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Thank you for posting. I often think of those people and what circumstances would have compelled them to take such action.

I was also surpised to see how spectacular the view was and can now understand why it was such a tourist attraction. Though I usually avoid cities, crowds and tall buildings, I can understand why my husband tried so often to take me to NY (I have never been), and why he was so impressed with the city.

It must have been a wonderful place to spend a day, touring, shopping and dining.

We watced the special on the contruction of the WTC. It was facinating. But it reminded me of the Titanic. Just as the Titanic had too few lifeboats, the narrow stairwells seem to me not to have been large enough to handle a mass evacuation of the building. I thought that was poor planning and hope in the future that issue is addressed.

[JayNorth]

the narrow stairwells seem to me not to have been large enough to handle a mass evacuation of the building. I thought that was poor planning and hope in the future that issue is addressed.

Since Sept 11 I keep wondering why they don't have a bigger fire sprinkler system that could basically soak the affected floors with tons of water. Obviously you would have to engineer floor drains to carry all the water into the sewage system. All that water would cool off the structural steel. I remember when the First Interstate building in Los Angeles had a major fire and the structural steel was the big worry then, too. (That one didn't fail.)

There's bound to be an FR engineer that can tell me my idea wouldn't work. Did the WTC have any fire sprinklers on the upper floors?