"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander telling me they were not sure they'd be able to contain the fire. I said, y'know, we've had such terrible loss of life. Maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse."
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post-9/11 interview in 2006 PBS documentary, later quoted 2 december 2021 by Snopes
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