[chicagolady]

I am a 911 operator. If an explosion or disaster were to happen, I am to tell folks that I cannot tell them weather to go out or stay in. My directions are to tell them to follow their companies disaster plan. For a bulding that size , they had to have had SOMETHING in place. Was it discussed with the employees when they were hired?
Probably not! Because it will never happen in America.
Still after 911 Companies and people still do not want to wake up.

[chicagolady]

A Chicagoland, double check your business diaster plan BUMP!

[feedback doctor]

I am a 911 operator.

Thank you for doing a tough job that most of us could not do! I pray you never have to deal with a situation like 9-11 in your job.

[Moose4]

Some companies did have a disaster plan. Morgan Stanley's head of security, Rick Rescorla--a veteran of the 1965 Ia Drang Valley battle immortalized in "We Were Soldiers"--had a plan in place since the 1993 WTC bombing. When the first tower got hit, Rescorla didn't wait, he executed the plan immediately, and the Morgan Stanley employees knew what to do and did it. And as a result, Morgan Stanley got a lot of their people out safely. But, sadly, not Rescorla himself.

In the end I'm not sure how much difference having a plan or not would've made, though. If you didn't evacuate the second tower when the first one got hit, then it all came down to where you were, in either tower. Below the impact points, you almost certainly made it out OK. Above the impact points, you didn't. Simple.

The Port Authority people, I guess, didn't want people evacuating the second tower to keep congestion down so people in the first tower could get out? Or maybe so they wouldn't get hit by falling debris? Who knows.

By the way, thanks for your service as a 911 operator. You're made of tough stuff to do that job and do it well!

}:-)4