Originally Posted by willravel

The point is that it was shipped off and melted down so quickly. This is the first time in history that a steel reinforced building has fallen due to fire. You'd think that they'd want to take a look. FEMA had something like 12 hours before it started getting shipped off, and most of that investigation was going on when rescue workers with buckets were trying to get rubble off bodies.

Had I been the head of FEMA, I would have requestewd at least a few weeks to study some of the wrekage. Yes, clear the roads. Yes, make sure that the air is clean and that the disruptions are cleared.