World Trade Center, how many killed by Port Authority greed?
(c) 2001, Mike Barkley
[last updated 02/07/02 - I use minimal HTML to maximize your download speed]

WTC death toll, crude counts or estimates - While the terrorists did the deadly deed, others contributed to the death toll :


Absence of an evacuation plan to move people away from the building once they reached the ground floor. . .? dead

Absence of blast doors on full-length elevator shafts. . . ?

Failure of 2 of the 3 stairwells per tower to extend all the way to ground level. . .?

Failure to make stairwells wide enough for using a "stokes", for simultaneous ingress and egress, for evacuating more than 6-people abreast at any one time. . . . ?

Locked fire stair doors . . . at least 1 dead

Failure to supply tools on site to allow penetration of locked fire doors. . .at least 1

Failure to provide guidance, roof access, and power to trapped window cleaner Roko Camaj. . . at least 1

Failure to keep people out of the plaza and other peripheral areas where debris was falling. . . at least 1

En masse dereliction of duty by the elevator mechanics . . . . at least 2

Failure to provide adequately for evacuation of disabled people. . .at least 3

Failure to include structural safety concerns in the decision to deploy rescue personnel . . . .479

Failure of WTC Management, Security, Communications to advise persons on the top floors of WTC 2 that Stairwell A was open for escape and to instruct them to use it without delay. . . .480

Encouraging people to return to work in WTC 2....up to 599

Failure of air traffic control and national law enforcement to get the warning to occupants of WTC 2 in time . . .at least 599

Locked doors to the roof, north tower . . . .up to 1139

Failure of Silverstein to comply with codes for which the Port Authority was exempt. . . up to 1139

Failure of Giuliani to allow helicopter rescue from the WTC 1 roof. . .up to 1139

Prejudice within the New York Fire Department against helicopter rescue . . . .up to 1139

Failure to provide hardened stairwells at opposite corners of the buildings. . .up to 1800

Failure to provide a reasonable ratio of stairwell capacity to elevator capacity. . . up to 1800

New York Fire Department "defend-in-place" philosophy . . . .up to 2098

Failure to provide redundant on-site fire-suppression capability, direct liquid accelerants away from structural members, deliver firefighters to the fire in a timely manner with adequate suppression tools. . .up to 2098

Use of sheetrock instead of concrete to protect core facilities. . .up to 2098

Structural failure of the WTC. . . up to 2098

Failure to properly insulate the support steel . . . up to 2098

Failures by the airlines to adequately screen passengers. . .2826

Failures by the Federal authorities to require adequate airport and airline security. . .2826

Failures by the Federal Intelligence Agencies to anticipate and head off the terrorist acts . . . 2832

Exemption of the WTC from local fire codes . . .2832

Lying by the Rockefeller-controlled Port Authority, Tobin, et al., to the New York Supreme Court and everyone else as to the "public purpose" of the WTC. . .2832

Greed by the Port Authority, Tozzoli, et al., in specifying the project size. . . .2832


Acts of terrorists, 1993 & 2001. . . . 2832 dead.


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