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urned for 18 hours; in 2004, a fire in Caracas burned for17 hours. But neither fire produced even a partialcollapse. 22 The World Trade Center’s north and south towersburned only 102 and 56 minutes, respectively, before theycollapsed. WTC 7, moreover, had fires on only a few floors,according to several witnesses 23 and all the photographicevidence. 24Third, total collapses of steel-frame high-risebuildings have never been brought about by fire andexternally caused structural damage. All such collapses havebeen caused by explosives in the procedure known as“controlled demolition.”Fourth, the collapses of these three buildings allmanifested many standard features of the kind of controlleddemolition known as “implosion,” such as: sudden onset(whereas steel, if weakened by fire, would gradually begin22 “High-Rise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,” FEMA (http://usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/techreports/tr049.shtm);“Fire Practically Destroys Venezuela’sTallest Building”(http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/venezuela_fire.html).23 New York Magazine reporter Mark Jacobson, referring to the building afew minutes before it collapsed, said: “It wasn’t a 47-story buildingthat was engulfed in flames. The whole building wasn’t on fire. . . .There was a lot of fire coming out of a few floors” (Jacobson can beseen making this statement in Michael Berger’s film, “ImprobableCollapse: The Demolition of Our Republic”). ”Chief Thomas McCarthy ofthe FDNY said that while the firefighters “were waiting for 7 WorldTrade to come down,” there was “fire on three separate floors” (9/11Oral History of Thomas McCarthy, 10-11). Emergency medical technicianDecosta Wright said: “I think the fourth floor was on fire. . . . [W]ewere like, are you guys going to put that fire out?” (9/11 Oral Historyof Decosta Wright, 11). These quotations are from the 9/11 oralhistories recorded by the New York Fire Department at the end of 2001but released to the public (after a court battle) in August 2005, thenmade available on a New York Times website(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html).24 A photograph taken by Terry Schmidt can be seen on page 63 of EricHufschmid’s Painful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11 thAttack(Goleta, Calif.: Endpoint Software, 2002). According to Schmidt, thisphoto was taken between 3:09 and 3:16 PM, hence only a little over 2hours before Building 7 collapsed. It shows that on the north side ofthe building, fires were visible only on floors 7 and 12. Therefore, ifthere were more fires on the south side, as some witnesses have claimed,they were not big enough to be seen from the north side.8
to sag); straight-down collapse (as opposed to fallingover); collapse at virtually free-fall speed (indicatingthat the lower floors, with all their steel and concrete,were offering no resistance); total collapse (indicatingthat the massive steel columns in the core of each buildinghad been broken into many pieces---which is what explosivesdo in controlled demolitions); the production of moltenmetal; and the occurrence of multiple explosions. Althoughnone of these six features can be explained by the officialtheory, let us focus on only the last two.To begin with the molten metal: Many people have beenled to believe, by misleading TV documentaries, that theTwin Towers collapsed because their steel melted. But steeldoes not begin to melt until it reaches 2800°F, whereas openfires based on hydrocarbons such as kerosene---which is whatjet fuel is---cannot get much above 1700°F (even with anideal mixture of fuel and oxygen, which seldom occurs inbuilding fires). Nevertheless, molten metal was produced,according to many witnesses. For example, Peter Tully,president of Tully Construction, which was involved in theclean-up operation, said that he saw pools of “literallymolten steel” at the site. 25That would be no surprise only if the buildings’ steelcolumns had been sliced by the use of high-temperatureexplosives, such as thermite, thermate, or RDX, which areregularly used to cut steel. That this is what happened issupported by reports that sometimes when steel beams werelifted from the rubble, they were dripping molten metal. 2625 Quoted in Christopher Bollyn, “New Seismic Data Refutes OfficialExplanation,” American Free Press, Updated April 12, 2004(http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2580). For several moreexamples, see the subsection labeled “Molten Steel” in my chapter, “TheDestruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account CannotBe True,” in Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11, or thediscussion of molten metal in Chap. 3 of Debunking 9/11 Debunking.26 For example, Joe “Toolie” O'Toole, a Bronx firefighter who worked formany months on the rescue and clean-up efforts, said with regard to abeam that had been lifted by a crane from deep within the catacombs at9
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