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Begin forwarded message: Date: July 10, 2005 6:24:57 AM PDT Subject: 9/11 kin again seek probe of FDNY radio problems
If you will recall, hero Giuliani was the only witness booed and denounced as a liar at the 9/11 hearings by family members. They allege that the City knew the FDNY radios did not work for years before 9/11 and that Giuliani had a corrupt financial deal with their manufacturer, Motorola...........RL
Staten Island Advance
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1120223809181910.xml
9/11 kin again seek probe of FDNY radio problems
Widow of West Brighton assistant chief, others speak at Capitol Hill news briefing
Friday, July 01, 2005
By TERENCE J. KIVLAN
WASHINGTON -- Sept. 11 family members and their supporters again are urging a congressional probe of radio problems at Ground Zero and the role they may have played in the deaths of 343 New York City firefighters there.
Ever since Assistant Chief Gerard Barbara died in Tower 2, "I have felt an obligation to become his voice," said his widow, Joanne, at a Capitol Hill briefing yesterday.
Mrs. Barbara, a West Brighton resident, argued it was an open question whether alleged radio failures were due to negligence and incompetence on the part of top Fire Department officials or whether "someone had something to gain."
At his command post in Tower 2, her husband had to go looking for an operable radio after the first one he had failed to function, she said.
"This was not just a glitch but a waste of needed and precious time," she said.
Her husband called her from the scene when he arrived, Mrs. Barbara said, and told her he didn't know how many lives could be saved in the building and that he wasn't even sure that the firefighters he had just sent upstairs could hear his messages.
"When the nation was under attack, firefighters did not turn their backs on America," she said. "I urge Congress not to turn its back on the firefighters."
Battalion Chief Jack Joyce, a 20-year veteran of the department, said senior fire officials were aware the radios purchased in early 2001 were deficient but "lied about it."
"Is someone being protected?" asked Joyce. "The families of 9/11 have a right to know."
Congressional hearings on the Sept. 11 radio issue were backed at the briefing by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan) and Diane Watson (D-Calif.).
"Literally hundreds could have been saved if the communications system had worked properly," said Ms. Maloney.
"If we can't find a way to give [firefighters] radios that work, then we don't deserve to be called public servants," said Ms. Watson.
Terence J. Kivlan is Washington correspondent for the Advance. He may be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED].
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