I saw that one coming for at least 3 seconds, maybe that had something to do with it.
Good lord.
It’s here…
I worked in a hospital and I would see people coming in from car crashes or bar fights and I was in the ER and I would get information from them. It’s amazing that they could completely remember the fight or their information and then four or five hours later they’d leave and have no recollectin they talked to me.
The doctors said it was a form of retrograde amnesia and the cops told me that is why they always want to talk to people straight off, because if they wait people will not remember those facts anymore.
I don’t know if that’s right, I’m not a medic, I only did the gathering of info for the ER, but it happened a lot, especially with the trauma and gunshots.
The first thing that comes to mind is the people who jumped probably weren’t collected right off. At least the ones that jumped willingly, so when the towers fell they’d be at the bottom of the heap and the fire would have longer to burn them. How many weeks did it take before all the fires at ground zero were out.
I also wondered what the effect of the updraft of the fires would have on the jumpers. I recall people jumping off tall building with parachutes before.
I doubt there was much left to burn once those poor people hit the ground (or the glass ceiling of the lobby- the worst part of the Gaudet brothers’ film was the sound of those people hitting the glass).
As for the updraft, I don’t think it would have any effect at all. They were coming down hard at terminal velocity.