The building, its staff and Washington, D.C.-area
firefighters had several factors in their favor on 9/11.
We saw
how the Twin Towers were reduced to “ground zero.” Thirty-five minutes after
the second plane hit in New York, a Boeing 757 flew low over Arlington, Va., at
more than 500 miles an hour and crashed into the first and second floors of the
Pentagon, a decidedly low-rise building, in fact, the largest low-rise building
in the world.