Posted on 09/03/2006 5:19:29 PM PDT by Pyro7480
The image of featureless steel structures catastrophically crumbling into a fatal dust storm was indelibly imprinted on the minds of millions of people around the world. Yet the enormous plumes of smoke, the soaring balls of fire and the sheer scale of the buildings masked the human face of the tragedy. For the first time, through drama supported by interviews and archival footage, TV audiences will be invited to venture inside the towers to follow the stories of more than a dozen individuals whose daily routine is swept aside by events that changed the world forever.
Based on the testimonies of survivors, victims’ families, emergency workers and city officials, Inside the Twin Towers opens with a glimpse of the everyday world of work and office life. It is easy to relate to Melanie de Vere, the 30-year-old British publishing executive helping to host a conference in the North Tower, and also with Stanley Praimnath, a banker devoted to his religion and family. We meet Hong Zhu, the broker who was caught up in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Jan Demczur, the window cleaner who knows so many faces throughout the buildings.
In an instant, fate decrees who will have the opportunity to escape and who will not. Some have the option of being able to leave, but not all have the strength to do what is required to survive. On Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. and in the following 17 minutes, Melanie, Hong and Jan find that they are among the thousands of people suddenly confronted by confusion and uncertainty. While they search for answers, individuals such as construction manager Frank De Martini are fighting to rescue those trapped by tons of debris. Frank, supported by his colleagues Pablo and Mak, are pushing their way up into the wreckage of the dying building, rolling back the boundary between life and death.
Outside the North Tower, New York officials, supported by the Port Authority, are mobilizing the largest rescue operation in the city's history. Well over 1,000 emergency staff are being deployed, an organized evacuation has begun, and the critical decision that the fire cannot be fought has been made. Most of the North Tower’s elevators have stopped working and any firefighter attempting to reach the seat of the blaze will take more than an hour to climb up to the 91st floor. It is at this level that the three emergency stairwells have been severed by the direct force of the remnants of the aircraft. Rescuers will not be able to climb any farther – nor will anybody be able to descend from the higher floors. At least 1,300 people are trapped on the 19 floors above and immediately below the point of collision. Then the second tower is hit.
Stuck in elevators, confronted by dark and smoky exit routes, or hemmed in by burning wreckage, office workers in both towers were beyond the immediate help of the outside world. Individuals were forced to rely on their own resources in making the best of the options available to them. In buildings 110 stories tall, where fires burning at 1,300 degrees Centigrade were melting the steel floor supports, it was a perilous journey down to the ground. Not everybody would escape before the towers collapsed.
Didn't have to melt the steel for it to fail.
The steel in the floor trusses softened enough for them to begin to collapse.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html?page=4&c=y
#&%$ing terrorist scum. They all need to die. If that was his baby, then a daddy was lost.
She worked in the Towers, and left before 9/11.
wtc.nist has the facts and is an exhaustive report that doesn't deal in hyperbole and wishes.
I recommend it to everyone for reading and understanding the impact, the fuel factor, how much fuel burned outside the building, the path of the fires after the impact.
Had survivors guilt while watching the towers fall from my apartment balcony.
It's worth noting that besides the weakening of the steel at high temperatures, that the steel also expands significantly. This places huge undesigned-for stresses at the connections (like where beams tie into columns). You get a failure going on one beam, weight gets transferred to the adjacent beams, they fail, etc, and the whole thing comes down.
Everyone needs to be reminded often.
Religion of Peace, my @$$.
ML/NJ
His daughter Lisa worked at AON with him. She lived.
Cant imagine her pain.
So are you one of the believers in the conspiracy theories???
You have heard of weight, right? It wasn't just steel up there.
take your "controlled demolition" crap back to DU you scum...
those thump and thuds every minute are absolutely chilling.
Im getting angry just watching. And we have a DU troll on here to boot..
He's been on here since '99, so in the years since, he has drunk the Kool-Aid.
Those poor firefighters had to walk up carrying hundreds of pounds of gear.
They would have been exhausted by the time they got to the fire. Too tired to fight it.
Several years ago, I wrote to the NYC Fire Commissioner suggesting that the fire department pre-position fire fighting equipment every 10 or 15 floors in high-rise buildings.
They could then send "quick-response" teams that were'nt laden with heavy gear, up to the pre-positioned equipement in order to fight the fire.
It has been well documented how damage to the flimsily bolted floor supports weakened them enough to fail. insufficient fire protection that had been just sprayed on. nothing had to melt since steel loses most of its strength well before that temperature.
Before you click this link, know that you will witness the death of Kevin Cosgrove and 3 others in real time.
The truth about 9/11 is that 3,000 Americans died, many begging for their lives, in more fear than anybody should ever have to live through, and they died very slow, horrible deaths.
http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1153567378/Chilling_911_Call_From_the_World_Trade_Center
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