Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11

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Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 is a new book chronicling the first responders who worked nonstop to save those at the Pentagon.

Granted unprecedented access to the major players in the valiant response efforts, authors Patrick Creed and Rick Newman take us step-by-step through the harrowing minutes, hours, and days following the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon’s western façade, providing fascinating personal stories of the firefighters and rescuers.

"Pentagon firefighters Alan Wallace and Mark Skipper had just learned the shocking news that planes had struck the World Trade Center when they saw something equally inconceivable: a twin-engine jetliner flying straight at them."

http://www.amazon.com/Firefight-Ins...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211820385&sr=8-1

Sounds like this book is going to make the Pentagon "no-planers" and "fly-overers" even more nuts since it will name more names of people that actually saw AA77 in the wreckage and explain the structural damage to the building due to the crash and fires.

Here an NPR "Fresh Air" interview with the authors and an excerpt:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90696597

Who knew that the Pentagon's roof had insulation made from horse hair?

This book will be released tomorrow.