Firemen Statements about WTC7

CHIEF THOMAS MCCARTHY

WTC7

THEY HAD THREE FLOORS OF FIRE, THREE SEPARATE FLOORS PROBABLY 10 11 AND 15 IT LOOKED LIKE JUST BURNING MERRILY.

IT WAS PRETTY AMAZING YOU KNOW ITS THE AFTERNOON IN MANHATTAND A MAJOR HIGH RISE IS BURNING AND THEY

SAID WE KNOW. I THINK THEY SAID THEY HAD SEVEN TO TEN FLOORS THAT WERE FREESTANDING AND THEY WERENT GOING

TO SEND ANYONE IN. THEY JUST HAD FLOOD OF GUYS STANDING THERE THEY WERE JUST WAITING FOR IT TO COME DOWN.

WTC7 questions

CHIEF FRANK FELLINI FDNY

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 m

issing 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.

Captain R. Goldbach

At that time, somebody had come into 1 World Trade Center and told us that the Mayor was looking for the Fire Commissioner.

WTC7 before either tower fell

Before we got back to the command post, somebody told us that the Mayor's group had

now gone to 7 World Trade Center to the OEM command post. We went from where we were

at that point, it was somewhere around Vesey or Vesey or something like that.

We got into 7 World Trade Center, we took the escalator up to

the second floor, then we were going to take the elevator. I think it was John Peruggia

from operations, but I'm not sure, at that point told us we had to get out of that building. Everybody was evacuated in that building- (blanked out info)

We walked out of 7 World Trade Center, now following the whole group of people from City Hall who were somewhere ahead of us. I think we were on Washington Street near Greenwich Street, when the north tower started to collapse. (actually it was WTC2)

We started working our way, I think it was up Broadway, I believe. Stopping at several places where the Mayor was looking for a place where we might be able to set up some type of - I don't know whether it was a command post or a place just to talk, and he was giving news reports as we were walking on the street. Every couple of minutes he would stop and give an update on whatever he had. Just what was going on as we were walking uptown.

We walked all the way up to 5 truck in a panic and haste situation. We just about forced our way into the fire house and we set up the - I guess the initial operations point from the Mayor's office at 5 truck. We were there for -- prior to getting to 5 truck, the other tower fell down. (WTC1)

John McLaughlin had left us before we started to walk uptown. I remember telling him to try to get the car, so after the first building collapsed and before the second building collapsed, I told him we were going to be -- I didn't know where we were going.

At that point , I guess the Mayor had made t h e decision to move the City Hall group, the operations command to the Police Academy. We left from there . We went to the Police Academy for again, I guess several hours, trying to set up some type of Fire Department command post at the Police Academy. We had the phones. 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.

FIREFIGHTER ROBERT HUMPHREY

As I was waiting, then all of a sudden the second engine company pulled up right next to 7 World Trade Center, which is on West Broadway and Vesey, but they were right across. They were right next to it, directly to the east of 7 World Trade Center and across from the post office.

Then I helped him hook up, and then after that I think it was 21 engine, 21 or 22. I think it's 21, though. He hooked up a little further down on Vesey Street. So we had three pumpers pushing water into the building. At that point between actually – probably before the third engine company came is when the second plane hit,

FIREFIGHTER GEORGE RODRIGUEZ

Fire pumps in WTC7 used to fight fires in WTC1

I saw the maintenance crew to Seven World Trade Center standing there watching the building. I gathered them up and asked them if they had fire pumps in the building. They did. I had a Siamese directly across Washington Street on Vesey going into the towers, so I used the maintenance men and an engine company chauffeur from 26 Engine named Mike Incantalupo. I used him to hook up a source of water from their fire pumps to my rig and into the World Trade Center.

WTC2

At that point we were supplying the standpipe Siamese. All was going well with that. At that point the preliminary sounds of the collapse

started, the loud crackling sounds. We all started running.

WTC7

FIREFIGHTER MICHAEL Morabito

We waited there for a while and then 7 came down.

BATTALION CHIEF CONGIUSTA: They don't really want to know about 7.

DR. MICHAEL GUTTENBERG

At triage area on loading dock of WTC7 when tower 2 fell. We walked our way through the loading dock by feel. We got to the opposite side. We found our way out of one of the back doors of No. 7 and came outside, I ultimately ended up back on West Street, so I'm going to think -- and it was some packing lots and stuff like that. So I actually – I think I came out by Barclay, and proceeded back down -- ultimately proceeded back down to West.

