Ep. 1 - Why weren’t more people rescued from the Twin Towers?

[@pinkabuki]

I can't believe they told people to sit tight. I would be getting out there so fast.

[@kurtwetzel154]

I heard survivors say if the message said if you choose to leave you may with caution or something similar.

[@RuffRyder14]

@@kurtwetzel154it only said that like 2 minutes before the crash. They were sending people back up before

[@edithroberts8959]

Fewer would have died in 2 World Trade if the Port authority had not told the employees of that tower to go back up to their offices. They were also telling people on the intercom that building 2 was safe and the situation was under control. Very sad.

[@baukebaljeu8636]

Standard procedure after the '93 bombing. Very unfortunate when the textbook on terrorist attacks suddenly turns out to be outdated.

[@Covert_Smalls]

This video is more a timeline of the NYC attacks and collapse. The title doesn’t reflect the point of the video

[@pinlight97]

The WTC component of 9/11 is endlessly fascinating to me, in part as I was due to visit them with my mother at some point that September. I had never been and she had just come back from her first visit there-a work trip that she brought my dad along on. They stayed at the Marriott, took a photo with the towers behind them at the top of the Empire State, and had enough time to go to the underground mall too. Her panicked voicemail to me that morning did make me roll my eyes. I was already frustrated from going around my neighbourhood trying to find my partner’s lost keys. I had just left a job I loved downtown here due to a personal tragedy earlier that year. And, here she was telling me that the towers were completely on fire. Sure, mom (she told me the Golden Gate Bridge had collapsed in the late-80s earthquake in Cali too). Here we had the same blue sky and a very tall tower, with flights being redirected and now looping right over my head to land at our airport. Eventually I’d had it with CNN because nothing was left to talk about so they switched to the economy, so I hit up a pub. Backfired as it was still on all the TVs-not entirely sober I called my former boss and just went off (thankfully a very understanding person). It’s interesting to be on this side of the border and see the shifts over time, to some degree here but far more intensely in the U.S. We don’t have that fear of large public spaces, and we don’t have that same “look over my shoulder, carry protection, know the exits…” that exists there. I have, however, obsessed over 9/11 and the WTC piece in particular-the first responders, the air traffic controllers, the FDNY dispatchers keeping chaos as in-check as possible, the stories from the Marriott, the missteps of the American government both and the fact that the buildings were constructed by the Port Authority and cut safety corners as a result (only some of which were remedied after ‘93). I’m officially rambling but I’m enjoying this podcast series. I’m going to make a point of checking out your book; heard of it but not had a chance to lay hands on a copy.

[@thenavylady4630]

Very well done. Thank you

[@jennyfurr]

Excellent episode!

[@dks13827]

Those cockpits were full of blood and dead pilots.

[@johnp139]

So why was the saying “it’s not IF, it’s WHEN“????

[@Spamcloud]

The first responders did very well considering that they had roughly an hour to process and respond to the worst terrorist attack in human history.

[@colemarie9262]

Holy shit is that really a TWELVE minute intro?!?

[@sarahgreenslade1219]

Weren't they told stay put an not leave I've seen Interviews was only 7 years old

[@dks13827]

19 Saudis.

[@ucfqb]

19 Saudis what?

[@johnp139]

So WHY didn’t the firefighters WAIT until EVERYONE EVACUATED before IMPENDING the flow of evacuees?!?

[@539strt]

I think you are projecting when you say people’s friends and family are constantly warning them of the latest health, climate change and terrorist threats. I doubt many people worry at all about 2 of three of those things.

[@OdsnFilms]

Questions: Why was the national guard not contacted immediately in terms of rescue?? Since there were numerous hostage plane attacks why was the Air Force not immediately called? 🧐

[@BFaluup]

I can’t believe to this day there are still no protocols on evacuating skyscrapers…it should be mandatory to at least have a rope on each floor the is long enough to hit ground…it may be crass but it’s better than nothing..some people will fall off but some will make it

[@chrismorrison8551]

I would rather have a parachute. I would have to take lessons, of course.

[@BFaluup]

@@chrismorrison8551 something…anything.. I can’t believe no one has ever mandated something for skyscrapers other than the stairwell

[@hypothebai4634]

@@BFaluup How about every office chair is a rocket powered ejection seat?

[@jaggg.3821]

9/11 taught me never work in Tall Building's as high The World Trade Center stood because if there's a problem, First, Responder's might not be able too get Me.

[@BFaluup]

@@hypothebai4634 lol..

[@ulysses1904]

I made it to about 12 minutes, which could have been summarized in 3 minutes. This guy's way of speaking is grating.

[@chrismorrison8551]

I disagree. His voice is as perfect as his delivery of the content.

[@Augfordpdoggie]

Flight 11 was not scheduled to fly that day, neither was flight 77. The official story is BS

[@okm58]

everyone point and laugh at this person

[@jaggg.3821]

Ruby Ridge (that blew up in The FBI Face), Waco, Texas Divinity compound April 19, 1993, Oklahoma City, Bombing was in retaliation for what occurred at Waco. 1997 2 Arkansas teenage Boy's pull fire alarm and shoot their own classmates and one Ex-girlfriend that was shocking then it seemed school/after School there was a shooting that occurred. Jasper, Texas The horrific Murder of James Byrd. Jr 1998 that jolted Black America it was like looking at a 40 year version of Emmett Till only No Photos provided. and after a string of school shooting's on April 20, 1999 Columbine. I recall feeling small and insignificant. I felt The World was changing and not necessarily For the better. People were getting angrier and angrier. Upon The Year in 2000 one had great concern for Y2K I had grave concern 2000 would be a year of school shooting's and hopefully Al Gore would be able too come up with some sort of emergency response too combat the mass School Shooting's. Because I believed that it was going too be a year of school shooting's. I did not count on The September attack's on 9/11 taking place. That's nothing until I watched a old CBS Morning's with Bryant Gumbel on 9/ 11 I forgot about the tragic case of Andra Yates and Those 5 children drowned in the bath tub.