Lauren Manning is a survivor of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Her long recovery from massive burn injury was documented in a book authored by her husband, Greg Manning, entitled Love, Greg & Lauren, published in 2002.
Lauren Manning was a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment bank which had several floors of offices in the World Trade Center, and which lost 658 employees when the buildings were destroyed. Manning had just entered the North Tower when it was hit by the aircraft. A wave of burning jet fuel exploded from one of the elevator shafts, enveloping Manning and setting her aflame. She ran to the street where she was extinguished by a bystander and loaded onto one of the first ambulances on the scene.
Her injuries were nearly fatal, with 82.5% of her body surface burned. She was one of seventeen 9/11 victims treated at the New York Presbyterian Hospital burn unit. She was treated there for three months, followed by three more months at the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains, New York. Lauren Manning's story was chronicled on the front page of The New York Times on October 17, 2001, as she was slowly emerging from her month-long drug-induced coma.
In 2011 her book "Unmeasured Strength" was published.
Manning and her husband have two children.
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