COLUMBUS, Ohio — Twenty-four years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the memories remain vivid for Shatisha Williams, a central Ohio resident, who was near Ground Zero that morning.

Williams was on a bus commuting to her job at the North Tower of the World Trade Center when she heard the first reports on the radio. What she initially thought was a minor incident quickly escalated into a nightmare.

"The bus driver had the radio on and then it said something happened at the World Trade Center so then I immediately called my office and spoke to one of my coworkers and he said, 'The building blew up. We got to get out,' and he hangs up on me," Williams said.

As the towers collapsed, Williams described scenes of panic and devastation.

“It was chaos. It was complete chaos,” she said. “

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