🔴9/11 25th Anniversary Interview with Glenn Corbett - Recording Session March 5, 2026
Topics Discussed:
-Glenn recounts the morning of September 11th and his efforts to support the first responders and victims in the following days
-Pre 9/11 high rise fire fighting practices
-Glenn describes Ground Zero and the search and rescue teams efforts to recreate departments after the loss of first responders
-The privately owned boats that came across the river to help people
-Glenn recalls stories of friends who were at Ground Zero
-The risk First Responder self deployers had going to Ground Zero
-The construction and collapse of the Twin Towers
-Talk about the fires in World Trade Center Building 7
-Story behind how Glenn got involved in the Skyscraper Safety Campaign with Sally Regenhard
-Issue with building codes and the struggle to get them changed
-Problem with 9/11 conspiracy theories and theorists
-Discussion how the world we live in now was shaped by 9/11
-The 9/11 memorial and the efforts made to get it turned over to the National Park Service
-Comparing Gettysburg to 9/11 Ground Zero
Show References:
-Boatlift: An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience - 2011 Documentary
-World Trade Center - 2006 Movie
-The World Trade Center Bombing: Report and Analysis, February 1993
GovInfo (.gov)https://www.govinfo.govPDFUS Fire Administration/Technical Report Series - The World Trade Center Bombing
-Skyscraper Safety Campaign
Skyscraper Safety Campaignhttp://www.skyscrapersafety.orgSkyscraper Safety Campaign
-The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
-The Unthinkable Happened: The Fall of the World Trade Center Towers - Charlie Thornton
-Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - 2003-2010 TV Show
-Brain Clark & Stanley Praimnath South Tower Survivor's Stories:
9/11: One Day in America - 2021 Documentary
Brian Clark Survivor Story:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/above.html#:~:text=Brian%20Clark%2C%20an%20executive%20vice%20president%20at,of%20the%20man%20whose%20life%20he%20saved.
-Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 – An Authoritative Political Biography of Leadership Mythology, Security Failures, and Accountability - Wayne Barrett & Dan Collins
-102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers - Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn
-Radio Silence FDNY: The Betrayal of New Yorks Bravest - John Joyce & Bill Bowen
-Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero - Jay D. Aronson
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