102 minutes that changed America - now on c4

[Iguana]

If anyone can show any evidence that firefighters entered the second tower after the first collapsed I'd very much like to see it.

You cannot enter buildings in that situation and, no matter how fucking clueless were the bosses, I cannot believe they were told to do so by management.

They were walking, they were at least a mile distant.

As soon as the south tower went down the order was given by the emergency services to get out of the north tower. Some evacuated slower than they could have because they were helping injured civilians, but there was no mass entry into the tower, they were getting out not going in. The 12 firemen who survived the north tower collapse in a stairwell had slowed to help a woman who was on crutches from an existing injury.

 

[Gingerman]

Got round to watching this last night,depressing to hear people wanting to 'bomb their country' and 'wipe them from the face of the earth',maybe understandable in the heat of the mo,did anyone else notice the guy in the mask covered in dust kicking out at another gentleman ? wonder was he taking out his anger on someone who looked Arabic? Watching the whole thing again even after 8yrs still packs a powerfull emotional punch for me anyway.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

As soon as the south tower went down the order was given by the emergency services to get out of the north tower. Some evacuated slower than they could have because they were helping injured civilians, but there was no mass entry into the tower, they were getting out not going in. The 12 firemen who survived the north tower collapse in a stairwell had slowed to help a woman who was on crutches from an existing injury.

There was a really interesting documentary a year or so ago about the firemen who survived the collapse of the north tower.

Partly because of all the "ifs" you get in a situation like that i.e. if they hadn't been slowed down by the woman, if they hadn't been in that stairwell etc.. but also how they dealt with all the contradictory feelings about surviving such a terrible event.

 

[London_Calling]

As soon as the south tower went down the order was given by the emergency services to get out of the north tower.

Exactly as it should be. Not saying the footage was misleading on that point but it was easy to infer something that wasn't the case.

 

[weltweit]

There was a really interesting documentary a year or so ago about the firemen who survived the collapse of the north tower.

Partly because of all the "ifs" you get in a situation like that i.e. if they hadn't been slowed down by the woman, if they hadn't been in that stairwell etc.. but also how they dealt with all the contradictory feelings about surviving such a terrible event.

Yes, I also saw that documentary.