[SUSSA]

You’re right that we’ll never know how many died because of those radios. We do know some people would have been saved though.

[P-40]

But more than the radios it was the lack of coordination between two distinct services (police and fire) that had not trained together as recommended after the 1993 attacks. This training was *in part* what made the rescue at the Pentagon go so well. Even now, if this sort of inter-departmental training has not occurred, no radio on earth is going to do them any good.

Some of the more esoteric stuff that may have saved lives, like the callers that reported pictures were starting to swing away from the walls or the helicopter pilot that said a part of the building's wall was going to fall away would have been crucial knowledge...but how could you communicate such things in real time even if you understood the significance?