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Early findings from another study, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control, found that only 45% of 445 Trade Center workers interviewed had known the buildings had three stairwells. Only half had known the doors to the roof would be locked. "I found the lack of preparedness shocking," says lead investigator Robyn Gershon, an associate professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University who shared the findings with TIME...
...used to stay at the Kenmore Hotel,” he says, “and when we’d walk to and from the park, you almost had to take your life into your hands because the people would be waiting for you along the roof...
...issue, too, was why a fire ignited by the explosive was allowed to consume Move's building until it was too late to prevent it from spreading to adjacent homes. Firemen stood back in hopes that the blaze would destroy a bunker on the building's roof. Arson Expert Charles G. King, a former New York City supervising fire marshal, said the flames could easily have been extinguished up until 6:15 p.m. But by the time the hoses were turned on at 6:30 p.m., the fire had spread below the roof line and was out of control...
...scythe. Henao later recollected that the wave "rolled into town with a moaning sound, like some sort of monster." Luckily, her home was on a hill. "Houses below us started cracking under the advance of the river of mud," she recalled. She grabbed her children and climbed to the roof of her home. As they watched, more than 80% of the roughly 4,200 buildings in Armero simply vanished into the torrents of slime. Said she: "It seemed like the end of the world...
...sleeping at home with his father and four brothers when the avalanche struck, blanketing all five with mud. Acosta can remember hearing boulders knock down walls and doors of their home. The family began racing up the stairs from the second floor of their dwelling toward the roof. As they climbed, a wall collapsed, trapping the father. Eventually Acosta and his brothers dragged the older man to safety, but within hours he was dying, vomiting blood...