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Not one I'd have picked but am racing through it. I've predicted the baddies, let's see if I'm correct!
Not one I'd have picked but am racing through it. I've predicted the baddies, let's see if I'm correct!
Once the 3500s were pulled, all the firefighters had to pick up their Saber VHF radios again, estimated by the department and Motorola to be between 15 and 18 years old. In a war on 9/11 between terrorists armed with box cutters and fire chiefs who had to rely on runners for messages, bin Laden ended up with the low-tech edge.
(Continued)... decided at the outset that all the department could do was a search and rescue operation.
(Continued)... instincts. So some firefighters diverted people who were slowing down the evacuation of others to waiting areas. As many as 40 to 60 people were sequestered between the 12th and 20th floors of the North Tower. Some stayed there until they died.
pickDefinitely a hefty and dense read, but it was illuminating, intriguing, horrifying, and well worth the time and effort spent keeping the timeline and active figures straight. I don‘t know why I expected there to be so much more behind these beliefs, these people, and their hatred, but Wright deftly pulls back the veil to reveal that they are just men, weak men.
