Rick Rescorla was a U.S. Army officer, and he served as a security officer at an investment bank in New York after his retirement. He trained employees to evacuate quarterly after the explosion in the basement of the building, and the training was done very strictly. It was so strict that people complained about disruption to work.
“Life is more important than work. Training for crisis situations is essential.”
Rescorla, who always stressed the need for training, died in the line of duty on September 11, 2001. When a terrorist attack was launched on the first building of the World Trade Center, an announcement was made not to leave the building in the second building. Noticing that was a wrong decision, Rescorla instructed his employees to leave the building immediately. Everyone went downstairs of the building in order as they had been trained. Rescorla extricated around 3,000 people safely including visitors and went back inside the building to save the rest. But soon, the building collapsed.