[SlickWillard]

I agree that he could be a swindler. It's difficult to get any accurate information in times of panic. However, the assertion about the self-sealing floors agrees with the interviews I saw in which evacuees said the fire doors were locked.

[SlickWillard]

From MSNBC:

Sept. 11 — By afternoon, it was quiet. And that may have been the most ominous sign of all. Outside the NYU hospital in downtown New York—just four or five blocks from the site of the devastated World Trade Center—staff waited for the injured to arrive. For the most part, they didn’t. “There’s tons of ambulances, tons of personnel, and almost no patients,” said Michele Okamoto, a registered nurse handing out face masks as protection from the pervasive dust.