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Originally posted by pinch
Originally posted by ashamedamerican
I'm so tired of official story parrots claiming things like "Larry Silverstein meant pull the firefighters out of the building" that I have decided to put this one to rest once and for all.
Its posts like this one that ensures a never-ending source of humor and entertainment, if such can come out of Sept 11.
To think that Silverstein would, on national television, admit to knowing the building was rigged for demolition is really the absolute zenith of absurdity and hilariousness.
But, we've come to expect that from the Troothers, so full speed ahead!
[edit on 12-12-2008 by pinch]
Originally posted by Wildbob77
So you now believe that the NYFD was involved.
I think that is rubbish.
Originally posted by Wildbob77
reply to post by ashamedamerican
You are right. The firefighters were PULLED back several hours before the building collapsed. Whether or not a conspiracy was involved, I don't believe that the NYFD was involved in the demolition of this building.
A billionaire that lies...That's entirely possible. But I don't think that you get to be that rich by blurting out things you don't want know to the general public on TV.
Also, Silverstein didn't have any authority over the NYFD. He couldn't command them to do anything.
Originally posted by Wildbob77
Obviously one of the two is not telling the truth.
It just depends on what time the phone call was made. If Dan Nigro had already PULLED his men back before he call Silverstein, then both statements could be true.
Originally posted by cashlink
reply to post by Wildbob77
Yes! That is my opinion; those people all have a price tag. Who told you a chief can not be bought?
Originally posted by Wildbob77
There is plenty of information out there about firefighters and building 7.
There were fires raging in building 7. Rescues were underway when the decision was made to create a collapse zone around building 7. You have to remember that the firemen had just seen 2 buildings come down that day.
So, the firefighters pulled back. That's all documented. There is no cover up with regard to the movements of the NYFD that day.
Three hours after the firefighters were pulled back the building came down.
I stand my ground. There is no evidence that NYFD was involved in the collapse or demolition of building 7.
Originally posted by ashamedamerican
Originally posted by pinch
But, we've come to expect that from the Troothers, so full speed ahead!
By the way it would be spelled "truthers" not troothers, trufers, troofers, etc.
You may find this helpful in the future.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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I stand my ground. There is no evidence that NYFD was involved in the collapse or demolition of building 7.
Originally posted by Griff
But yet, no one gets dinged for this?
So, if we are "truthers", what does that make "them"? "Liars"?
And yes, I would have to say that if we're the "truthers" that would make them the "liars". star for you!
Originally posted by ashamedamerican
Wildbob 77:
You seriously think a fire chief ISN'T going to issue a letter saying something like that?
Yeah he's just going to blow a government coverup wide open...
Originally posted by pinch
Originally posted by ashamedamerican
Wildbob 77:
You seriously think a fire chief ISN'T going to issue a letter saying something like that?
Yeah he's just going to blow a government coverup wide open...
That's fine. We'll just let this lay out there and wallow with the nukes that brought the towers down or the invisible aircraft or the laser-destructo-beam or the hologram aircraft or the forward-spraying fuel or the "pod" or the missile that was fired a nanosecond before impact from the aforementioned invisible plane or the remote-control (invisible/hologrammed) aircraft or explosives were added during the construction or the entire building was wired for destruction in the hours before its failure or whatever else the Troothers can think up.
Its all good!
1g.) Political Baiting: You will not engage in politically-charged rhetoric, politically-inspired name-calling, and related right-versus-left political bickering while posting in any topical forum or discussion thread on AboveTopSecret.com. You will not alter political candidate names or party affiliations in order to insult or deride the opposition. i.e. "Shrillary", "McSame", "Obamanazi's", "Repukelicans", etc...
1. We walked over by number Seven World Trade Center as it was burning and saw this 40-plus story building with fire on nearly all floors. –FDNY Lieutenant Robert LaRocca
2. ...Just when you thought it was over, you're walking by this building and you're hearing this building creak and fully involved in flames. It's like, is it coming down next? Sure enough, about a half an hour later it came down. –FDNY Lieutenant James McGlynn
The biggest decision we had to make was to clear the area and create a collapse zone around the severely damaged [WTC 7] building. A number of fire officers and companies assessed the damage to the building. The appraisals indicated that thebuilding’s integrity was in serious doubt. [Fire Engineering magazine, 10/2002]
They told us to get out of there because they were
worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it,
coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon
building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom
corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over
to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up.
