"THE HEROIC FIREFIGHTERS"

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CNN TRANSCRIPT - LARRY KING LIVE - September 12, 2001


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KING: Mr. Grillo, James, what was it like when you got there?

JAMES GRILLO, NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT: It was terror, shear terror. Bodies were falling out of the sky. They were jumping off the 105th floor and they were landing all over the street and the sidewalk. There was fear in everybody's eyes.

KING: You also saw people jumping out of buildings, right?

GRILLO: Yes. They were jumping out from everywhere from the 70th floor above. It was horrible. I saw...

KING: And what were you doing?

GRILLO: I was trying to avoid looking up and watching it, Mr. King. It was horrible. I saw dozens of people jumping.

KING: Now, how did you get hurt, James?

GRILLO: I was -- my assignment with Ladder 24, the company I'm assigned to, we were supposed to go into building No. 2, the south tower and make our way into tower No. 1, the north tower. And we were caught in the collapse in the lobby of tower No. 2, the south tower.

KING: Boy.

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If you can bear it, read the whole thing. It's quite something... :rolleyes:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... kl.00.html

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KING: Now, how did you get hurt, James?

GRILLO: ...we were caught in the collapse in the lobby of tower No. 2, the south tower.

KING: Boy.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... kl.00.html

Unbearable!

He never gets to explain how he survived a skyscraper on the head. Maybe helmets were tougher than that flimsy WTC steel.

Can't find an image of Jimmy Grillo on the internets, but from the YT comments seems he's in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgMrDS4p ... re=related

Can someone verify?

Defense commentor 'chegstick' writes six days ago

If you want to check Grillo's story yourself why not take a camcorder to NYC and visit him and his colleagues at the Fire Department? He qualified as a Ladder Company Chauffeur Class 1 after passing a course in the care and operation of Ladder Trucks on January 19th 2010, and to the best of my knowledge is still with Ladder 24.

There's a recent note to him asking where he gets the info, but there's no reply yet.

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Jiminy Grillo, of course ;)

OK, Chegly confirms in page two of comments on this other location for the same vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgMrDS4p ... re=related

“The guy on the left is Tyrone Johnson, and the one in the middle is James Grillo.”

Should I take his word for it? No, but either way, what a contrived piece of horse sh#t is this vid and blondy’s performance in it. Talc up, demonstrate how that radio is giving you gip, and don’t touch that make up, it’s hanging on by a thread. Rolling!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgMrDS4p ... re=related

“The guy on the left is Tyrone Johnson, and the one in the middle is James Grillo.”

Should I take his word for it? No, but either way, what a contrived piece of horse sh#t is this vid and blondy’s performance in it. Talc up, demonstrate how that radio is giving you gip, and don’t touch that make up, it’s hanging on by a thread. Rolling!

LOL...at 0:57 Bloody Blondy talks in his silly radio transmitter ...AND WE HEAR HIM CRISP AND LOUD - AS IF WE WERE AT THE RECEIVING END OF IT ! :lol:

Don't these fakers have a friggin' clue about audio matters?

The lip syncs are off too. Pay attention at :

0:22 "And on the way upstairs, the whole fucking plane(?) blew". (After "blew" lips keep moving.)

and at

1:35 "Anyone of these fucking buildings can blow up". (After "blow up" lips keep moving)

Audio clues and lip sync detection can be tricky things - but with some practice you will be able to see if a given video has an original, live/on location-captured soundtrack or not.

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Repetition of limited facts, no straying, no detail. Like Betty Ong’s efforts to keep five facts rolling for a five minute tape.

Male Interviewer - What happened?
Tyrone - He was in an explosion. He was in the lobby of the fucking sh? ds? the third explosion, the whole lobby just collapsed on us.
Female i'viewer - What was it like? [!]
T - Horrible. Horrible.
Grillo - ‘Was like hell. You don’t wanna know. [How wrong can you be?]
T - The whole building just collapsed on us ? inside the lobby [points]
MI - Was that a secondary explosion?
T - Yes it was
G - That was the [gestures ‘2’]
T - Yea, definitely a secondary explosion. We was inside waiting to go upstairs, and on the way upstairs the whole fucking thing blew. ?just collapsed on everyone inside the lobby.
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T - I don’t know about the first but I know the second one ? it was terrible. And then there was a third one after that one. [Grillo radio noise] Everyone was inside the building waiting to go upstairs, and it just let loose, everything just let loose inside the building. [Fact-free zone]
MI - So what you’re telling me is that the plane or whatever hit the building, then a secondary explosion ?
T - There was like three explosions after that. We came in after the fire? we came in after the fire was going on already. We was in the staging area inside the building, waiting to go upstairs, then the explosions [Grillo loud radio speech] and the whole lobby collapsed on the lobby inside?. Everybody just tried to make their way out.

Off screen - [blah blah] trying to help all the brothers?

T - Yep. A lot of people trapped inside

Bullshitter - I was sitting in the Brooklyn Navy yard [?] ? We watched the first explosion, and as we’re watching the buildings explode we saw a black, very large airplane fly right into the second building, came out of the south, right in front of our eyes. Just? so surreal, it looked like a movie set.
MI - Second and third explosions also, right?
BS - We were in the building for the third one? collapsed.
Grillo - [Sudden animation, now with empty cup prop] ?People were on the stand [?] There may be more. Any one of these focken buildings could blow up. This ain’t done yet. [Head down, clears throat like he’s swallowed Towercon powder].

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Erykah Badu - Call Tyrone (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVSIPHQdQT0

Ha! I'll ask chegstick if the lads have been hangin with the Diva.

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chegstick replied honorably to YT request: Grillo's upgrade to 'chauffeur' gets a mention in this PDF. http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/insider/re ... 6_2009.pdf

And this link to longer version of film, Grillo faffing with stranger's mobile to call his sister - line busy - before the interviewer asks what happened. He confirms his name at the end - first name 'Jimmy'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYlEVCpG_0

Maybe he's a fireman (his acting skill supports the idea) but fireservice is military, marines give them training, maybe make up some of their number.

Frontline Afghanistan or hoax movie?
Hoax movie, please.

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I'm having trouble with this "photograph", it seems a little Gulliver in Lilliput to me. Anyone?

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Brian - I would be more concerned with how this lady has managed to make it to a rooftop without attracting even one spec of dust! Or is that a green screen she is looking at?

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