BY GLENN P. CORBETT
As the scope ofthe World Trade Center (WTC) tragedycame into focus in the hours following the attacks, I wondered what happened to the towers. Why did they come down so quickly? What role did the construction play? What brought the towers down—the planes or the fire? How many people had been evacuated? On and on, the questions kept coming.
This was the largest high-rise fire in American history. This was also the largest structural collapse in world history. I thought that a comprehensive investigation would soon be under way—a master plan, multiple teams of investigators, an army of specialists documenting the scene and securing the evidence. Unfortunately, I was very wrong.
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