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Giuliani stated in an ABC News interview that he was given warning of a collapse well in advance of the actual event. I was "told that the World Trade Center was gonna' collapse," referring to the 9:59 destruction of the South Tower. "I went down to the scene and we set up a headquarters at 75 Barkley Street, which was right there with the Police Commissioner, the Fire Commissioner, the Head of Emergency Management, and we were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna' to collapse. And it did collapse before we could actually get out of the building, so we were trapped in the building for 10, 15 minutes, and finally found an exit, got out, walked north, and took a lot of people with us."

His account is corroborated by 2 different eye witness accounts from the passages of the Oral Histories of emergency responders. The account of EMT Richard Zarillo goes as follows: As I was walking towards the Fire command post, I found Steve Mosiello. I said, Steve, where's the boss? I have to give him a message. He said, well, what's the message? I said the buildings are going to collapse; we need to evac everybody out. With a very confused look he said who told you that? I said I was just with John at OEM. OEM says the buildings are going to collapse; we need to get out. He escorted me over to Chief Ganci. He said, hey, Pete, we got a message that the buildings are going to collapse. His reply was who the f___ told you that? Then Steve brought me in and with Chief Ganci, Commissioner Feehan, Steve, I believe Chief Turi was initially there, I said, listen, I was just at OEM. The message I was given was that the buildings are going to collapse; we need to get our people out. At that moment, this thunderous, rolling roar came down and that's when the building came down, the first tower came down."

Zarillo's recollection is verified by Fire Marshall Steven Mosiello's account: "At that point I don't know exactly when the Commissioner and Mayor had left. It was pretty soon after they had left that Richie Zarillo, who works with EMS -- I believe he's an OEM liaison -- came running up to me. I was not on the ramp at this time. I was like almost at the sidewalk location. He said Steve, where's the Chief? I have to tell him, you know -- I said tell him what, Richie? These buildings are in imminent danger of collapse. I said how do you know that, you know? So he ran with me. I ran over and grabbed Chief Ganci and said Chief, these buildings are in imminent danger of collapse."

Iif Giuliani knew the towers were 'to collapse' as he said he did, why not order emergency and rescue workers out of the buildings and save some of the 403 first responders that were killed on that day? The real question is: who in the OEM told Guiliani and Zarillo that the towers were pending collapse? If someone had prior knowledge of the towers destruction, perhaps that person can explain how they knew those towers were coming down.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: July 15, 2007 at 1:06 am
Author: EndeavorFreedom

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Video Comments:
PARKEREAL (August 8, 2008 at 6:54 pm)
criminal and he used the horrific event to try to be president what a sham
webovisionca (July 25, 2008 at 8:53 am)
criminal. no question
Goldbuckles (April 3, 2008 at 9:37 pm)
Ron Paul for freedome
hongster76 (November 3, 2008 at 2:26 pm)
but sadly, idealists like Ron Paul or Nader can never gain enough popular support from the majority of the population in a democratic system.
Goldbuckles (March 31, 2008 at 1:15 am)
not true.
munky875821417 (March 31, 2008 at 5:53 pm)
Go to your local fire department and ask them if this is true. All good fire departments know building construction pretty good. Ask them what temp steel will fail. It is true. I spent well over a thousand hours in classroom learning from over 10 different departments and well known fire professionals, this building had strong possibilities to collapse. I would not bad mouth the city of New York officials. You try mitigating a situation like 9/11 and see how well you do.
charliehorse12345 (June 24, 2008 at 1:21 am)
if fire fighters knew this? why they go in the building?
munky875821417 (March 31, 2008 at 5:57 pm)
i replied to your reply as comment
munky875821417 (March 25, 2008 at 6:51 pm)
I never said it wasn't planned. I'm just saying the buildings were bound to collapse. If you think the government is keeping secrets. Try finding video of the pentagon getting hit on sept 11. Bet you didn't see it in the news. Bet you didn't see anywhere. Just the aftermath. I've seen video of it. It looks like a missle hit it not a plane.
Goldbuckles (April 3, 2008 at 9:35 pm)
You are 100% correct.