http://www.911dossier.co.uk/rebuttal.html
"The State Department addresses owner Larry Silverstein's famous
comment that he ordered WTC to be "pulled" with an unconvincing
argument that in fact he meant the firefighters should be
"pulled". This is the State Department’s interpretation, not
Silverstein’s.
Silverstein’s office is quoted stating that Silverstein talked to
NYFD chiefs about fire-fighters who were inside WTC 7. In contrast to
this statement it's on the public record that the NYFD abandoned the
fires in WTC 7 shortly after the twin towers collapsed:
"By 11:30 a.m., the fire commander in charge of that area, Assistant
Chief Frank Fellini, ordered firefighters away from it for safety
reasons." - New York Times (11/29/01)
FEMA agrees that NYFD did not fight the fires in WTC 7: "In addition,
the fire-fighters made the decision fairly early on not to attempt to
fight the fires... the development of the fires was not significantly
impeded by the fire-fighters because manual fire-fighting efforts were
stopped fairly early in the day” - FEMA (05/02)
Silverstein’s explanation also contradicts the evidence of Deputy
Fire Chief Peter Hayden (quoted in our book) who told Firehouse
magazine in April 2002: "by about two o'clock in the afternoon we
realised the thing was going to collapse". Is a contingent of
fire-fighters really going to enter such a building three hours
later?"
ilding three hours
later?"