Bill Manning, editor of Fire
Engineering, a
125-year-old-monthly
firefighting trade magazine
with ties to the New York City
Fire Department, wrote in an
editor's opinion piece in the
January 2002 issue called
'$elling Out the
Investigation', 'Fire
Engineering has good reason to
believe that the 'official
investigation' ble
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Bill Manning, editor of Fire
Engineering, a
125-year-old-monthly
firefighting trade magazine
with ties to the New York City
Fire Department, wrote in an
editor's opinion piece in the
January 2002 issue called
'$elling Out the
Investigation', 'Fire
Engineering has good reason to
believe that the 'official
investigation' blessed by FEMA
and run by the American
Society of Civil Engineers is
a half-baked farce that may
already have been commandeered
by political forces whose
primary interests, to put it
mildly, lie far afield of full
disclosure.' He also called
for an immediate stop to the
removal of steel from the site
of ground zero saying the
steel from the site should be
preserved as a crime scene so
that investigators can examine
what caused the collapse and
pass that knowledge on to
future generations of
engineers. The editorial
continues, 'A growing number
of fire protection engineers
have theorized that 'the
structural damage from the
planes and the explosive
ignition of jet fuel in
themselves were not enough to
bring down the towers,' the
editorial stated.And yet
rather than preserve that
scene or allow the emergency
workers to search for their
fallen comrades, Giuliani
instead brought in the NYPD to
seal off the area and minimize
any search and rescue work.
He was in a rush to start
dismantling ?the pile' siding
with developers and agreed to
a plan to sell off the scrap
metal to foreign nations for
even cheaper than what they
could have sold it for here in
the States. Why go through
the trouble of shipping scrap
metal out of country if you do
not have something to hide?
'New York authorities'
decision to ship the twin
towers' scrap to recyclers has
raised the anger of victims'
families and some engineers
who believe the massive
girders should be further
examined to help determine how
the towers collapsed.'

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