Looking over the smaller buildings. I just remember it was
tremendous, tremendous fires going on.
Finally they pulled us out. They said all right,
get out of that building because that 7, they were really
worried about. They pulled us out of there and then they
regrouped everybody on Vesey Street, between the water and
West Street. They put everybody back in there.
Finally it did come down. From there - this is much
later on in the day, because every day we wereso worried about that building we didn't really want to
get people close. They were trying to limit the amount
of people that were in there. Finally it did come down.
That's when they let the guys go in. I just remember we
started searching around all the rigs.
That was basically the rest of the day, the
rest of the night. We were searching around rigs looking
for men. That was it.
From then, we continued to operate and we got word on the handy talky traffic that there was another group that had formed over on Church Street and Chief Tom Earing from the Eighth Division, now he's down in the Sixth Division, had set up and was operating on that side. We set up a staging area further up. Eventually we moved once things got going, and moved up closer to the staging area down a little closer to the actual operation.
Early on, there was concern that 7 World Trade Center might have been both impacted by the collapsing tower and had several fires in it and there was a concern that it might collapse. So we instructed that a collapse area --
Q. A collapse zone?
A. Yeah -- be set up and maintained so that when the expected collapse of 7 happened, we wouldn't havepeople working in it. There was considerable discussion with Con Ed regarding the substation in that building and the feeders and the oil coolants and soon. And their concern was of the type of fire we might have when it collapsed. They shut down the power, and when it did collapse, the things that they were concerned with would have been. That's about it.
So we gathered up rollups and most of us had masks at that time. We headed toward 7. And just around we were about a hundred yards away and Butch Brandies came running up. He said forget it, nobody�s going into 7, there�s creaking, there are noises coming out of there, so we just stopped. And probably about 10 minutes after that, Visconti, he was on West Street, and I guess he had another report of further damage either in some basements and things like that, so Visconti said nobody goes into 7, so that was the final thing and that was abandoned.
Firehouse: When you looked at the south side, how close were you to the base of that side?
Boyle: I was standing right next to the building, probably right next to it.
Firehouse: When you had fire on the 20 floors, was it in one window or many?
Boyle: There was a huge gaping hole and it was scattered throughout there. It was a huge hole. I would say it was probably about a third of it, right in the middle of it. And so after Visconti came down and said nobody goes in 7, we said all right, we�ll head back to the command post. We lost touch with him. I never saw him again that day.
Originally posted by Wildbob77
Here are links to WTC 7 fires. I searched google using the terms firefighter sccounts of 911 building 7.
Excerpt "1. We walked over by number Seven World Trade Center as it was burning and saw this 40-plus story building with fire on nearly all floors. –FDNY Lieutenant Robert LaRocca"
"2. ...Just when you thought it was over, you're walking by this building and you're hearing this building creak and fully involved in flames.
Barry Jennings was Deputy Director, Emergency Services Department, New York City Housing Authority. He was inside Tower 7 when the second plane had struck tower 2. He very clearly states he heard multiple explosions well before the collapse of Tower 7, and he barely made it out due to these exlosions.
Yes, this possibility was investigated carefully. NIST concluded that blast events inside the building did not occur and found no evidence supporting the existence of a blast event.
In addition, no blast sounds were heard on the audio tracks of video recordings during the collapse of WTC 7 or reported by witnesses. According to calculations by the investigation team, the smallest blast capable of failing the building’s critical column would have resulted in a sound level of 130 decibels (dB) to 140 dB at a distance of at least half a mile, if unobstructed by surrounding buildings. This sound level is consistent with a gunshot blast, standing next to a jet plane engine, and more than 10 times louder than being in front of the speakers at a rock concert.”
Still don’t believe there’s ANY evidence of BLAST SOUND?
How about radio transmissions and testimony from FDNY members themselves.