was the former chief of arlington county, tom hawkins. he just walked in the back. these were in the green shirt on the right. tom hawkins was chief of arlington county for many years at the time of 9/11 was the chief of the city of alexandria fire department. he did a lot to help prepare not only arlington and alexandria but the entire region for terrorist attacks and a lot of what happened or what will this do to people i cared and the others i mentioned you prepared to reach in with planning and contingency. glad to have him here. thanks for all your help at the boat. [applause] >> i'm going to talk about another part of the story that i thought really intrigued me and if someone would interrupt us with some intelligence questions, we'll stop reading from her book. there was such a conflict between the different missions people had at the pentagon. you had firefighters who were there to put out a fire. this is a crime scene and effectively a war zone and also the nation's military headquarters. firefighters try to put up the biggest fire any of them had never see

tom hawkins was the chief of arlington county for many years. at the time of 9/11 he was the chief of alexandria farted.com since retired. people like you many others mentioned to prepare the region planning and contingency. so glad to hear. thanks for all your help with the book. [applause] >> i'm going to talk about one other part of the story that i thought was just really intrigue me. if someone would interrupt us with some intelligent questions we will stop reading from our book. there was such a conflict between the different missions people have and the pentagon. your firefighters who were there to put out a fire. this is also a crime scene and the war zone. it's also the nation's military had courted. tigers are trying to put out the biggest to any of them had ever seen that the fbi is there to collect evidence in trying to keep us all in pristine condition while firefighters are just dropping over parts of the airplane and driving over with fire trucks. vignette inside the pentagon most of the pentagon had evacuated but you had the war