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Originally posted by watch_the_rocks
Dammit, was Tom Clancy seriously talking about the attacks then? I wish I had been watching. That guy's a legend in my book.
And yeah, it could just be dust from the first collapse, unless you can confirm that the first one hadn't collapesed yet.
Originally posted by AnDroidX107
Originally posted by apex
If it's an explosion, it looks a little too grey. The fireballs from the jet fuel/explosive/mini nukes /etc were orange going to black smoke, whereas this looks to be concrete dust.
Originally posted by gottago
Originally posted by apex
If it's an explosion, it looks a little too grey. The fireballs from the jet fuel/explosive/mini nukes /etc were orange going to black smoke, whereas this looks to be concrete dust.
And how exactly in your book is all the WTC concrete turning to dust due to a gravity-driven collapse something normal?
"lol" indeed.
Originally posted by apex
Originally posted by gottago
Originally posted by apex
If it's an explosion, it looks a little too grey. The fireballs from the jet fuel/explosive/mini nukes /etc were orange going to black smoke, whereas this looks to be concrete dust.
And how exactly in your book is all the WTC concrete turning to dust due to a gravity-driven collapse something normal?
"lol" indeed.
I don't know, but I know that a directed nuke blast would have killed the firefighters who survived the collapse of the tower when they were still inside.
PICCIOTTO: I knew the B stairwell was open. I found that out a few minutes earlier. And I just started taking the firemen that were there that we were evacuating, and took them, take the ambulatory people first, the helpless, and then we started taking the nonambulatory people, the people in wheelchairs, walkers, crutches and started moving them to the B stairwell and going down.
KAGAN: And so you were able to get so many people out, but you weren't able to get yourself and so many people out before the north tower collapsed. How do you think it is? Was it just a freak the way that it collapsed, that you managed to survive and you weren't crushed?
PICCIOTTO: Without a doubt. Out of both towers, there is only one little area that remained in tact, and It really wasn't remained in tact but a void was created that myself, 11 other firemen, 12 firemen all together.
KAGAN: And a couple civilians.
PICCIOTTO: And one Port Authority police officer and one civilian, an African-American woman named Josephine, we were banged around, but we were alive in this area. We were covered with debris and had the wreckage all around us. Actually, we thought we were in a cave. It was a cave-like area, but we were alive and calling for help.
KAGAN: And did you lose hope in that moment, because it took time to get out of there?
PICCIOTTO: Never lost hope. I didn't think the odds were too good that we were going to get out. Always held on to that sliver of hope. But I really didn't think we were going to get out.
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Originally posted by teresius
wait...
what? are you saying that there were firefighters INSIDE of the collapsing wtc buildings that survived? i've never heard that before and, frankly, find it very hard to believe. no offense.
Carrying 100 pounds of gear, the group started climbing the stairs in the north tower to help.
When they reached the 28th floor, the building shook, and Jonas ordered his men to evacuate.
On the 19th floor, they came across an older woman, Josephine Harris, who had walked down from the 73rd floor. She was exhausted, and not sure she could continue.
Bill Butler, now a lieutenant, the strongest man in the unit, put his arm around her and guided her.
But Harris was slow, and when they reached the fourth floor, she stopped, protesting she couldn't go on.
Capt. Jonas feared for his men, but they would never leave Harris behind.
Then the rumbling started, and the north tower collapsed all around them. Miraculously, the area of the stairway they were in, Stairway B, remained intact.
Hours later, with Mayday calls and major efforts from their fellow firefighters, the group was found and rescued.
Originally posted by Tuning Spork
Originally posted by teresius
wait...
what? are you saying that there were firefighters INSIDE of the collapsing wtc buildings that survived? i've never heard that before and, frankly, find it very hard to believe. no offense.
'tis true, teresius. Here's a pretty famous event, and one of the few uplifting stories that came out of the events of that morning.
Carrying 100 pounds of gear, the group started climbing the stairs in the north tower to help.
When they reached the 28th floor, the building shook, and Jonas ordered his men to evacuate.
On the 19th floor, they came across an older woman, Josephine Harris, who had walked down from the 73rd floor. She was exhausted, and not sure she could continue.
Bill Butler, now a lieutenant, the strongest man in the unit, put his arm around her and guided her.
But Harris was slow, and when they reached the fourth floor, she stopped, protesting she couldn't go on.
Capt. Jonas feared for his men, but they would never leave Harris behind.
Then the rumbling started, and the north tower collapsed all around them. Miraculously, the area of the stairway they were in, Stairway B, remained intact.
Hours later, with Mayday calls and major efforts from their fellow firefighters, the group was found and rescued.
www.cbsnews.com...
[edit on 26-8-2007 by Tuning Spork]
Originally posted by apex
Originally posted by gottago
Originally posted by apex
If it's an explosion, it looks a little too grey. The fireballs from the jet fuel/explosive/mini nukes /etc were orange going to black smoke, whereas this looks to be concrete dust.
And how exactly in your book is all the WTC concrete turning to dust due to a gravity-driven collapse something normal?
"lol" indeed.
I don't know, but I know that a directed nuke blast would have killed the firefighters who survived the collapse of the tower when they were still inside.
what? are you saying that there were firefighters INSIDE of the collapsing wtc buildings that survived? i've never heard that before and, frankly, find it very hard to believe. no offense.
I don't believe you're correct about the content of Clancy's interview. Why? Clancy published a book in 1994 called "Debt of Honor" in which a 747 crashes into the Capital Building, killing most of the government. That's why they were interviewing him, because of the similarities between his book and the events of 9/11.
Originally posted by Valhall[/I]
I was watching. I saw this interview with Clancy. And I never will forget what he said...of course, I have to paraphrase, but it went like this:
Reporter asked: Could you have ever imagined a plot like this in one of your books?
Clancy answered: No, and even if I could have I probably couldn't have gotten it published...it's too unbelievable.
P.S. Clancy was interviewed in the afternoon/evening...sometime after 1:00 p.m. CT.
[edit on 8-26-2007 by Valhall] [/I]