When 9/11 happened, many people died because they weren't prepared for the worst to happen. The planes crashed near the upper 3rd of the towers and the crash spanned about 10 floors leaving many living people above and below the crash site that could have been saved using certain tactics to evacuate.
If everyone prepared completely for a terrorist attack on the twin towers, the fire dept. And police dept. Would have had a plan to evacuate as many people as possible and would have been working in sync, The people above the crash site would have had a solid evacuation plan and the people below the crash site would also have a solid evacuation plan.
If the fire dept. And police dept. Would have been working together, the mortality rate of the attack would have gone down tremendously. …show more content…
Some people quickly escaped but others kept doing their own business or went to gather their possessions. If the fire and police Dept. both had plans to evacuate and effectively communicated those plans to the people in the building, then many more people would have gotten out of the towers and to safety. Of course not everyone might not immediately follow the directions of the fire and police dept. And people might still take time to gather their possessions, but that wouldn’t happen if safety drills were ran and everyone in the tower knew what they had to do to live.
Despite people below the crash site having more than enough time to escape, many people still died and many did not escape because they weren’t prepared for the worst. If the people below a certain floor had a plan to escape, many less people would have died because if the evacuation was faster, more people would have left the building and less people would have