First of all, Gage uses retired USAF Major Reginald Shinn to narrate. I guess since you have an elderly military man speaking, it adds believability?
Lets go through the "facts" that Major Shinn brings up. (my responses will be in bold)
1. Fireman were working throughout the building.
1.in or to every part of; everywhere in: They searched throughout the house.dictionary.reference.com...
FACT: In the South tower, the last transmission was on or around the 79th floor.
2. Battalion 7 was on the 79th floor
Yes, they were
3. Battalion 15 was on the 78th floor
Yes, they were
4. Alpha 7 reached the 55th floor.
yes, they did.
5. Rescue teams encountered only small isolated pockets of fire.
There is no where in their communications where the word "small" was used. Isolated and pocket does not mean small. We will also look into where they were in regards to where the plane impacted the South tower.
6. Rescue Workers were finding numerous wounded survivors.
It is true. But, what I find disingenuous is how the Major failed to mention the numerous deaths that were reported as well:
"numerous 10-45's code 1".- Chief Orio Palmer
For those of you that don't know, a 10-45 code 1 is a dead person.
source: nyfd.com...
7. The structure of the tower was not melted or deformed.
Melted? This is another pathetic attempt to play the melted steel game. We all know the steel was not melted.
In regards to deformities of the structure:
Even as people streamed down the stairs, the cracks were appearing in the walls as the building shuddered and cringed. Steam pipes burst, and at one point an elevator door burst open and a man fell out, half burned alive, his skin hanging off. People dragged him out of the elevator and helped get him out of the building to the doctors below. "If I had listened to the announcement," says survivor Joan Feldman, "I'd be dead right now."source
78th floor
Kelly Reyher, AON Corporation: The elevator split at the seams, the floor blew up. You could just sort of look right through the corner of the elevator into the elevator shaft and it was just all fire.
So I was able to crawl out. And then when I crawled out you just saw an absolute scene of destruction. Across from me, because when you crawl out you're facing the other elevator bank, they were completely destroyed. There was fire just shooting out those
source: "Accounts From the South Tower" The New York Times, May 26, 2002
77th floor
Somewhere around the 77th floor, the stairway walls were cracked, and you could look through the cracks and see flames. They were just quietly licking up, not a roaring inferno. And there was some smoke there, but again I think the stairs were pressurized, pushing the air out so we had less smoke in the stairway than you might imagine.
-Brian Clark
8. Rescue Workers were climbing on un-compromised staircases
As you can see above from the survivors, the stairwells were compromised. In FACT, in this very transmission at about the 8:18 mark of the YouTube Video, there were firefighters fighting a fire in the B - Stairwell:
Orio we are here on 78 but we are in the b stair we're trapped in here we've got to put some fire out to get to you............. All right, we are going to knock down some fire here in the "B" stair and we will meet up with you- Joseph Leavey
9. Elevators were in use up the 40th floor.
Yes, until if you listen at the 9:33 of the video:
Stuck in the elevator in the elevator shaft, we're chopping through the wall to get out.
Major Shinn closes out with the typical truther rant. I'm not sure what he meant when he stated that:
Fires were said to destroy the 110 stories of structural steel.
Does anyone have ANY quotes from firefighters that were at the point of impact or the floors above it?
Does anyone know what the lowest floor was that was impacted by the plane?
Does anyone know how many people survived above the impact point?
Does anyone know why people were jumping to their deaths above the impact point?
I will be posting more photographs of the "small" fires soon.
[edit on 6-3-2010 by ImAPepper]




