Here are some comments posted by a retired firefighter regarding larry silverstein's "pull it" comment 3 years ago.
"Thats NOT what he is saying. Building 6 was pulled with cables. The demolition term 'pull-it' means that. If Silverstein were using a demolition term in the interview, thats HOW they would have demolished building 7. He wasn't using a demolition term. He was refering to recomendations from firefighters who were inside building 7 performing an objective of putting out fires. Due to the damage, the FIRE CHIEF made a decision to 'pull-it' (the objective). Silverstein was refering to that"
"Pull It" to many firefighters, especially to those oldtimers like me that served long before portable radios became popular and affordable means to cease all interior operations"
-firefighterforums
"The reason they used the expressions before radios was because when firefighters need to evacuate a building and had no radios, the firefighters would pull on the hose. That signaled the firefighters inside to evacuate immediately. They just happen to still use the same terminology. When an order to 'pull it' was given then, it meant pull the hose, now, it means radio in and get them out"
truthers response:"there were no mention of 'hoses' at any time.You could not 'pull' a hose under pressure that's so stupid.How about shouting 'pull'?Nice try but you people that believe this official crap are just coming up with more and more ludicrous explanations
you think that a fire team is going to cut off the water supply to a fireman so that they can 'pull' the hose?I think you should get a thesaurus and see how many explanations for 'pull' you can squeeze out.Don't forget the one that refers to controlled building demolition"
stratocaster539 3 years ago
Reply by firefighter: "That is THE reason. They dont literally PULL THE HOSE anymore now that they have radios. THATS where the terminology comes from. 'pull it' is a firefighter term AS WELL as a demolition term, however, pull-it in demolition terms has NOTHING to do with explosives. It means to literally attach cables to the building and PULL IT DOWN. That obviously did not happen because Larry Silversteins quote was put into demolition context when he meant it in a fire-fighting context. PERIOD"
lgradyl 3 years ago
you can find these comments and more at this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csn6Em87eEE
makes sense to me.