Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve

Ok, so you watched loose change too.. here's a line from the film that references one of the buildings you are talking about:

"On February 23rd, 1991, a 38 storey skyscraper in Philadelphia, built in 1973, burned for more than 19 hours and spread over 8 floors. It did not collapse."

Ok, So here's what really happened at that building:

-Fire was contained by fire dept. and sprinklers from floor 30 and up.
- Bldg was not damaged prior to fire. Fire protection coating was not blown off.

and a quote:

"The Philadelphia fire LC mentions was the Meridian Building. The firefighting efforts were abandoned after 11 hours because the fire department feared (ta-dah) pancake collapse! The building was effectively destroyed in any case. It had a large net over it and had to be reinforced before it could be brought down!"

I love that. Yes, pancake collapse is impossible - so impossible that firefighters stopped fighting a fire in the above mentioned building because they were afraid of it!!