Témoignage de Richard Banaciski
Témoignage de Frank CruthersRichard Banaciski a écrit :They moved us from one spot, they moved us on to Vesey again. Because then they were worried about -- we actually searched the Verizon building, because there was reports of fires in there. Basically our whole house searched that building.
They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it, coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up. Looking over the smaller buildings. I just remember it was tremendous, tremendous fires going on.
Finally they pulled us out. They said all right, get out of that building because that 7, they were really worried about. They pulled us out of there and then they regrouped everybody on Vesey Street, between the water and West Street. They put everybody back in there.
Finally it did come down.
Témoignage de James Drury :Frank Cruthers a écrit :Early on, there was concern that 7 World Trade Center might have been both impacted by the collapsing tower and had several fires in it and there was a concern that it might collapse. So we instructed that a collapse area --
Q. A collapse zone?
A. Yeah -- be set up and maintained so that when the expected collapse of 7 happened, we wouldn't have people working in it. There was considerable discussion with Con Ed regarding the substation in that building and the feeders and the oil coolants and so on. And their concern was of the type of fire we might have when it collapsed. They shut down the power, and when it did collapse, the things that they were concerned with would have been. That's about it.
Témoignage de Frank Fellini :James Drury a écrit :There were hundreds of firefighters waiting to -- they were waiting for 7 World Trade Center to come down as it was on fire. It was too dangerous to go in and fight the fire.
Témoignage de Ray GoldbachFrank Fellini a écrit :The major concern at that time at that particular location was number Seven, building number seven, which had taken a big hit from the north tower. When it fell, it ripped steel out from between the third and sixth floors across the facade on Vesey Street. We were concerned that the fires on several floors and the missing steel would result in the building collapsing.
So for the next five or six hours we kept firefighters from working anywhere near that building, which included the whole north side of the World Trade Center complex. Eventually around 5:00 or a little after, building number seven came down.
Témoignage de William Johnson :Ray Goldbach a écrit :There was a big discussion going on at that point about pulling all of our units out of 7 World Trade Center. Chief Nigro didn't feel it was worth taking the slightest chance of somebody else getting injured.
So at that point we made a decision to take all of our units out of 7 World Trade Center because there was a potential for collapse.
Q. It was on fire, correct, Captain?
A. Yes, it was on fire at that time. Then they said it suffered some form of structural damage. These things were going on at the same time. The fact that we thought we found Ganci and Feehan and his place at 7 World Trade Center. Made the decision to back everybody away, took all the units and moved them all the way back toward North End Avenue, which is as far I guess west as you could get on Vesey Street, to keep them out of the way.
Vous me permettrez de ne pas en rajouter, c'est du temps perdu, je m'arrête à la lettre J dans la liste des témoignages de pompiers, mais il y en a sans doute autant de l'autre côté de l'alphabet. On a pas besoin de plus pour pouvoir affirmer que tous les témoignages concordent sur ce point : Le WTC 7 était si gravement endommagé que les pompiers avaient vu venir plusieurs heures à l'avance son effondrement et mis en place un périmètre de sécurité autour du bâtiment en prévision de sa chute.William Johnson a écrit :We were in the Millennium for a cautionary line because they were afraid of the fire extending to that building.
Then at one point they chased us out of there for fear of collapse of a building; I believe it was Seven World Trade. So they got us out of there because they didn't know which way that building was going to collapse.
Je répète pour ceux à qui je l'ai déjà dit 10 fois et qui continuent de nier l'évidence :
Le WTC 7 était gravement endommagé, son effondrement était normal, prévisible et prévu.
Denis
