Have you actually done
any research on this aside from conspiracaloon sites?
40. Captain Michael Currid, the president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, said that some time after the
collapse of the Twin Towers, “Someone from the city's Office of Emergency Management” told him that building 7
was “basically a lost cause and we should not lose anyone else trying to save it," after which the firefighters in the
building were told to get out (Murphy, Dean E., 2002. September 11: An Oral History. New York: Doubleday pp.
175-76)
41. While we were searching the subbasements (of building 6) they decided that Seven World Trade Center which was across the street was going to collapse, so they called us out. We were so far down we couldn’t hear them, but we came out after we searched the subbasements. Actually we came out on the Seven World Trade Center parkway street
when came out they were calling us on the radio to tell us to get out. I then reported that the search was negative and
then they wouldn’t let anybody near the site pretty much because Seven World Trade Center was going to come down.
–Battalion Chief Frank Congiusta
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110425.PDF
42. We were ordered down from the tower ladder because of a possible collapse at Tower 7.
–Firefighter Pete Castellano
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110398.PDF
43. The reason we were given for why we were moving was that 7 World Trade Center was going to collapse or was at risk of collapsing.
–Paramedic Joseph Cahill
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110085.PDF
44. The rest of the day we were unloading trucks we were just doing whatever little things we could do, but they were
54 waiting for 7 World Trade Center to fall.
–Firefighter Timothy Burke
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110488.PDF
45. "We were asked to go out of that area due to a risk of collapse in 7 WTC. "
–PAPD P.O. Thomas Johnson
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports02.pdf page 10.
46. ..And that was one of the directions from the command post, to make sure we clear the collapse zone from 7 and this is a 600-foot-tall building, so we had to clear a 600-foot radius from that building. –Battalion Chief John Norman
http://www.firehouse.com/terrorist/9...gz/norman.html
47. "The three of us along with 2 firemen searched that area until we were told to leave due to 7 possibly collapsing."
–PAPD P.O. Thomas Hering
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports02.pdf p.13.
48. All later attempts to return to the WTC were stopped by the pending, and eventual collapse of Building 7 and the uncontrolled fires. –PAPD P.O. Lawrence Guarneri
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf
page 34
49. A while later, an NYFD supervisor approached and ordered the rescuers away from the area because 7 WTC was in danger of collapse also. –M. DeFilippis, PAPD P.O.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page 49
50. At about 1300 hrs between repeating officers fruitless efforts to locate fellow officers and the warning of building number Seven's possible collapse I started to walk uptown on West Street in hope of locating the PAPD Command Center.
–Christopher Bergmann, PAPD P.O.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page 52
51. An FDNY supervisor deemed the area we were in unsafe, and assisted people out of the immediate area.
–M. McAdams, PAPD P.O.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page 72
52. Reports of gas main leaks, bombs, small arms fire and buildings about to collapse forced us to again relocate further north on West Street
. –Daniel A. Carbonaro, PAPD Lieutenant
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page 76
[The next three quotes are similar...from written reports by officers in the same command]
53. Due to fire and instability of buildings at the WTC site we were directed to the MCC gym.
– PAPD P.O. Thomas Mancini,
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page 86
54. Due to fire and instability at the WTC site we were redirected to the MCC gym.
–PAPD P.O. Quirk
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page 88
55. Due to the fire and instability of the buildings at the WTC site we were directed to the MCC gym.
–PAPD P.O. Christensen
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page 89
56. Several attempts were made to assist the trapped, but we were kept out due to the uncontrolled fires and other
building collapsing around us. –PAPD P.O. Patrick Versage
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...ereports03.pdf page 95
57. Returned to the site on 2-3 occasions...in an effort to help with evacuation but was stopped due to the imminent
collapse of 7 WTC. –PAPD LT. William Oorbeek
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports03.pdf page
97
58. Unfortunately we could not do much more because of fear that other buildings surrounding the Trade Center were
going to come down.
–PAPD P.O. John McClain
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports04.pdf page 33
59. For the remainder of the day , we made trips to the scene to assist in the search. Due to confusion and the threat
damaged buildings falling we were forced to retreat each time. We were on West & Vesey when # 7 collapsed. –
PAPD Sgt. Stone
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-...-reports04.pdf page 60
60. So we were doing searches, stretching lines, we were doing everything that we could possibly do. We were kind of overwhelmed at the task at hand. Like I said we operated for about three and half hours and then we went to takebreather, and as we moved out of the area we weren’t permitted back in the area by that time by a number of Chiefs
that were in charge.
–FDNY Lieutenant Brendan Whelan
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110360.PDF
61. Once they got us back together and organized somewhat, they sent us back down to Vesey, where we stood and waited for Seven World Trade Center to come down.
–Firefighter Frank Sweeney
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110113.PDF
62. But they weren’t really getting [sic] guys get too deep into it because of the possible pending collapse of SevenWorld Trade. ...We were staged there a good part of the afternoon until Seven finally did collapse.
–Firefighter David Moriarty
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110228.PDF
63. …they told us to evacuate the area for tower number Seven, building Seven, when they knew that was coming down…
–Firefighter Dominick Muschello
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110249.PDF
64. …Captain Verraile from 24 Engine said, “Hey, let’s just back everything off here because this building is coming down.”
–Firefighter Howie Scott
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110365.PDF
65. Then they said that the 47 story hotel building—I think it’s number Seven—was about to come down. ...We were
around for the rest of the afternoon. At about 5:30 that did come down.
–Firefighter Edward Mecner
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110391.PDF
66. They were saying building Seven was going to collapse, so we regrouped and went back to our rig. We waited for building Seven to come down.
–Firefighter James Wallace
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...IC/9110409.PDF
67. At 5:20, No. 7 finally falls. They've been waiting for it to go so they can move the firemen and search-and-rescue teams in. With the thunderous collapse, firemen bolt up from where they've been camped, on the south side of the Embassy Suites. Some have been sitting on plush hotel furniture carted into the street, eating food from the Mexican restaurant next door. There's a stampede over pickaxes and oxygen tanks. They head out toward the crushed fire trucks. "They're looking for their brothers," says an ambulance driver.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/sept11...183/index.html
Waiting for 7 to Fall