Manning remained conscious despite her injuries and watched as the second plane was crashed into the South Tower . Having been at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing , Manning recognized that this was another terrorist attack . She recollects that she " made the decision in those moments to live " after thinking of her ten-month old son . She was forced to re-cross the street to board an ambulance , which had pulled up to the burning building approximately 40 minutes after the attacks began . The ambulance did not depart until approximately ten minutes before South Tower collapsed . Manning had suffered an 82.5 percent total body surface area ( TBSA ) burn , with 75 percent of those burns third degree
World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Lauren Manning