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  William Rodriquez, a humble man from Puerto Rico who worked at the
World Trade Center. He looked healthy in spite of suffering from many
9-11 related toxic diseases.
Rodriguez, the last survivor of the North Tower, told of explosions
emanating from the sub-level basement of the tower, prior to the plane
striking the upper floors. His account has been systematically
suppressed by the government, mainstream media and the 9-11 Commission.
William Rodriquez gave an outstanding, sensitive discourse of his
experiences on that fateful morning. He appears to be a genuinely warm,
gentle caring human being and it is easy to believe that his
relationship with his many fellow employees was much more - they were
also his long time friends. Daily, he met with them for breakfast in
the Windows on the World Restaurant on the 106th floor. Nearly two
hundred people, most of William's friends, were in the restaurant that
morning. None of them survived. Not only did he lose his job on 11
September 2001, he lost most of his friends. William would have also
perished had he been in the restaurant that morning but he arrived at
work at 8:30 a.m. rather than his usual time of 8:00 a.m.
William
had worked for the New York Port Authority for about twenty years. He
was in charge of the three stairwells - A, B and C. They were narrow
and without windows. There were also 150 elevators in the building. He
knew the building well. His job included the maintenance of the three
narrow stairwells in the class "A" building - WTC1, the north tower. On
a typical morning, he would have breakfast then begin at the top of the
building and methodically work his way down. Arriving at 8:30 on the
morning of 9-11 he went to the maintenance office located on the first
sublevel, one of six sub-basements beneath ground level. There were a
total of fourteen people in the office at this time. As he was talking
with others, there was a very loud massive explosion which seemed to
emanate from between sub-basement B2 and B3. There were twenty-two
people on B2 sub-basement who also felt and heard that first explosion.
At
first he thought it was a generator that had exploded. But the cement
walls in the office cracked from the explosion. "When I heard the sound
of the explosion, the floor beneath my feet vibrated, the walls started
cracking and everything started shaking." said Rodriguez, who was
crowded together with fourteen other people in the office including
Anthony Saltamachia, supervisor for the American Maintenance Company.
Just
seconds later there was another explosion way above which made the
building oscillate momentarily. This, he was later told, was a plane
hitting the 90th floor. Upon hearing about the plane, he immediately
thought of the people up in the restaurant. Then there were other
explosions just above B1 and individuals started heading for the
loading dock to escape the explosion's resulting rampant fire. When
asked later about those first explosions he said: "I would know if an
explosion was from the bottom or the top of the building." He heard
explosions both before and after the plane hit the tower.
A
fellow worker Felipe David came into the office. "He had been standing
in front of a freight elevator on sub-level 1 about 400 feet from the
office when fire burst out of the elevator shaft, causing his
injuries." The skin on his face had been peeled away by the heat of the
blast and he was horribly burned on thirty-three percent of his body.
"He was burned so badly from the basement explosion that flesh was
hanging from his face and both arms." William asks: "How could a
jetliner hit 90 floors above and burn a man's arms and face to a crisp
in the basement below within seconds of impact?" William led Felipe
David outside to safety. William continued to hear people screaming and
returned to the building in spite of police orders. There were people
encased in elevators. There were people who needed help.
There
was a swooshing sound coming from the freight elevators on B2 and B3.
Water from the fire sprinklers from all of the floors had gone into the
elevator shaft. There were two individuals trapped below who were in
danger of drowning. Rodriguez was able to secure a long enough ladder
to extend into the shaft to facilitate their escape from a watery grave.
He
had possession of just one of the five master keys that opened all of
the stairwell doors at each of the floors in the 110 story building.
The other four key holders were trained for emergencies. They had
already left the building. Firemen from New York City Unit Six arrived.
Each fireman, in addition to protective clothing, had about 70 pounds
of equipment. William, who now had the only key, led the firemen up
stairwell B. Firemen were going up as victims were coming down. The
stairwells were narrow with no windows.
The firemen made it up
to the 27th floor but were exhausted from the burden of their
equipment. As William had ascended up the stairwell he, as well as the
firemen, had heard explosions from the 20th through the 30th floor.
Chunks of the building were falling down all around them and they could
literally hear the building coming down. Yet, the firemen continued to
climb and give aid. After all, they assumed the fire was isolated at
the location where the plane entered.
On the 33rd floor, William
was able to procure some dust masks from a maintenance office. The air
was thick with smoke. On the 33rd floor he found a woman laying on the
floor in a fetal position. She didn't know where to go or what to do.
They had fire drills twice a year but because of employee turnover, not
everyone had a clear view of emergency procedures. While some
individuals intuitively respond appropriately in an emergency, others
are absolutely paralyzed by their fears.
Strangely, while
William was on the 33rd floor he heard lots of very loud noise as if
someone was moving heavy equipment and furniture around on the 34th
floor. The reason this is interesting is that the 34th floor was
completely empty. Elevators did not stop at the 34th floor. It was off
limits due to a construction project. He said that this was the first
time that he felt fear.
