The link suggests even the people in the first tower were told to stay put:
Dan Baumbach, 24, a software engineer from Merrick, was stunned to find that building officials in One World Trade Center were telling workers not to evacuate even after the first jet struck.
"You can try it, but it's at your own risk," he quoted one official as telling a group of 100 people on the 75th floor. Many chose to follow that advice; Baumbach continued his descent from the 80th floor and survived, but only after braving the debris that fell when the neighboring tower collapsed.
"The reason we got out was because we didn't listen," he said.
Michael Cartier, 24, of Jackson Heights, said his sister Michelle, who worked in Tower One, told him that after the first plane struck, "'People began to evacuate, but an announcement over the intercom said everything was all right, no need to evacuate.'
"If this is true," Michael Cartier said, "they told people to go back to their desks. There should be an investigation."
etc etc...
Even if there was no second plane, those two shared the same foundation and the collapse of one would not be very healthy for the other. Remember the other buildings that went down in the area, which were not struck by any planes... |
