These are some of the final recorded FDNY radio communications from inside the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
In the final minutes before the tower collapsed, firefighters were still climbing toward the impact zone, searching for survivors and calling for more men to come up.
Battalion Chief Orio Palmer had reached the 78th floor. Lt. Joseph Leavey of Ladder 15 was climbing toward him. With barely two minutes remaining, Palmer called Battalion 9 Chief Edward Geraghty and told him they had access to the floors above.
Geraghty's response: “All right, I'm on my way up, Orio.”
Seconds later, a Ladder 15 firefighter radioed that he was trapped in an elevator shaft: “We're chopping through the wall to get out.”
The radio signal disappeared shortly afterward. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m.
Orio Palmer, Joseph Leavey and Edward Geraghty were killed that morning. They were still going up while others were trying to get out.
Note: Some images used in this clip are unverified. For the sake of accuracy, I have not attempted to identify those individuals.
Modern progressive culture conditioned an entire generation to view children as burdensome obstacles. Decades of radical individualism convinced women that immediate consumer gratification outweighs sacred maternal duty. When toxic self-absorption erodes biological instinct, an innocent baby becomes an enemy standing between a narcissist and an iced coffee. It exposes the utter moral rot of a society that traded family for pure convenience.
BREAKING: Kevin Reddington speaks out following the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, defending his client after 7 weeks of court proceedings.
"I’m representing a woman who is a fantastic, wonderful individual. This woman is so brave, so awesome. Every day she came in this courthouse, stood tall, no pun intended."
"The poor thing is in a wheelchair. As we all know for the rest of her life. And sat there through seven weeks of a trial where nobody had anything bad to say about her except for the two prosecutors and apparently Tim Cruz."
Black Woman is outraged over how Black Americans are acting over the Karmelo Anthony verdict
“I'm not gonna lie to you, being Black right now is completely embarrassing. You ***** are some of the most vile, inhumane species that have ever graced the earth. For days, I've watched Black people jump around like monkeys, act a belligerent fool, act a whole entire nut over a decision that somebody chose to do. And now y'all are out here harming innocent white people in the name of Karmelo Anthony”
She gives a long speech about how the perception of black people is completely the fault of themselves
This is a great moment of someone very smart and not afraid to call out the reality of what’s taking place
“The behavior is still the same. We have not learned nothing. Because we have learned nothing, we are continuing to rot as a nation”
WOAH 😮
Austin Metcalf father SNAPS 💥 on Karmelo Anthony parents‼️
Jeff Metcalf says Drew and Kayla Anthony are complete cowards and exposes that they abandoned their son immediately after the verdict came in so he had to face sentencing alone.
He then calls them out for the grifters that they are. He’s been under a gag order this entire time so I can only imagine how relieving it is to finally call out their bs.
He also talks about how he tried to make peace and pray with the family but instead they treated him horribly because they wanted to play victim and make the entire situation about race.
He makes a great point by pointing out that he politely left their press conference when asked to leave unlike their son who stabbed Austin in the chest when he was asked to leave Austin’s teams tent.
Lastly he lays into the baby shaking fake Minister Dominique Alexander who did nothing but make this entire situation worse for everyone involved right from the get go.
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
The U.S. Senate has just rejected a motion to add the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation on a 48-50 vote.
Republicans who voted against it:
-Thom Tillis
-Lisa Murkowski
-Mitch McConnell
-Susan Collins
The Golden Girls, but with today’s hair and styling.
From big 80s perms to sleek, fresh looks, Blanche is out here serving main character energy, Rose looks like your cool aunt who does Pilates, and Sophia and Dorothy still delivering one liners with the best of them.
Do you think the comedy would still hit the same today?
This woman went to a new doctor because she’d been feeling awful — exhausted, no energy, and just generally terrible. Her previous bloodwork had shown high liver enzymes and high cholesterol, but no one had really dug into why.
Within minutes of meeting her, the new doctor looked at her and asked one simple question: “Do you drink energy drinks?”
She admitted she had one every single day — Celsius, Alani, Bloom, Monster, whatever she could get her hands on. She knew they weren’t great for her, but she drank them anyway because she was “fighting for her life” trying to get through the day.
The doctor told her it wasn’t the caffeine that was the problem. It was all the other synthetic ingredients in those drinks that her body couldn’t properly process. Those were what was throwing off her liver enzymes and affecting her cholesterol.
She’s now on day three without them… and she already says she feels so much better.
Quick PSA: Those energy drinks might be doing more damage than we realize.
Have you ever stopped doing something you thought was "helping" you, only to realize you actually felt better without it?