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Survival of Firemen in North Tower Collapse Corroborates Use of

Demolition Charges

 

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Survival of Firemen in North Tower Collapse Corroborates Use of

Demolition Charges

 

Mighty upward rush of wind in staircase supports demolition

model for tower collapse. Ground-level staircase preservation argues

against pancake model, according to laws of physics.

by Sterling D. Allan

 

 

MANHATTAN, NY, USA -- A dozen firemen, a civilian, and a

police officer, who were on Stairway B between floors 1 and 6,

survived the collapse of the 110-floor north World Trade Center tower

on September 11, 2001.

 

Their story is documented in the book Report from Ground Zero:

The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center by Dennis

Smith, which contains testimonies of several of the survivors from

this pocket of life in a tower that plummeted to destruction.

 

The twisted stairway ended up near the top of the rubble

from the thousand feet of building above them, and the fourteen

survivors from that pocket were able to make their way out through a

tangled opening in the heap. It was because they had stopped to help

a civilian, Josephine, who was having a hard time getting down the

stairs, that several firemen were in that section of the stairway.

 

While the story of survival is gripping on a human level, their

account is also valuable from the point of view of a crime-scene

reconstruction, inasmuch these are first-hand witness accounts from

within the building at the time of the collapse.

 

The particular point of interest in this case is the report

of a very strong wind going through the stairwell. Though there are a

few contradictions among the individuals' accounts, a careful review

of their statements explains these differences and creates a cohesive

conclusion: a powerful wind was going up the stairs as the building

was collapsing down.

 

This would seem to refute the official pancake theory of collapse

in which one floor after another fails as the mass from above comes

down. That would have created a downward wind due to the air being

expulsed as the floors pancaked together, creating a piston-like effect.

However, the survivors in Stairway B did not experience a downward

wind. They experienced a very strong upward wind.

Witness Accounts

 

In Dennis Smith's book, the first account from this group of

survivors is the most compelling. Lieutenant Mickey Croft of Engine

Company Sixteen was somewhere around the second floor in Stairway B

when the building began to collapse.

 

He described the wind as being " fierce " and that it almost

lifted his body. He notes that he had to hold on to his helmet so it

wouldn't blow off. As an instructor to new fireman, he routinely

drilled into them the importance of snapping their helmets in place,

and yet here he was, without his helmet snapped on, so that he was

having to hold it by hand to keep it on. That particular comment lends

high credibility to him as a witness. It involves being truthful

enough to admit to having broken his own rules. And the wind was

strong enough to demand his full attention and action. A downward wind

would not have caused this risk of helmet loss, nor coaxed him to

reveal his non-compliance with safety rules.

 

Jim McLean from Engine 39 was between the 1st and 2nd floors

when the building began to fall. He also described a " rush of air

going up " .

 

Officer Dave Lim of the Port Authority's Police K-9 unit said

that when building began to collapse, he was on the 4th floor, where

he had stopped to help Josephine. He used the _expression " huge

windstorm " but the report of his experience in this book does not

mention a direction of up or down.

 

Captain Jay Jones of Ladder 6 had broken into the 4th floor to

try to find a chair on which to carry Josephine, when the building

began to collapse. He said he was about six to seven feet from the

staircase and that he ran to the stair door. He described the wind as

" a gust of strong wind coming down the stairs. " His direction of

" down " contradicts that given by Mickey Croft and Jim McLean. The

building took just over ten seconds to collapse to the ground, and it

would have taken him one or two of those seconds to interpret from

sound and vibration clues and register the level of danger, and then

two or three additional seconds to get to the door and into the

stairwell. So his account of the wind direction in the stairs may

either be in error or represent a shift or a later stage of the collapse.

 

Thus it may not undermine the two accounts of people who were already

in the stairwells and who felt the wind from the beginning of the

collapse event as an upward force.

 

An upward wind would be consistent with the demolition model of

collapse, in which demolition charges are pre-positioned on support

structures in the building's interior. Their triggering and explosive

reaction would tend to consume oxygen within the structure, sucking

more air inward from the stairwells, while forcibly ejecting solid

matter outward.

