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Who dropped the ball and when was it dropped?

The evidence has firmly convinced FreePetey that the only "ball" LMDC handed off to FDNY in the deconstruction - decontamination of 130 Liberty Street was solely that of emergency responder. LMDC gave "the ball" to others to be inspectors not to FDNY. Because LMDC was in complete and absolute charge of the deconstruction - decontamination of 130 Liberty Street according to State of New York law (Click Here), LMDC's allocation of responsibilities is unchallengeable (Click Here). Any City of New York law that says otherwise yields to the overarching power of LMDC and the law of the State of New York (Click Here).  Hence, we have repeatedly called upon the FDNY Commissioner to give the speech (Click Here).

Yet, putting this aside for the moment, if we ask ourselves who dropped the ball and when was it dropped, the evidence clearly tells us that:

1. the person who dropped the ball was the FDNY Commissioner himself, Nicholas Scoppetta and
   
2. the date when the ball was dropped was many years before Captain Peter Bosco arrived at the Ten House.

 

Before 9/11/2001, 130 Liberty Street was an ordinary building.  It could be inspected by the local firehouse in ordinary work clothes as required by internal FDNY regulations (Click Here). After 9/11/2001, 130 Liberty Street became a special needs building. It was then contaminated by noxious and deadly toxins. Inspections could no longer be done in ordinary work clothes.  The contaminants that turned ordinary buildings into special needs buildings on 9/11/2001 required the wearing of the proper respiratory and dermal protection. An update was needed to the FDNY regulation that mandated inspections to be done in ordinary work clothes (Click Here).

Who was responsible for updating FDNY's internal regulations? It surely wasn't the captain of the local firehouse.  It was the FDNY Commissioner himself. FDNY Commissioner Scoppetta was in charge of updating the internal regulations of FDNY.  When, do you think, Scoppetta updated FDNY's internal regulation that mandated the wearing of ordinary work clothes during building inspections (Click Here)? When, do you think, Scoppetta updated this regulation to take into account the new reality of WTC contaminated buildings? Do you think Scoppetta updated

1. between 9/11/2001 and 12/31/2001 ?
2. in 2002 ?
3. in 2003 ?
4. in 2004 ?
5. in 2005 ?
6. in 2006 ?
7. in 2007 ?
   

What do you think?

Would you be surprised if I told you that Scoppetta did not update FDNY's internal regulation mandating the wearing of ordinary work clothes in special needs buildings between 9/11/2001 and 12/31/2001?

Would you be surprised if I told you that Scoppetta did not update FDNY's internal regulation mandating the wearing of ordinary work clothes in special needs buildings in 2002?

Would you be surprised if I told you that Scoppetta did not update FDNY's internal regulation mandating the wearing of ordinary work clothes in special needs buildings in 2003?

Would you be surprised if I told you that Scoppetta did not update FDNY's internal regulation mandating the wearing of ordinary work clothes in special needs buildings in 2004?

Would you be surprised if I told you that Scoppetta did not update FDNY's internal regulation mandating the wearing of ordinary work clothes in special needs buildings in 2005?

Would you be surprised if I told you that Scoppetta did not update FDNY's internal regulation mandating the wearing of ordinary work clothes in special needs buildings in 2006?

Would you be surprised if I told you that Scoppetta did not update FDNY's internal regulation mandating the wearing of ordinary work clothes in special needs buildings in 2007?

 

Perhaps Scoppetta needed more time?

Perhaps a full decade is needed for Scoppetta to updateFDNY's internal regulations to account for the creation of special needs buildings on 9/11/2001.

What is the result of the inexcusable failure of FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta to update FDNY's internal regulation? An attempt to update the internal regulation would have snowballed into an avalanche. It would not be enough for Scoppetta to simply change the regulation to read  "Firefighters shall wear the proper respiratory and dermal protection when inspecting special needs buildings at ground zero." The definition of proper respiratory and dermal protection would have had to be defined. Moreover, what is proper respiratory and dermal protection depends on the performance of a "hazard assessment" to "identify exposures and establish controls" (Click Here). Then the proper respiratory and dermal protection would have had to be supplied to those who would be using it.  They would have had to be trained on how to don it and how to doff it.

 

They would also have had to be instructed on decontamination procedures. Lo and behold, had Scoppetta updated the internal FDNY regulation on what to wear during inspections of special needs buildings, everything would have been figured out and been in place by the time Captain Peter Bosco arrived at the TEN HOUSE sometime in late December 2006 early January 2007.

Who dropped the ball and when was it dropped? isn't it obvious?