Argumentative Essay On 9/11

On September 11, the fire track with the sound of a siren violently jumps out the New York department and ran towards the origin of turmoil, the World Trade Centers, where two airplanes hijacked by Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda that without stopping the momentum, struck. Simultaneously with the moment of the explosion, as ripples spread rapidly, black smoke and various emotions of people covered the town. Surrounding people wailed, and stared with desperation to the collapsing of the symbol of the United States. The remains are called Ground Zero. That attack killed about 3,000 people, injured over 6,000 others, which included the firefighter and police officers who bravely, or were compelled to rescue the people, and they should able

After the explosion, civilians acted to clarify what happened to their tower. There was no choice, who had lost their calm or order. Because of the confusion the building, workers had to rely family of outside, most of them call Emergency 911 operators to recognize what circumstance they are in, and what should they make the action. However, optimistic civilians soon lost hope. Each operator of instruction or information was inconsistently relied to those scared civilians.

From the 102 minutes, which delineated the story of 9/11 by Jim Dwyer, remarkable author, and Kevin Flynn, a special projects editor at The New York Times, was the newspaper's police bureau chief on September 11, shows the conversations of operators and civilians.

“Male Caller, 87th Floor: Yes, we’re trying to figure … we are up on the 87th floor. We’re trying to figure out what’s going on.PAPD Officer Greg Brady: Two. Just stand by, there’s no cond-... the incident happened at 1 World Trade Center. And we have the … that’s the first .. the first incident, the first emergency, as for as rescue. Just stand by ” ( Dwyer, Flynn 71 ).

Emergency 911 operators did not know where the planes had struck, and so couldn't tell people whether they were above or below the fire” (Roberts 66).

Another communication weakness in the World Trade Center was the vulnerability of electric systems, especially Repeater system. A lesson learned from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Port Authority installed the radio repeaters to enhance the evacuations of the civilians. They also planned fire drills. Those seemed to be perfect defensive preparations that everyone sought a the secure workplace. Ironically this excessive sense of safety that stopped the improvement of quality.

From Psc Online, both authors, Kelly M Sharp a Telecommunicator 911 Dispatcher program in Portland Oregon, and Keri Losavio was working at Elsevier Public Safety, and learn at the Pacific Union College, says “the FDNY says, “was the damage done to infrastructure called repeaters, which made radio signals work at the Twin Towers. That left many commanders and firefighters unable to talk to each other. Firefighters in the stairwells couldn’t hear the evacuation order, and as a result, 343 died.” (Sharp, Losavio) This fact point out that the repator system that disabled the radio connection so they lost their life such s isolated Twin