New video on WTC 7- 'Nigro, Please!'

Good work (like that font too). My only suggestion is regarding the Chief Nigro voice over. No one in NYC says "fidnee" when refering to the Fire Department of the City of New York. We say F-D-N-Y.
 
Alt+F4 said:
Good work (like that font too). My only suggestion is regarding the Chief Nigro voice over. No one in NYC says "fidnee" when refering to the Fire Department of the City of New York. We say F-D-N-Y.
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i swear somewhere else on this board is another new yorker saying the exact opposite, lol

maybe its a borough dialect, lol
 
boloboffin said:
You're kidding. I heard somewhere that FDNY rhymed with Sidney.
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It does.

Not everybody says it, of course, but some people certainly do, including the 9/11 operators, as evidenced by the tapes that were released quite some time ago.
 
I've lived my entire 43 years in NYC, I'm a 3rd generation city employee, my brother-in-law did 20 years with the FDNY and never, ever have I heard the FDNY refered to as "fidnee" (as in the the opposite of Sydney). My recollection in regard to 9/11 EMS phone calls was that the FDNY was refered to as "the fire department".

If you told a New Yorker that "fidnee" was on it's way to help them, that New Yorker would say, "Fidnee! What the ◊◊◊◊ is fidnee!"
 
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Blender Head said:
Any comments or critiques will help me in the future so all are welcome.
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Nicely done.

But am I the only person who feels that it has not been irrefutably established that Chief Nigro called Larry Silverstein that day?

Larry Silverstein says that he got a call from "the fire commander" but he does not identify the person by name, and Chief Nigro says that he did not "consult" Larry Silverstein. I realize that there is some ambiguity there, which leaves it open to suggest that Chief Nigro called Silverstein but did not, of course, "consult" with him about his decision with regard to WTC7, but is it not just as possible that some other "commander" on the scene that day called Larry Silverstein? E.g. a battalion commander or someone else?

Given that ref has been in contact with Chief Nigro, it seems that it is a matter that could be easily clarified to remove the ambiguity and find out definitively who called Larry Silverstein that day.

My apologies if it has already been clarified and I just missed it.
 
LashL said:
...but is it not just as possible that some other "commander" on the scene that day called Larry Silverstein? E.g. a battalion commander or someone else?
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Highly unlikely. The FDNY doesn't consult a building owner/leaser on how to fight a fire. My take on this is that Larry Silverstein was confused and the whole "pull it" conversation came after 9/11, when the FDNY explained why they pulled everyone away from the building.
 
Alt+F4 said:
The FDNY doesn't consult a building owner/leaser on how to fight a fire.
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Of course not. I don't think anyone has ever suggested that it does.


Alt+F4 said:
My take on this is that Larry Silverstein was confused and the whole "pull it" conversation came after 9/11, when the FDNY explained why they pulled everyone away from the building.
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That's also possible.

But, to date, the evidence is that someone called Larry Silverstein prior to the collapse of WTC7 to tell him that they were not going to be able to save the building, and in the current video under discussion, it is claimed that it was Chief Nigro who made that call.

I don't think the evidence is clear enough to make that determination, and thus my question above as to whether this has ever been verified, or whether it was someone other than Chief Nigro who may have called Mr. Silverstein. Not to ask for him how to fight the fire, of course, but simply to advise him of the state of affairs.
 
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Well, I don't mean to cause an issue over something like this. "Fidnee" may or may not be used by people (NY's a big place), but F-D-N-Y is unimpeachable. Blenderhead, I'll shoot you a corrected recording if you want to repost that video.

For those who asked, I'm a live voice writer and an actor. I've worked in radio, including some reading for the Nashville radio station for the blind. I almost went for a more New York accent, but I didn't know exactly how Nigro talked, and I didn't want people to think, a) he had recorded it or, b) I was somehow mocking him. So I went for straight.

I was actually raised in Alabama, and if you listen, it's still in there.
 
LashL said:
But, to date, the evidence is that someone called Larry Silverstein prior to the collapse of WTC7 to tell him that they were not going to be able to save the building, and in the current video under discussion, it is claimed that it was Chief Nigro who made that call.

I don't think the evidence is clear enough to make that determination, and thus my question above as to whether this has ever been verified, or whether it was someone other than Chief Nigro who may have called Mr. Silverstein. Not to ask for him how to fight the fire, of course, but simply to advise him of the state of affairs.
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Another possibility is that it was someone from the media.
 
boloboffin said:
For those who asked, I'm a live voice writer and an actor. I've worked in radio, including some reading for the Nashville radio station for the blind. I almost went for a more New York accent, but I didn't know exactly how Nigro talked, and I didn't want people to think, a) he had recorded it or, b) I was somehow mocking him. So I went for straight.

I was actually raised in Alabama, and if you listen, it's still in there.
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I think you have a very nice voice and agree with your take on the Nigro voice-over.
 
boloboffin said:
Blenderhead, I'll shoot you a corrected recording if you want to repost that video.
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I see no reason to rerecord the voice-over, it works out fine.

Also, thanks to those who replied; I assumed since no one else has been fingered as 'the fire department commander' that Nigro had the greatest likelihood of being the focus of Larry's comment.
 
I'd never heard Fidnee but I knew exactly what it meant when I heard it so I don't think it's a big deal.
 
Re Fidnee: There used to be a bloke here who worked as a tour guide or something in New York, maybe you could ask him. What was his name again?
 
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