Fire alone did not bring down either WTC. The towers were hit by huge airplanes and there we multiple reasons the towers came down.
You can't compare this to any other building that has ever caught fire because these buildings weren't slamed by huge airplanes and didn't have huge gaps open up in their side. Jesus Christ, I'm still stunned that the moment the planes hit the towers didn't fall done.
It's been said that the WTC towers were built to withstand the impact of a airplane. Well, I'm sure they tested that a lot by building huge towers in the desert and slamming passenger airplanes into them. What I'm saying is they build them to withstand the impact of an airplane, but it was never tested in real life.
Only once before has an airplane hit a building in a similar way. It was during WWII when a US bombed crashed into the Empire State building. The Empire State Building didn't fall. However, the differences are stagging - the plane was much smaller, the fuel was of a much lower grade, and the building itself was much more concrete than it was steel.
The impact of the planes slamming into the towers, the resulting structural damage, and the fire combined to bring those buildings down.
You can't compare this to any other building that has ever caught fire because these buildings weren't slamed by huge airplanes and didn't have huge gaps open up in their side. Jesus Christ, I'm still stunned that the moment the planes hit the towers didn't fall done.
It's been said that the WTC towers were built to withstand the impact of a airplane. Well, I'm sure they tested that a lot by building huge towers in the desert and slamming passenger airplanes into them. What I'm saying is they build them to withstand the impact of an airplane, but it was never tested in real life.
Only once before has an airplane hit a building in a similar way. It was during WWII when a US bombed crashed into the Empire State building. The Empire State Building didn't fall. However, the differences are stagging - the plane was much smaller, the fuel was of a much lower grade, and the building itself was much more concrete than it was steel.
The impact of the planes slamming into the towers, the resulting structural damage, and the fire combined to bring those buildings down.


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