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Not while in the jet fuel, but that was localized. A tiny number of people survived the collapse while inside the WTC. https://www.history.com/news/world-trade-center-stairwell-de.... Miraculously, their small group ended up being the only survivors within the stairwells of the north tower after it collapsed, somehow emerging from a pocket of rubble.

Presumably the contents of various safes similarly survived.

oh duh, that makes sense.

The ones that could are probably too heavy to be 50 stories up.

Figure the typical sporting-goods store gun safe weighs about 350 lbs (159 kg) and isn't really all that secure (a sawzall with a metal blade can open them). They don't do much better if you drop them from "only" 200 feet up (61 meters):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFppQZRdqY

my sporting goods safe is the size of a full size fridge and weighs 1400 lbs

That’s not a ‘typical’ gun safe. It’s not uncommon, but it’s definitely it ‘typical’.

Presumably the entire building and its contents did not melt. There were probably many kicking around in the rubble.