alienentity
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A heavy man like Jennings, who gets swollen knees from walking stairs, walks at most 4 floors down a minute. More likely 3.
23rd to 6th is 17 floors.
Or 4 to 6 minutes.
They made a few calls.
Evacuation of WTC7 was ordered no sooner than 9:00
If they made a call where the man on the other end told them to evacuate, that call was not made and finished before 9:01
Now Hess and Jennings give the elevators a try - and find them non-functional. So they walk to the stairs. Something they have never done before.
Descent starts no sooner than 9:02.
They arrive at the 6th floor no sooner than 9:06.
3 minutes too late for your story.
But it is totally unclear if they really arrived at the OEM at or even before 9:00.
Their story makes a whole lot more sense if you assume it all happened much later, and they were at the 6th floor at 9:59.
Time flies sometimes, ya know...
Good posts above. Just a little addition - the evacuation of the OEM was not ordered until later, which makes perfect sense: regular employees were not working in the OEM, so would be asked to leave the building.