[lonestar]

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.

True, but if they can save 10 or 1, and you are the one would it not be worth all the time and planning?

Love your name. (What's that running down your leg?) LOL.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

As a former firefighter (albeit, not FDNY), I can honestly say that I think that the chances of successful helicopter rescues on 9/11 were VERY SMALL, and might actually have endangered more lives. Plus, I think it would have created havoc as hundreds that are trapped try to push to the roof. The thinking of the FDNY on this is right, get people to go lower or stay in place and wait as we put the fire out. Don't have people go higher, unless they need to because fire necessitates it.

"Helicopters couldn't have saved anyone from the top of the south tower, NYPD pilots say. That building's roof was completely obscured by a 100-foot layer of dense smoke blown from the north tower by wind from the northwest."

"...a rescue from the north tower would have been difficult but possible, Mr. Semendinger and other veteran helicopter-rescue pilots say."

[ipfreely]

True, but if they can save 10 or 1, and you are the one would it not be worth all the time and planning?

I would also consider it worth the time for the police to provide my wife and me with a discreet personal body guard and for the justice department to provide me with a lawyer. I would like to be the one to benefit from my own personal tax cut along with reimbursement from the government for each breath I take. But that would be selfish. I think it is a sign of government inefficiency that we even argue about such an ineffective form of rescue. I'm sure if they put as much thought into this as congress puts into their salaries we would have a very secure nation.

Nothing running down my leg thanks to Depends. : )

Are you an advocate of the Lonestar Cafe? I heard they have good ribs.