Another Sad Story From An Eyewitness At The WTC...

[shifrbv]

Hadn't seen this in any of the media reports and found it to be just another extremely sad story. Just heard about it tonight. A friend of my spouse's was on the 40th floor of the North tower when it got hit. Among the chaos and the evacuation as he left to go down the stairs he noticed several people in wheelchairs just stuck off to the side. No one could help them and the elevators had been stopped. He said water pipes were bursting everywhere and people were just rushing one another to get out. The wheelchair people were helpless and no doubt perished in the collapse.

During this whole thing, I never thought of all the disabled who must have died in this.

 

[yakko]

I heard about that yesterday. It was so terrible to hear.

 

[DAWeinG]

Extremely fvcking sad........ =(

 

[joohang]

Oh.. man..

 

[veryape]

I just have a hard time thinking nobody at least tried to help them. I have a feeling they will be found on peoples shoulders and not where they were seen last.

 

[tjwenger]

A strong salute, right here, from me... to them. All of them. God bless them.

 

[technogeeky]

Yeah, I remember seeing people being carried out of the bombing in 93.


However, I'd have to believe that there was SOME SORT of escape possibility for people in wheelchairs. I don't understand how it would be legal to provide a building that doesn't have some sort of escape plan for disabled people.


If this is not the case, it will be.

-tg

 

[spanky]

<< A strong salute, right here, from me... to them. All of them. God bless them. >>



i second that.

 

[shifrbv]

"I don't understand how it would be legal to provide a building that doesn't have some sort of escape plan for disabled people."

This building being built in the 70's I would highly doubt there would be much alternatives for handicapped people. I thought they just started mandating handicapped facilities in the 90's and many buildings still don't have them. I believe federal buildings are the only ones required to be compliant. Besides, how are you going to build wheelchair ramps in 110 story buildings that old? I bet alot of skyscrapers today don't have any alternatives for the disabled.

 

[ricerx]

What I can't believe is that no one helped them. With that many people going down, they could've helped carry them. Many people that talked about walking down the stairways said it was slow moving anyway. So why not help them? Granted that they were 40 floors up but if someone got tired, can't others help?