Another Giuliani failure in today's news

[ShockediSay]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/nyregion/01tapes.html

City Releases Tapes of 911 Calls From Sept. 11 Attack

In addition to his budget cutting induced failure to supply first responders with adequate communications equipment, today's news shines a light on yet another failure of Giuliani for 9/11. This was the failure to have 911 procedures in place which could have saved numerous lives.

"One unidentified man in the south tower called at 9:08 a.m., shortly after the second plane struck the building. For the next 11 minutes, as his call was bounced from police operators to fire dispatchers and back again, the 911 system confirmed its reputation as a rickety, dangerous contraption, one that the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani had tried to overhaul with little success, and one that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg hopes to improve by spending close to $1 billion."

I read this article as yet another sad report on our so-called executive leadership 9/11.

"The recordings, on 11 compact discs, also document in painful detail a failed link in the chain of emergency communications, which was first cited by the 9/11 Commission.

No more than two of the 130 callers to 911 were told to leave the towers, the tapes reveal, even though unequivocal orders to evacuate the entire trade center had been given about 10 minutes after the first plane hit, by fire and police commanders on the scene. Indeed, most callers were told to wait, the standard advice in ordinary high-rise fires. The city had no procedure for field commanders to share fresh information with the 911 system."

[napi21]

1. Well, Rudy didn't improve the system, and he should have, but

in a bit of fairness to every previous NY Mayor, I really think everyone was lulled into a fase sense of security. I know I never expected an attack like that on the US. I would watch the bombings in Israel & Palestine as ask "Why do those people stay there?"

Perhapse people in power are supposed to be smarter than me, but isn't it human nature to not bother fixing things that seem to be working, even if they're not working well?

[aquart]

2. The system was awful.

But the people working that system were good as gold. Even though sometimes the advice was so wrong...we see their hearts, and their desperation, and frustration, and shock.

For some reason New York decided it was too awful to hear the voices of the soon to be dead, but okay to hear the people whose souls would be branded with those voices forever.

They wanted to help so much.