How many toxic buildings are there within NYC?
Who at FDNY has been thinking about toxic buildings?
- How shall FDNY go about inspecting toxic buildings?
- How shall FDNY fight fires in toxic buildings?
Who at FDNY is supposed to figure it all out: the bottom of the FDNY or the top of FDNY?
Since 9/11/2001, when the ground zero buildings were made toxic, who at FDNY has been thinking about how to inspect and fight fires in them?
Was anyone at FDNY trying to figure out how to inspect toxic buildings during the remainder of 2001?
Was anyone at FDNY thinking about toxic buildings in 2002?
How about in 2003?
How about in 2004?
in 2005?
2006?
2007?
If no-one at FDNY was trying to figure out how to inspect toxic buildings during 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007, how can FDNY blame Captain Peter Bosco who arrived at Ten House in late December 2006, early January 2007?
If no-one at the top of FDNY could figure out how to inspect toxic buildings, how can they blame Captain Pete Bosco who is, relatively speaking, at the bottom of FDNY?
If FDNY Commissioner Nick Scoppetta didn't figure it out, how can FDNY blame Captain Peter Bosco?
If Chief of Operations Cassano didn't figure it out, how can FDNY blame Captain Peter Bosco?
If Deputy Chief of Operations McNally didn't figure it out, how can FDNY blame Captain Peter Bosco?
If the other Big Chiefs at FDNY Headquarters didn't figure it out, how can FDNY blame Captain Peter Bosco?
Yet, FDNY is blaming Captain Peter Bosco and two chiefs for failing to do what the Fire Commissioner, the Chief of Operations, the Deputy Chief of Operations and all of the other Big Chiefs at FDNY Headquarters failed to do?
Sounds like scapegoating to me!
Has Mayor Bloomberg asked FDNY Commissioner yet, "Did FDNY have a plan in place to inspect toxic buildings?" If he did, why is Captain Peter Bosco and the two chiefs still on the "sidelines". If not, why hasn't Bloomberg put this question to Scoppetta?
What was Bloomberg's reaction when he learns there is 100-200 toxic buildings within the City of New York and FDNY still does not have a plan to inspect them or fight fires in them?
Has Bloomberg asked Scoppetta how come it is taking so long to figure this all out?
Surely the existence of toxic buidlings became known to FDNY at least on 9/11/2001?
In a prior report by Marcia Kramer she quotes a testy Mayor Bloomberg:
"Can't conceive of how anybody thinks we should leave anybody in a position where there's a question as to whether or not they were taking the steps to keep the city safe," Bloomberg said. "That's what their job is."
Bloomberg set this standard. Does it only apply to scapegoats or to the top of FDNY as well?
Keep in mind that we are talking about a general FDNY wide plan to inspect toxic buildings. We are not merely talking about a particular SOP to inspect 130 Liberty Street. The failure to have a particular plan for 130 Liberty Street raises further questions about the very top of the FDNY hierarchy. This entry addresses the lack of a plan to inspect and fight fires in toxic buildings in general throughout the city of New York.
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Critics said they worried that workers inside the building would not be sufficiently protected. "Workers are essentially, and unfortunately, the canaries for the community," said David M. Newman of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, a nonprofit coalition including labor unions. See NY Times Article, Critics Question Safety of Plan to Raze Contaminated Site, by DAVID W. DUNLAP Published 1/26/2005
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