Giuliani's Command Center
23rd floor of building was a bunker housing
Giuliani's Emergency Command Center.
It had:
- bullet- and bomb-resistant windows
- an independent, secure air and water supply
- the ability to withstand winds of 160 MPH
- an unobstructed view of entire height of both towers
Command center was built in 1998,
in response to 1993 bombing.
It was designed to respond to terrorist attack.
Yet on 9/11/01 it was supposedly abandoned.
Giuliani did not go to Building 7 that morning.
Instead, he went to makeshift headquarters on Barkley St.
He told ABC's Peter Jennings on 9/11/01
he received advance notice of the impending collapses:
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We were operating out of [the makeshift headquarters] when
we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse,
and it did collapse before we could get out of the building.
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Unfortunately the nearly 400 firefighters who were killed
by the unexpected collapses did not have the benefit of this knowledge.