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- JOE TORRILLO
“When I was there, believe it or not, other than the fire and the smoke, it was almost very desolated around the perimeter of the World Trade Center…it was almost like complete silence.”
As Torrillo ran toward Ground Zero, his mind was filled with thoughts about the dangers ahead. But rather than worrying about his own safety, he was thinking about how save others.
“As [I was] running toward the North Tower, hoping to get up to the upper levels, one of things [I was] saying to myself [was] that these buildings [were] going to collapse and that [I had] to let a lot of people know about it.”
Of course, there were many individuals who didn’t believe that such a prospect was possible. Sure, the Towers had been attacked, but was it truly possible for the massive structures to come down?
“I started [telling people] and [they] started looking at me crosseyed wondering ‘How the hell are two buildings going to collapse?,’” he explains.
Torrillo had extra insight, though, having studied structural engineering during his college years. One of his professors had worked on the World Trade Center. This educator, who managed the placement of concrete during the Towers’ construction, brought Torrillo and his classmates to the buildings to analyze them in detail.
It was during this time — years before the horrific terror attack — that the brave firefighter says he learned that the Towers, though mighty in terms of their size, were flimsier than some of Manhattan’s other skyscrapers.
“It was very obvious to me that those buildings were going to collapse…I was positive,” he says. “My biggest fear was that we were going to lose a lot of people that day.”
Torrillo told everyone, even other emergency workers who were trying to setup a triage, that they needed to get out. Again, he was met with resistance.
“They asked, ‘Who are you? We don’t work for you.’ They were very hesitant. But I was adament about getting them out.”
Luckily, they inevitably listened. Just as the last crew drove four or five blocks away he says he heard “a loud boom.” He was outside, directly below the buildings.
“I looked up, and the building was starting to collapse. And I said to myself, ‘You idiot — you‘re the one who said this building’s going to collapse and you put yourself right underneath it!’”
Yeah I guess the information is so false that you don't even need to debunk it! :shk:
I see you're still posting 911 threads with false info.
You left out a big one: the 47 story skyscraper that wasn't hit by an airplane.
Why not ask this: of all the buildings built like the Twin Towers, in the whole world, how many of them were hit by jets? What percentage of those hit by jets then collapsed? The answer is that there were only ever two buildings built like the twin towers. Both were hit by jets and 100% of then collapsed.
An accurate scientific investigation is more important than a popularity contest. How about you call up an engineer and ask him to show us how this information is inaccurate? Just type in Engineer into switchboard, there's what, a 99.99% chance that he'll be on your side?
Why not then ask the 99.99% of Engineers that DID NOT SIGN the petition why they didn't. Are they not capable, of using the scientific method?
And your complete lack of addressing even a single thing from the 7 pages of evidence really adds credibility to your arguments.
This thread is just more dishonesty from the Truther camp.
Originally posted by sprtpilot
Or, the things were just completely shoddily built. Corners cut, inferior steel and concrete used, proper testing not conducted during construction. Maybe the buildings as designed could withstand impacts with planes but a construction project of this magnitude, in everyone-on-the-take New York resulted in these house of cards.
Originally posted by fleabit
You can't accurately compare any previous building fires or collapses with the Twin Towers. They were not the same size, structure, nor did they have jumbo jets fly into them. You can't compare airplane crashes into buildings and compare it to a jet flying into a hardened stucture as it did with the Pentagon.
Unique circumstances for those crashes on 9/11 are completely ignored for some reason.
Originally posted by fleabit
You can't accurately compare any previous building fires or collapses with the Twin Towers. They were not the same size, structure, nor did they have jumbo jets fly into them. You can't compare airplane crashes into buildings and compare it to a jet flying into a hardened stucture as it did with the Pentagon.
Unique circumstances for those crashes on 9/11 are completely ignored for some reason.
Originally posted by Merlin Lawndart
I know NIST even reported building 7 came down at free fall speed for the first 8 stories. That means the building went from motionless to free fall instantly. For that to happen, the bottom 8 floors would have had to been removed instantly. No scenario of office fires is capable of producing that result, it is impossible.