 

Survival from ground floors contradicts pancake model

 

According to Wikipedia, only 20 individuals survived the

towers' collapse. In addition to the fourteen mentioned above, four

were in the underground mall. The remaining two were also in the

North Tower's Stairway B, on the 13th floor.

 

Pasquale Buzzelli, a structural engineer at the Port Authority,

and Genelle Guzman McMillan, a secretary at the Port Authority, were

together in Stairway B on the 13th floor of the North Tower when it

collapsed. After losing consciousness, Buzzelli awoke on the surface,

on top of a pile of rubble, and was carried away with minor injuries.

McMillan survived in an air pocket for 27 hours before she was rescued.

 

She is famous for being the last person pulled alive from the rubble.

 

The pancake model of collapse would have an increasing mass of

kinetically charged objects piling down, burying everything beneath

it, arguing against any survival from any lower floors, let alone

objects from the lower floors emerging at or near the top of the heap.

However, this observed fact is consistent with the demolition model in

which the upper floors are reduced to powder from the demolition

charges, and the falling debris, while substantial, could spare a

stairwell below, falling around it, rather than crushing it.

 

Each tower had three stairways labeled A, B and C. On most

floors, the stairways were about 30 feet apart in the core with the

plumbing, elevators and other infrastructure. Stairway B of the North

tower was the only one to yield survivors. One possible explanation

for these survivors, in the demolition model, is that explosives that

were placed in the vicinity of this stairwell section failed to go off.

 

Other Evidences

 

These are not the only evidences for demolition, but are

submitted as additional evidences in an already lengthy list of

evidences that point to demolition from pre-positioned explosives,

which point to this having been an inside job being covered up by the

present administration.

 

Additional evidences are presented amply elsewhere. In brief, a

summary is as follows:

 

The engineers who designed the building designed it to

withstand impact by planes and fire.

 

Building 7, which was not structurally damaged by aircraft, came down

in a manner that matches the signature demolition model, complete with

triggering squibs (outward explosions of support structures preceding

the falling mass), and falling into its footprint. Slow motion video

footage highlights these features.

 

Towers 1 and 2 also fell in a manner consistent with

demolition, and had numerous visible squibs preceding the falling

mass. Bear in mind that a " tidy " and " safe " fall would not

necessarily be the objective of individuals pulling off such a thing.

 

Rate of speed of the fall is near that of free-fall, which

contradicts the pancake model in which a delay must be expected due to

conservation of momentum – one of the foundational Laws of Physics.

 

The fine powder into which the building was converted during

the collapse is consistent with the demolition model and its

associated explosives. There would have been some pulverization in

the pancake model, but not to the extent seen in this case.

Molten iron in the wreckage, weeks after the collapse, is consistent

with military-grade demolition charges, which chemicals continue to

react with the metal long after the initial implosion event.

Numerous eyewitnesses described hearing explosions not associated with

the planes hitting the buildings.

 

The wreckage from the towers was quickly shipped off for

scrap, contrary to laws governing removal of items from a crime scene.

 

WTC buildings 1,2 and 7 had undergone unannounced security

evacuations in the days prior to Sept. 11. A concurrent power outage

disabled security cameras. Explosives-sniffing dogs were called off

as part of that evacuation procedure. Martin Bush, brother to the

President, was involved with the security company involved in this

process.

 

It would take 10 men ten trips to place the necessary

explosives to bring the towers down by demolition.

 

The 911 Commission report says that there were no central

support columns, which is a lie. The WTC had the most robust central

support columns in the world at the time it was built, and was

designed to be centrally supported.

 

RESOURCES:

http://st911.org - Scholars for 911 Truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories - includes

multiple links to additional resources and documentation.

 

See also

Other Reports by Sterling D. Allan

911 and 666 - prophetic insight on the fateful day and its

repercussions.

911 Conspiracy - index of resources

Page composed by Sterling D. Allan Mar. 29, 2006

Last updated March 30, 2006