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June '01 - Attorney General John Ashcroft stops flying commercial aircrafts because of a 'threat assessment'
Sept 13 - Airplane passenger lists from all four hijacked planes list no Arab names.
Firefighter Louie Cacchioli in elevator going to 24th floor hears a bomb go off
and thinks bombs were set in the building.
Originally, on September 12, 2001, People Magazine ran a few short paragraphs about the 20-year veteran New York fireman hearing what sounded like bombs exploding in the north tower.
Short and sweet, that was it. A few short words about bombs exploding, but words that were repeated over and over again in story after story by writers and broadcasters who never even bothered to talk to him in the first place.
Furthermore, Cacchioli was upset that People Magazine misquoted him, saying "there were bombs" in the building when all he said was he heard "what sounded like bombs" without having definitive proof bombs were actually detonated.
He entered the elevator with the last company that went up. They went up to the 24th floor or the 22nd floor and the company was getting off. I think it was the truck company at that time, because he grabbed the last guy getting out, who was the irons man and he said "You gotta stay with me, because I need tools in the elevator
At that time, the doors closed and that's when the power went out. Which, what we found out later was when the south tower fell down. They were able to force their way out of the elevator and for some reason the guy from the truck, from 13 truck, went to the right and he went to the left and found a stairwell and he was able to make it out.
Q. Who is "he"?
A. Louie Cacchioli
Commissioner Stephen Gregory along with a Lieutenant Evangelista from Ladder 146 say they both saw multiple flashes coming from the lower level of the WTC 2 right before it collapsed and mentions the flashes they saw are like what you'd see when they 'blow up a building.'
he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down".
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
... Cacchioli ... said was he heard "what sounded like bombs" ...
www.arcticbeacon.com...
Commissioner Stephen Gregory... saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down".
www.nytimes.com...
9. Sept 10 - FEMA rescuer Tom Kenney says he was deployed to NYC late Monday night before going into action Tuesday morning, the day of the attacks.
12. Sept 12 - FEMA was scheduled to participate in an attack drill in NYC.