Secret Service Agent Reveals How He Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11

About this video

Ritland’s guest, identified as ‘DK,’ a former Secret Service agent, recounts his experience during the September 11, 2001 attacks. DK describes being in the Secret Service field office in 7 World Trade Center when the first plane struck, evacuating and providing first aid on the street, entering the North Tower with colleagues Tom and John to help evacuate people, and his harrowing escape when Tower 2 collapsed. He shares how he now uses his survival story to call people out of darkness toward faith, drawing parallels between guiding survivors to light that day and his current mission of pointing people toward what he describes as spiritual light.

Key takeaways

• DK attributes his survival decisions that day to divine intervention, noting he avoided sheltering under vehicles that would have trapped him and instead kept running when Tower 2 collapsed
• The guest recounts encountering New York City firefighters around the 30th floor who were preparing to go back up despite the danger; he assumes they were among the 343 firefighters who died that day
• DK describes how calling people toward light through darkness on 9/11 became a metaphor for his current faith-based mission to help others, connecting his experience to his Christian beliefs about Jesus as ’the light of the world’

Episode details: published September 11, 2026 · 173.8K views · 22:08 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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