floor, others crouched in the corners, all gasping for air. They were blocked from descending further by a collapsed wall. He could see panic in their eyes, and fear. Some were crying. Several began to slip into unconsciousness. Then, something remarkable happened: "Someone told me to get up." Someone, he said, "called me." The voice which was male, but did not belong to one of the people in the stairwell was insistent: "Get up!" It addressed DiFrancesco by his first name, and gave him encouragement: "It was, 'Hey! You can do this.'" But it was more than a voice; there was also a vivid sense of a physical presence.

A lot of people made split-second decisions that day that determined whether they lived or died. What is different about Ron DiFrancesco is that, at a critical moment, he received help from a seemingly external source. He had the sensation that "somebody lifted me up." He felt that he was being guided: "I was led to the stairs. I don't think something grabbed my hand, but I was definitely led."

You can read the whole story as well as a couple of others - the First Chapter is available online. I'll have to check this one out further.