Still Harsher in Hindsight (as with much of the rest of the movie) after 9/11.

The triage ward toward the end - a seemingly endless stream of broken and dead firefighters.A number of YouTube commenters compared this scene to footage of people jumping off the World Trade Center on 9/11. Choking on smoke, she breaks the window with a chair, the fresh air causing a backdraft. Bigelow running straight into the blazing inferno with nothing more then a wet towel for protection.Look carefully, and you'll notice that this is the same elevator from the scene described above, as evidenced by what can be seen inside it: a massive pile of burning human bodies. A few moments later in the movie, an elevator opens to the party room and a burning man staggers out, who dies in mere seconds. This actually gets even more horrible.It doesn't end well, as the car moves too fast for the firefighters to spray it.

The ghastly results of a bunch of people from the party panicking and trying to take the main elevator down past the fire floors.

Towering inferno torrent