[The Raven]

It all happened so fast. Hopefully a "lesson learned" that we will never need.

[BunnySlippers]

Bump

[Ed_in_NJ]

bttt

[error99]

Wasn't it reported on 9/11 that some people made phone calls from the roof?
This article seems to say that no one actually made it to the roof...

[Wm Bach]

Wow! Slapped around by synchonicity again. I was just pondering the lack of any helo rescues from the 9-11 attack in the restless wee hours of this morning - Why no one was saved from the roof.

Thanks for posting the answer.

[MaxwellWolf]

Port Authority's Twin Towers had the status of state government property and therefore were legally exempt from the fire code Why isn't govt subject to the same fire code regulations as a private organization?

[ipfreely]

Hindsight is always 20/20 or most of the time...

The author of this article seems to be suffering from 20/400 hindsight. You can't save 10,000 or 1,000 for that matter with a helicopter from a rooftop. It's probably best to not waste already wasted government time with less effective ideas.

[KirklandJunction]

Helis saved a lot of people off the top of the burning hotel in Las Vegas decades ago.

[jimtorr]

Mr. Antenen of the police department says he doesn't see a need to review the city's policy on rooftop rescues.
Mr. Gribbon says the fire department "will probably look at a lot of the things we do." But such a review won't necessarily lead to changes that would encourage rooftop rescues, he says.

A number of large cities, including Los Angeles as noted in the article, plans for rooftop rescues from tall buildings. They also plan for large fires engulfing several floors at once. Why does the City of New York allow traditional rivalries between the Police and Fire Departments to endanger public safety? Will this be allowed to continue?

On Sept. 11, falling debris knocked out the 22nd-floor security center's equipment just after the plane hit...

Incredible. What kind of planning numbskull puts a "security" center anywhere but in the deepest interior of a building?

[janee]

Security guards ON TOP of the WTC, with anti-aircraft missile capability, would have saved lives. The 1993 bombing attack was a warning.

Makes sense to have been watching the skies (several minor attacks have been made by homeland crazies with small planes). Posting armed security at all the ground-floor entrances of banks, government buildings etc. is a given. No armed security atop the Pentagon? All this military power and yet so vulnerable.

God bless us and especially those we trust.

[McGavin999]

I'm sorry, but it would have been a disaster. Anyone who remembers watching the people trying to escape Vietnam and what happened there would know that you wouldn't have been able to do it. There were too many people and the copters would have been pulled down. People would not have waited patiently in line, and those copters weren't transport copters either.

This second guessing just makes people feel guilty. I guess this is a normal part of grieving, why didn't we do this, or if only we'd done that. Maybe we could have saved a dozen or so, or maybe we'd be mourning the deaths of a couple of rescue pilot too.