[P-40]

The group’s complaints center on the faulty radios used by the fire department that day and what they say was a lack of coordination at Ground Zero.

To varying degrees the radios worked well for a time, but less so after the first tower fell. The problem was more a lack of protocol from what I understand. You can't have everyone talking at once on the same channel. Throw in trying to talk with the police at the same time and it only gets worse. This was the problem with the 1993 WTC attack...and was the problem with the 2001 attack...just with more death.

[SUSSA]

We’ll see as this gets more coverage. From what I understand there were firefighters in the first tower when it fell who never got the word to get out because of trouble with their radios. But, like Kerry’s war record, it will take some time for everything to get out.

It’ll be fun to watch.

[Smokin' Joe]

You can't have everyone talking at once on the same channel.

Even po-dunk VFDs have more than one 'channel'. NYC should have a wad of them, and emergency communications coordination.

It didn't because the emergency center was in a building in the same complex as the targeted towers.

Still, I would expect one or more mobile commo vans (command centers) which could have handled a localized crisis in a city that size.

It really should have been evident that it was only a question of 'when', not 'if' there would be a problem with that many people in such a small area in a city which is, by virtue of its size (if nothing else), a high profile target.

And although it is not possible for anyone to anticipate every possibility, the WTC had already been the target of one bombing.