Lord Herbert wrote on Sep 18
th, 2015 at 7:41am:
Why - after the first Twin Tower collapsed - were the NY firefighters still being ordered to enter the second burning tower to proceed up the stairs until they reached the impact zone?
I've been trying to make sense of this.
The evidence was right there next to the second tower that it would soon collapse, and an emergency evacuation was the only logical course of action.
And the second mystery is why those firefighters obeyed the insane order to approach the remaining building and enter it like drugged zombies.
What sort of 'macho' bullshit was it that cancelled all their natural intelligence and their instinct for self-preservation in the face of impending disaster?
These robotic zombies even had the promptings of a man who ran out of the second building shouting at them to run away as the building was about to collapse. But they just kept walking silently to their inevitable deaths.
343 firemen lost their lives, but how many in the second tower, I don't know.
link It is a fierce sense of duty that incites people to do their employment, despite the danger. I work in the transport industry, considered part of the most dangerous jobs in Australia. Though, I think my job really only entails the threat of car accidents. I have also worked in the taxi industry. That entailed the threat of robberies, car accidents, assaults. Finally, in my younger days, I worked in retail. The threat I had received was verbal abuse, sexual harassment, age discrimination, and a robbery (with a few attempted robberies).
However, these threats and incidents pale in comparison to the arduous circumstances that the fire officials had to endure on one day of their lives. Unfortunately, many of them had to make that sacrifice to try and save the lives of a few. Those sacrifices included having to run up the stairs to the impact zone with little protection. Not many of those fire officials would have thought that the towers were to collapse. But I bet all of them had a strong idea that the towers could collapse. To go in and save some lives despite the odds, that is bravery.
I sat at home, watching some of the events unfold on the news. Though I thought that the first tower would not fall, there was little doubt that at some point in the future, the second tower would have probably fallen. Either demolished a few days later for safety considerations, or as a result of the impact and fire damage.
Realistically, Herbert, you should show the decision of emergency services personnel a lot more respect.