Des Moines-based Seabury & Smith, a program management firm, and parent company Marsh Inc., which bought the West Des Moines-based Kirke-Van Orsdel Inc., confirmed the safety of 500 employees Tuesday, including most of the 200 Seabury & Smith employees who report to the West Des Moines operations and work in the Trade Center South Tower, which was hit by the second plane.
But the company had heard from only a few of about 1,300 Marsh employees who work in the World Trade Center North Tower, which terrorists hit first. A toll-free number has been established for employees and family members at (888) 374-6377.
Many of the 500 employees reported safe were saved by a new “persistent” employee who persuaded others to leave, Kirke Dorweiler, managing director of Seabury & Smith in West Des Moines, said in a press release. They apparently had been told to stay in the building until it was safe.
Monica Green, a Seabury & Smith vice president, has an office in the World Trade Center II in addition to her West Des Moines office. Green was last at the office two weeks ago. Watching the explosion “was horrific. It was unimaginable. It was like a surrealistic movie going on.”
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