ABDO NAHMOD EMS WTC7 evacuated due to 3^rd plane on way to WTC

MOMENTS THEREAFTER WE WERE ADVISED BY THE STAFF AT OEM THAT WE WERE TO VACATE THE BUILDINQ THAT THEY BELIEVED THERE WAS ANOTHER POSSIBLE PLANE ON ITS WAY AND PROCEEDED DOWN THE STAIRWELL OF WORLD TRADE 7 ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE GROUND FLOOR

EMS DIVISION CHIEF JOHN PERUGGIA

After 2^nd plane hit WTC2

I reached 7 World Trade Center. We walked into the lobby and we were going up the escalators to the main level. I checked in at the security desk. I believe it was Deputy Director Rotanz, who is a Fire Department Captain on detail over there, Captain Nahmod and EMT Zarrillo approached as well. They had indicated that the building was being evacuated. I questioned as to what the nature of the evacuation was. I was told that it was not because of what was occurring across the street. No one feared that the building was in any danger as a result of two airplane attacks and subsequent fires, but that there were reports of a third plane that had been hijacked.

FIREFIGHTER PATRICK CONNOLLY took refuge in WTC7

When WTC1 fell

Somehow he forced the door and was pulling us into the space, into the -- now basically into the belly of 7 World Trade and he explained that he was a Fire Marshal, named Joe Brosi. There were some interior stairs and they were gonna go down to probably more like a bomb the second and the third floor."

LIEUTENANT PATRICK SCARINGELLO EMS

WTC2

I heard the explosion from up above. I looked up, I saw smoke and flame and then I

saw the top tower tilt, start to twist and lean.

We did go past -- we went up Church, we went up Vesey, past 7 Trade, which at the time didn't look like it was involved

EMS CAPTAIN MARK STONE

I was looking up to see if I could do a little more initial size up. That is when I saw the second plane hit the building . I just watched it coming i n .

We made it i n t o t h e lobby. There was no problem a t t h a t p o i n t . We found out t h a t 7 World Trade Center houses OEM and Secret Service and a bunch of o t h e r agencies, but they were a l l evacuated a t t h a t p o i n t

Other buildings damaged more and had more fire, but didn’t collapse

WTC5

Firefighter Craig Monahan I came back down, and I went to five, and it was crushed with steel and all kinds of crap.

WTC7 Evidence of Controlled Demolition http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/wtc7.html#ref1

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/wtc7.html

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/pullit.html

WTC 5 was severely damaged by fallout from the collapse of the towers. Serious fires raged through WTC 5 for hours. Despite the massive structural damage shown by the holes, and fires far more severe than those in WTC 1, 2, and 7, WTC 5 did not collapse. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/wtc5.html WTC 6 was severely damaged on September 11 with two holes that extend the height of the building. It appears that fires may have raged through WTC 6. From the appearance of the remains of WTC 6, it probably had fires similar in severity to those in WTC 5. Despite the massive structural damage shown by the holes, and fires probably more severe than those in WTC 1, 2, and 7, WTC 6 did not collapse.

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/wtc6_5.html

WTC 4 was severely damaged by fallout from the collapse of the South Tower, with all but one wing of the building having collapsed to ground level. The portion of WTC 4 that remained standing had a blackened appearance suggesting that it sustained severe fires. Despite the crushing of most of WTC 4 by fallout from the towers, it does not appear that the fires caused any further collapse of this building. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/wtc4.html

WTC 3 was first partially crushed by the steel skeleton fragments from the South Tower and then further crushed by those from the North Tower. In each case the rubble, falling from as much as 1300 feet, collapsed regions spanning several floors but was arrested by the building's steel structure. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/wtc3.html

(what caused the fire and when???; the decision to evacuate WTC7 and find another control center was made before either tower collapsed; WTC7 had a block with buildings between it and the towers and no indication at that time the towers might collapse? ; WTC7 was a specially built building with lots of expensive emergency management equipment there)

what did the owner mean when he said he suggested “pulling it”?

WTC7 NIST Study fire alarm system turned off

The building fire alarm system was placed on TEST for a period of 8 h beginning at
6:47:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001. Ordinarily, this is requested when maintenance or other testing is being performed on the system, so that any alarms that are received from the system are considered the result of the maintenance or testing and are ignored.

"Finding 2.25: The fire alarm system that was monitoring WTC 7 sent to the monitoring company only one signal (at 10:00:52 a.m. shortly after the collapse of WTC 2) indicating a fire condition in the building on September 11, 2001. This signal did not contain any specific information about the location of the fire within the building.

http://wtc.nist.gov/progress_report_june04/chapter1.pdf (pg28)

WTC Building 7 was the third skyscraper to collapse into rubble on September 11, 2001. According to the government, small fires leveled this building, but fires have never before or since destroyed a steel skyscraper. And many fires have been much worse.

The volunteer team who investigated the collapse were not allowed access to the crime scene. By the time they published their inconclusive report, the evidence had been destroyed.

Why did the government rapidly recycle the steel from the largest and most mysterious engineering failure in world history to China, and why has the media remained silent?

To experienced engineers and researchers looking at the evidence, its clear this was a controlled demolition, like the others, and the public was deceived. And the next day there was WTC3 again with no rational explanation.

See www.wtc7.net

Indira Singh (was at WTC7 site) decision was made to bring down WTC7

KPFA "Guns and Butter"
Interviews with Indira Singh
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"Ground Zero 911, Blueprint For Terror, Part One" April 27th 2005
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