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To: hoosierham
Immediately after the first plane hit and large fire started,the building evacuation should have begun.

You mean before anyone really knew the extent of the problem? And with debris raining down on people who ventured outside? The better choice was to wait and find out what was going on first...but who knew another craft was about to hit...or that the emergency center was about to be proven as a stupid location choice.

The staff could have done all sorts of things. Maybe they did a lot, maybe they did nothing. But once the situation became what it was, none of that mattered any more. Wishing they had done something earlier was not going to change anything.
81 posted on 06/21/2007 6:47:04 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40
I have read that people started to spontaneously evacuate and were told to return to their work.

The firemen and insurance companies spend millions every year on fire safety campaigns that emphasize "GET OUT FIRST" and call the fire department from the neighbor's house .Industrial practice is to leave the fire ,sound the alarm,and only if you have training and equipment THEN fight the fire.

The people who should have been leaving as soon as a large fire/incident occured almost certainly would have reached safety;not sure if there was any way down for those on the floors above the impact site.

87 posted on 06/21/2007 7:05:16 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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