The Accident that Saved Millions

Before I post this, I must tell you that this is NOT a timeline unless it has to be. So here goes.

On September 11, 2001 a strange occurance happened in both towers. While a janitor was sweeping a floor, he hit the fire alarm causes that tower to evacutate. Right after they were all done evactuating, planes hit the towers. Lukily, most of the people were out of it when it did happen. Tell me, how could this unlikely accident change history and save millions?
 

Typo

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umm, there weren't millions of people in the towers.

Well, I guess insurance company just saved millions.
 
umm, there weren't millions of people in the towers.

Well, I guess insurance company just saved millions.

Well, if he counts lives lost in the wars following 9/11 maybe...

Even then; taken all together it'd be less than a million, I think.

Saved thousands?

Sorry about that. I just knew that it was a lot of people. But seriously though, how would this change history more people surviving 9/11? The war would still take place, I think. What else might happen?
 
Gents,

This is a non-starter I'm afraid.

Aside from the nonsense about "millions", simply hitting a fire alarm with a mop handle isn't going to evacuate the Twin Towers. If causing an evacuation were that easy, there would have been multiple evacuations each and every day as people bumped into things, played pranks, and went about their usual brain dead work days.

Sparking an evacuation of any structure that size is a very involved process which requires active feedback and input from the structure's security and maintenance staffs among others. No one is going start the process and keep it moving just by yanking a single handle.


Bill
 
Also, even if the one tower clears there's still number 2. :(

I'm afraid we were screwed the second those assholes got aboard with the box cutters. :mad:
 
Depends how far you look in the future...those two thousand or so that lived would have thousannds more children most likely...and those children will have even more. And so on 'til you hit the millions :cool:
 
I think that if you add military, insurgent and civilian casualties in Iraq and Afganistan you can easy go over 1 mill.
 
While the mechanism he describes isn't plausible, the basic idea is interesting.

What if authorities received a credible threat of bombs planted in the twin towers, one which they believed and caused them to order the towers to be evacuated? Say the threat happens before most workers have come to work that day.

If it's largely property damage for the Twin Towers, with the deaths of 9-11 limited to those who died on the planes and in the Pentagon, how much less likely is a war in Iraq? Perhaps 500 deaths on 9-11 instead of over 3000.

One thing would stay the same. The incredible coincidence of a bomb threat on the same day as terrorist attacks would fuel the rumor mill and conspiracy theories.
 

Tovarich

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On September 11, 2001 a strange occurance happened in both towers. While a janitor was sweeping a floor, he hit the fire alarm causes that tower to evacutate....
Dunno about saving millions, but this could make for the most interesting industrial tribunal* in history - 'cos you can bet your life that the poor sod will still get sacked for accidentally setting the alarm off!

*(Do they have those in America?)
 
Truthfuly the only amount saved will be about 2,000 people. Of course if this is right before the towers got hit, many will look at the towers in shock, and the mass of people evacuating would cause huge people traffic in the area, when they fell, well the after math of the dust cloud is dead people on top of dead people.

Even if they evacuate in time, the war would still start. People still die.

In my TL, even with the stopping of the terrorist a war still begins.
 
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