Reply #47: Simple, he was not in the worst area [View All]

[Snivi Yllom]

Buildings and office spaces are designed to restrict the spread on fire. Now granted after a passenger airliner smashes into the building, things will be disturbed and in general chaos is created.

The size of the buildings was staggering, 200' on one side. It's quite likely he was in an area not subjected to intense fire. In fact, in the South tower where this fire fighter was, the plane impact was not centered on the building and in fact missed the central core where these sky lobbies were located. The worst of the impact was to the east of the sky lobby core on 78. There was lots of damage done to this lobby area but if he had in fact reported on the area to the East of him, he might have reported a huge swath of destruction and fire.

In the transcript, they report going up the South tower in Stairwell "Adam" or 'A' which was in the NW corner of the building opposite the impact area.