Title: LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU SEE FIRE - the flaming inferno Source:
[None] URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT-po-tmJRc Published:Mar 5, 2010 Author:Staff Post Date:2010-03-05 20:39:37 by Horse Keywords:None Views:326 Comments:8
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VideoL Listen to the final moments of the daring rescue efforts of the New York City Fire Department operating in the South Tower of the World Trade Center moments before it suddenly exploded into oblivion. This is the biggest conflict of evidence of all: Either there were emergency teams operating in the building or there was a tremendous raging inferno. The two are mutually exclusive possibilities.
It is generally believed that the firemen were still in the stairwells, heading for the highest floors, when the building collapsed. The stairwells were smoky but apparently without flames. One of the pathetic facts is that the firemen were hampered because carrying hundreds of pounds of fire hose -- but the jolt of the planes' impact had severed the water mains (the FDNY had to arrange to have fireboats at the harbor a few blocks away) so even if the firemen had made it to their destination floors the hoses would have been useless.
There was also a serious problem with the walkie-talkies used by the FDNY - apparently in this situation there were serious communications problems. I would have expected that after the North Tower collapsed, the teams in the South Tower would have been ordered back down. It seems, however, that transmissions back and forth were seriously disrupted so that different teams could not coordinate their activities.
They mentioned using house lines to fight the fires. They never mentioned house lines not working, nor did they mention low water pressure. Obviously water was not a problem.