Yes, "pull it" is a demolition term.
Ten bucks says that the slingers of bunk, in any case,
1) won't be able to find a single reference where the phrase "pull it" refers to an operation involving pulling personnel.
2) will ever explain why an operation that, in the end, had no personnel in it would need to be "pulled".
But of course, as their last resort, they can always just claim another 9/11 "first".
You’re wrong on both counts.
From Firehouse Magazine (April 2002) Deputy Chief Peter Hayden Division1 - 33 years FDNY interview,
Silverstein pull it comment (September 2002)
http://www.firehouse.com/article/10567885/deputy-chief-peter-hayden?page=2
"... but also we were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse.
Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13,
and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to
collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about
three floors. It came down about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but by about 2
o’clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse.
Firehouse: Was there heavy fire in there right away?
Hayden: No, not right away, and that’s probably why it stood for so long
because it took a while for that fire to develop. It was a heavy body of
fire in there and then we didn’t make any attempt to fight it. That was just
one of those wars we were just going to lose. We were concerned about the
collapse of a 47-story building there. We were worried about additional
collapse there of what was remaining standing of the towers and the
Marriott, so
we started pulling the people back after a couple of hours of
surface removal and searches along the surface of the debris.
We started to
pull guys back because we were concerned for their safety.
...
Firehouse: Chief Nigro said they made a collapse zone and wanted everybody
away from number 7— did you have to get all of those people out?
Hayden: Yeah,
we had to pull everybody back. It was very difficult. We had
to be very forceful in getting the guys out. They didn’t want to come out.
There were guys going into areas that I wasn’t even really comfortable with,
because of the possibility of secondary collapses. We didn’t know how stable
any of this area was.
We pulled everybody back probably by 3 or 3:30 in the
afternoon. We said, this building is going to come down, get back. It came
down about 5 o’clock or so, but we had everybody backed away by then. At
that point in time, it seemed like a somewhat smaller event, but under any
normal circumstances, that’s a major event, a 47-story building collapsing.
It seemed like a firecracker after the other ones came down, but I mean
that’s a big building, and when it came down, it was quite an event. But
having gone through the other two, it didn’t seem so bad. But that’s what we
were concerned about.
We had said to the guys, we lost as many as 300 guys.
We didn’t want to lose any more people that day.
Silverstein vindicated.
Your options:
1) Admit you were wrong and pay the ten bucks to Chris Mohr for his testing. Contact him for payment.
2) Weasel out of it.
