Rescue and Recovery at Ground Zero with Glenn Corbett

🔴9/11 25th Anniversary Interview with Glenn Corbett  - Recording Session March 5, 2026 Topics Discussed:  -Glenn recounts the morning of September 11th and his efforts to support the first responders and victims in the following days  -Pre 9/11 high rise fire fighting practices  -Glenn describes Ground Zero and the search and rescue teams efforts to recreate departments after the loss of first responders  -The privately owned boats that came across the river to help people  -Glenn recalls stories of friends who were at Ground Zero -The risk First Responder self deployers had going to Ground Zero  -The construction and collapse of the Twin Towers  -Talk about the fires in World Trade Center Building 7  -Story behind how Glenn got involved in the Skyscraper Safety Campaign with Sally Regenhard -Issue with building codes and the struggle to get them changed  -Problem with 9/11 conspiracy theories and theorists  -Discussion how the world we live in now was shaped by 9/11  -The 9/11 memorial and the efforts made to get it turned over to the National Park Service  -Comparing Gettysburg to 9/11 Ground Zero  Show References: -Boatlift: An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience - 2011 Documentary  -World Trade Center - 2006 Movie -The World Trade Center Bombing: Report and Analysis, February 1993 GovInfo (.gov)https://www.govinfo.govPDFUS Fire Administration/Technical Report Series - The World Trade Center Bombing -Skyscraper Safety Campaign Skyscraper Safety Campaignhttp://www.skyscrapersafety.orgSkyscraper Safety Campaign -The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States -The Unthinkable Happened: The Fall of the World Trade Center Towers - Charlie Thornton -Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - 2003-2010 TV Show -Brain Clark & Stanley Praimnath South Tower Survivor's Stories:     9/11: One Day in America - 2021 Documentary Brian Clark Survivor Story:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/above.html#:~:text=Brian%20Clark%2C%20an%20executive%20vice%20president%20at,of%20the%20man%20whose%20life%20he%20saved. -Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 – An Authoritative Political Biography of Leadership Mythology, Security Failures, and Accountability - Wayne Barrett & Dan Collins -102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers - Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn  -Radio Silence FDNY: The Betrayal of New Yorks Bravest - John Joyce & Bill Bowen -Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero - Jay D. Aronson Support the Show:  Addressing Gettysburg Patreon: Join Today! www.patreon.comAddressing Gettysburg  Grab some merch: https://heritage-depot.myshopify.com/  Get yer Little Ground Top and start your day the Gettysburg way: www.addressinggettysburg.com/cafe Donate to The Digital History Pioneers Foundation: www.dhpioneers.com  Get all your Gettysburg and Civil War books at For the Historian - Mention Addressing Gettysburg to get 20% off www.forthehistorian.webstoreplace.com