Why were only a select few people warned? How many lives would have been saved if everyone had received this warning? Were Port Authority staff told to stay in the buildings? If so, why? In all, 16 workers waited on the 64th floor and weighed escape options after a hijacked jetliner cut through the skin of the north tower about 30 stories above them. The rest of the floor had cleared out 30 minutes earlier. Why the 16 stayed is open to question. Only McMillan and co-worker Pasquale Buzzelli survived.



Some say the group was instructed to stay by the Port Authority police, even though radio transcripts show the Port Authority's commanding officer at the World Trade Center, Capt. Anthony Whitaker, ordered a full evacuation of the complex a minute before a second hijacked jetliner struck the south tower. On instructions from the Port Authority, McMillan declines to discuss why she stayed. [Bergen Record] Why were firefighters in the impact zone of WTC 2 unaware that the building was going to collapse? They should have been the ones reporting this information, instead they reported only isolated fires immediately before the building's collapse. Isolated fires do not bring down steel framed buildings.



Have a listen to the radio transmissions of North Brunswick Volunteer Fire/Ladder Company #3 on 9/11. Hear the shock, anguish and suffering as the WTC buildings came to ground. Why didn't these firefighters receive notice that the buildings were going to collapse? 9/11 ABC News report:

557kB WMV download "This is as close as we can get to the base of the World Trade Center. You can see the firemen assembled here, the police officers, FBI agents, and you can see the two towers... a huge explosion now raining debris on all of us."



"We gotta get out of the way!"