They continued to ascend to the 39th
floor. This is as far as William got before he was turned back by the
firefighters. As he began his descent he heard the plane hit the south
tower.
He made it back down to the hole where the front doors
used to be before they were blown out. The bottoms of the elevator
doors were blown partially open. He couldn't breath, his eyes burned,
his leg was burned. Someone yelled: "Don't look back!" William looked
back momentarily then raced for the first cover he saw - a fire truck.
That is where he was found. Pulverized concrete mixed with asbestos and
smoke created a dark cloud of doom. Flashlights were necessary. William
received temporary medical assistance and then went to work trying to
find survivors.
The mangled bloodied bodies of the jumpers
blanketed the ground. William will never forget the anguish he felt or
the sight of this senseless horrific carnage. This was evidence of
desperation - people desperate to escape possible death by suffocation
or by fire chose death by jumping. The fires were contained and
isolated. Much of the flame actually burned outside of the building
upon impact. The fire was out - even at the giant gaping hole where the
plane breached the building where people worked, talked with friends
and felt relatively safe.
William Rodriguez saved lives that
day. Currently he is attempting to alert the public to what actually
happened. He is a courageous witness to those terrible events. The
controlled censored media doesn't really appear willing to report the
real news but rather they promote whatever the propaganda ministry
wants the masses to believe. It takes continuous courage to go against
such opposition but that is the kind of man he is. He says that he owes
it to his friends - those that were slaughtered for some covert
political agenda.
William spent hours testifying before the 9-11
Commission behind closed doors. His testimony as an eye witness does
not appear anywhere in the 576 page report. But after all, Bush told us
who did it, so why bother to examine the evidence or talk with the
witnesses. The only agency that was allowed to investigate the
circumstances of the event was FEMA.
The National Institute of
Safety and Technology (NIST), an independent investigative group
ignored his plea to tell his story. He contacted them four times but
never got a response. NIST was funded by the government which gives you
a pretty good idea of just how subjective their findings were. They
were paid $35 million dollars and the investigation lasted two years.
The taxpayers certainly did not get their money's worth.
William
Rodriguez also contacted the FBI who never followed up. The media was
not interested. CNN spent a day filming and interviewing him at his
home but when it was shown the following day it was thoroughly edited.
Some reporters have subtly warned Rodriguez to keep quiet as he could
jeopardize his life. They said "You do not know who you are dealing
with!" He already looked death in the face and he will probably
continue to courageously tell his story. He is speaking the truth and
he is speaking it for his friends. He says: "I am living on borrowed
time since I probably should be dead anyway."
William Rodriguez
is the lead plaintiff in a RICO lawsuit filed against George W.
(warmonger) Bush and others. He is alleging conspiracy to commit murder
and other crimes. So not only is he speaking for his friends but he is
seeking justice for all of the victims, both those who died and those
who were injured.
The World Trade Center twin towers were built
from 1968 to 1972. To fireproof the building a mixture of asbestos and
cement was sprayed during the construction. However, this fireproofing
technique was banned in 1971 by the New York City Council. By then
there was already hundreds of tons of this material in the building.
Later, some of this material was removed yet there was still about 100
tons of asbestos remaining. Asbestos was used in other areas that would
not leave the harmful residue unless there were extraordinary
circumstances such as those that occurred on 9-11.
William
Rodriguez says: "I have tried to tell my story to everybody, but nobody
wants to listen. It is very strange what is going on here in supposedly
the most democratic country in the world. In my home country of Puerto
Rico and all the other Latin American countries, I have been allowed to
tell my story uncensored. But here, I can't even say a word." Thank
goodness for the alternative media where one may still discover the
truth.
On 11 September 2001 our defense systems failed, NORAD
failed, our president, intent on a goat story, failed to immediately
respond; the twin towers failed - they collapsed - the only known steel
frame buildings in history claimed to have failed because of fire.
Other steel frame buildings have been known to burn for hours and hours
yet they did not collapse. Of course, we do not know the cause of their
failure as the evidence was rendered unavailable for investigation -
either immediately sold or otherwise withheld. There was also the
failure of the local authorities to warn the people about the toxic air
that burned their lungs and blanketed their homes and would create life
long health problems. They were told that there was no problem.
After
9-11 there was a failure to discover exactly who made millions on all
of the put options on American Airlines and United Airlines. That was
another failure. So many failures and I haven't heard of one person
reprimanded for inefficiency. However, there are those who were
promoted.
However, there were also great successes:
The
firemen who gave their lives - crushed in the totally unexpected and
unusual building collapses. There were medical people who tenderly
treated the trauma struck victims. The policemen did not fail and the
thousands of volunteers who searched for the dead and dying did not
fail. There were search and rescue dogs who did not fail - many of whom
have since died of cancer. And William Rodriguez did not fail. He acted
appropriately -just like a man of integrity and courage should act. He
did not hesitate. Unlike others who should have responded immediately,
he sprang into action and made selfless sacrifices for others.
Sources: 9-11 LIES UNDER FIRE, William Rodriguez, a 9-11 Survivor
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