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Volume 27
September 2018 Edition
6 World Trade Center was an eight-story building in Lower Manhattan that served as the U.S. Customs House for New York.
The cell phone network of New York City
was rapidly overloaded by the mass call
event, as traffic doubled over normal lev-
els, in loads greater than they were de-
signed to carry. The structural steel of the skyscraper, built
to withstand winds in excess of 200 miles per
hour and a large conventional fire, could not
withstand the tremendous heat generated by
the burning jet fuel.
And the Office of Emergency Management
(OEM) and Customs radio repeaters were
located on top of the World Trade Center
tower complex. Once his team was accounted for, Scott and
members of his group drove to as close as they
could get to what would eventually be known
as ‘Ground Zero,’ parking at One Police Plaza
(1PP).
The horror took a catastrophic turn
when the South Tower of the World
Trade Center collapsed in a massive
cloud of dust and smoke.
He explained stepping from the vehicle, a
half mile from the World Trade Center, and
seeing his foot disappear, buried in a pile
of ash.
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