It did take SWAT an hour, but the firing had stopped. Allowing the SWAT team to cautiously take the position.
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I understand the SWAT team had to climb the stairs to that floor because the elevators had been shut down per the request of the LV police Dept. It would take some time to cautiously go up that many floors.
32 flights of stairs? yep.
uh, why not repel from helo down to roof and run DOWN the stairs? It would take me about 2 hours to walk up those stairs. Do I watch too many movies?
I remember when the Towers were hit on 9/11 they were talking about the firefighters climbing the stairs and said that they would be climbing at the rate of about one floor per minute.
If the guy was on the 32nd floor, it would take them a half an hour to climb those stairs, hauling up their gear with them.