102 Minutes By Jim Dwyer

Killings Caused by Communications On the September 11th attacks emergency response was paramount in rescuing the city, the people and protecting the citizens. To do so the emergency responders and officials at the towers had to seamlessly work together in order to aid to those who were trapped in and around the towers. To work efficiently communication between one another would be key. Without the ability to relay information quickly as there were many fast moving critical pieces to the problem there would be heavy loss and failure to save those in the towers. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened and it led to many unnecessary losses and casualties. The poor ability to communicate amongst those in the towers, management of the twin

Chapter 8 is titled “You can’t go this way”. It is one of the many chapters where they explain the problems and mistakes with the victims led to take multiple routes that would lead to loss of life. Rich Fern was fortunate enough to guess correctly on page 102, “He had left the east side of the building shortly before the right wing of Flight 175 raked the Euro Brokers’ trading desk, most likely killing everyone there instantly. He turned to a door. It led to what turned out tobe the only intact escape route in either of the two towers.” (Dwyer and Flynn). By showing the perspectives of the people in and around the towers with further information gathered afterwards layered in with the 1st hand accounts it provides a full circle analysis of the events. Another example of this style of writing is on page 130, “Martin Wortley of Cantor Fitzgerald told his brother over the phone he was hoping to leave by helicopter, and would head up the stairs in the north tower.” (Dwyer and Flynn). This is ironic in the most tragic way as the chapter is titled “The doors are locked”. This before and after/then and now pattern exemplifies the whole style and flow of the book along with showing the way the authors commentate on the