08-31-2004, 04:39 PM
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Originally posted by erehwon
WTC #7 was home to American Express, Salomon Smith Barney, Standard Chartered Bank, Mayor's Office of Emergency Mgmt, and many them had their main datacenters in WTC #7.
I don't know if you have toured your local datacenter, but most centers have a reserve of diesel fuel that will kick in should the power fail.
WTC #7 is pelted with flaming chunks of WTC 1 & 2, there is no water pressure in that part of town, due to the collapse, so the fire suppresion system (the sprinklers) can't stop a raging fire with all those flamable materials in the building.
Then you have up to 42,000+ gallons of diesel fuel sitting on various floors burning away, and no firefighters actively trying to stop these fires from spreading within the building.
Put all these factors together, not to mention the foundation is not in the best of shape after everything that has happened with building collapses, giant multi-ton pieces of building and airplanes being flung around, 42,000+ gallons of flaming diesel fuel, paper, desks, other flammable office materiels burning, no sprinklers, no firefighters and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that a building is going to collapse given all those factors.
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 Building 7 only burned for about 1 hour. While in 1991 Meridian Plaza which is one of the worst fires in history burned for 19 hours and it didn't come down.  |
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