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To: newwahoo
I would also like to see some "analysis" of the idiot port authority's failure to call for immediate evacuation of the south tower; and the chasing of would-be evacuees back up to their top-floor offices. None of those deaths in the opt floors of the South tower was necessary.

Even if you think it was, at the time, a prudent course to keep people out of the street away from rescue operations and falling debris (and jumpers), it wasn't wise to tell folks to go back to their top-floor desks. If the situation were to change or worsen, it was in any case better for occupants of the south Towers to go to lower floors. At minimum they should have gatherered top floor employees on the lower levels, with plans to make a secure path for them to exit the building.

19 posted on 12/19/2001 6:13:47 AM PST by SarahW
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To: SarahW
There were 15 minutes between crashes. If only the FAA had been able to let the Port Authority know that there were still hijacked planes out there I'm sure they would have evacuated faster. Everything just happenned so fast that morning. I think they thought that the first hit was all that was going to happen. At any rate, there was no reason to tell people to go back to work. If they felt like leaving then they shouldn't have been hassled in any way. I'm not sure if the PA even knew if the first hit was a plane or a bomb during those 15 minutes.
20 posted on 12/19/2001 6:33:04 AM PST by newwahoo
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