Cause And Effect Essay On 9/11

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9/11 was a tragedy that will remain in everyone's hearts possibly forever. On the morning on September 11 a horrific attack was carried out that left thousands of people dead and millions of dollars in damage done. The authors of 102 Minutes Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn provided most of the information in this essay, however numerous other equally as credible sources were used. After sifting through all the sources there is one big issue with 9/11 that contributed to the loss of life. The biggest factor to loss of life on 9/11 has to be the immense lack of preparation done by the city, the workers, and the first responders.
The first factor that comes from the fact that the twin towers never ran any kind of drills. The first piece of evidence …show more content…

According to the authors of 102 minutes “the world trade center was not built for a total evacuation” which is really bad for the all the thousands of people trying to evacuate the building at once (Dwyer and Flynn 65). Another example about the towers is way the stairs were built. According to the New York Times “it had taken twice as long to go down a single flight of stairs as had been projected” so for all the people who were trying to race out of the towers as soon as possible it took at least twice as long as it would in any other building (Saltonstall and Mcphee). The two pieces of evidence gives plenty of responsibility on the towers for not being built properly and thus leading to a high body count on the morning of …show more content…

That reason is that if the NYPD and the NYFD worked together during the event of 9/11 the more lives could have been saved. However, if the city had been prepared for something like this the two divisions would have been forced to work together which would save peoples lives. To disprove this claim the authors of 102 Minutes stated “The rescue workers of New York City did not have a system for sharing that information...no practice of working together at command posts” showing that the city had never given the two divisions a chance to work together (Dwyer and Flynn 227). It does not matter if the two divisions worked together on 9/11 or not due to the fact that they had never worked together previously. The two divisions working together would only lead to more confusion. Another example to disprove the counterclaim was evidence that was used to prove the regular claim which said “Pre-9/11 there was limited or no capability of first responders from different jurisdictions to communicate with each other” that states that during this time the two divisions had no way of communicating with each other. So once again this proves that if the city had better prepared the two divisions then maybe they could both have been more effective as a whole. The fact that entire city had not prepared for a disaster like this goes way beyond the NYPD and NYFD, the workers

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