TRUTH wrote:
then why did the leaseholder say....
"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling
me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and
I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to
do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the
building collapse
http://www.911blogger.com/files/video/wtc7_pbs.WMV
He wanted to reduce his casualties, genius.
WTC 7, a 47 story steel framed building built in 1987, collapsed
completely, near freefall speed.
Nowhere near freefall. Calculate it yourself: d = 16t^2 where d =
distance (height) and t = time in seconds.
WTC 7 housed the Secret Service's LARGEST field office
http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/feat...Secret_Service.
html
Would the SS have an office in a building that could collapse like that?
All buildings can collapse, genius. Perhaps the rent was good.
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired