Kyles and Hollis maintain that the city’s first responders did not act in a timely manner to save E2’s patrons as they were piled on top of one another in the narrow doorway, and the businessmen filed a suit against the city. Ed Grasse, their attorney said, “Surveillance footage shows that there were 45 minutes during which police and fire officers stood outside instead of coming in to help. They sent 20 police cars and only two ambulances, and stood around and watched as these 21 people died.”
