Prior to 911, NOT ONE steel framed skyscraper fell due to fire.... no, not since either! On 911, not one, but THREE fell "due to fire" That's odd isn't it??????

Mon Feb 14 2005


AP - Firefighters brought a blaze in one of Madrid's tallest office
buildings under control after struggling for nearly 24 hours to contain it,
officials said.

The fire, which left seven people slightly injured, broke out in the
32-storey Windsor building on Saturday about 22.20 GMT (09.20 AEDT).

Thick smoke and searing temperatures prevented firefighters from entering
the building until late on Sunday.

The office tower was heavily damaged but did not collapse, as had been
feared.

["Feared" by those that accept the government's conspiracy theory that fire alone brought down three buildings in one day - but it's still standing after burning MORE INTENSELY, and FAR LONGER than ANY of the WTC fires. Look at the pictures yourself.... The photo at right shows the frame of the building smouldering but still standing.]

However, officials said it was unstable and closed the area around the
building.

"What worries us now is its structural state because of the high
temperatures it was subjected to," Merardo Tudelo, director of the Madrid
Municipal Firefighters, told reporters.

Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon said "the situation is still critical."

Emergency officials planned to keep the area in the Spanish capital's
banking and business district cordoned off at least through Monday - a
closure that would affect dozens of businesses and several thousand
employees.

The department store El Corte Ingles, located alongside the wrecked
skyscraper, confirmed it won't open on Monday and told its 2,000 employees
to stay home.

Cars will be routed to neighbouring streets, subway lines under or near the
damaged Windsor Building will remain shut down, and adjacent office towers
will remain closed by order of the mayor.

"This is the biggest fire ... this city has ever had," Gallardon told
reporters outside the blackened hulk of twisted wreckage.

It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, but the building was
almost empty when the first alarm went off.

Only one of the seven firefighters who suffered smoke inhalation remained
hospitalised, Gallardon said.

By Sunday evening, flames were no longer visible, though gray smoke and ash
stoked by gusts of wind continued to pour from the blackened shell of the
building.

Hours earlier, several top floors collapsed onto lower ones.

Firefighter official Fernando Munilla said the entire building - which at
about 106 metres high is among the 10 tallest in Madrid - could collapse.

"If the partial collapses keep happening, it would be lying to say it's
impossible that the whole building couldn't fall down," he said.

Emergency crews at the scene said firefighters were waiting for the
temperature inside the building to drop, which they said would lessen the
danger of collapse.

At their peak, temperatures reached 800 degrees Celsius, said Javier Sanz,
head of Madrid's firefighters.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero visited the site and said, "I
wanted to thank all those people who have been working since early in the
morning: firefighters, police, and all those who have thrown themselves in
to help in this catastrophe."

Thousands of onlookers lined streets barred to traffic.

"It gives you a sense of insecurity" to think that fire could destroy a
modern building so fast, said Paola Mendez, an office worker from another
part of town.

"It's not that old. Was it well built?"

Construction of the shiny gold Windsor Building began in 1973 and was
completed in 1979. It became a landmark structure in Madrid's business
district. The building was surrounded with scaffolding due to recent
repairs, and a huge crane remained perched on its roof.

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Professional Demolition of World Trade Center Building 7

http://www.prisonplanet.com/011904wtc7.html
 

World Trade Center Building 5 ~ Why No Collapse?

 

 

(AP) Military helicopters doused one of Venezuela's tallest buildings with water Sunday, bringing under control a blaze many feared might cause the tower to collapse.

[Wow, there is that new "fear" about collapse of a steel framed building in the media coverage again... interesting]

Earlier, nearby residences and businesses were evacuated. Two floors and some staircases in the building collapsed. But by Sunday afternoon, the temperature inside the burning building had dropped, lessening the danger of a collapse, Caracas fire chief Rodolfo Briceno said.

"Engineers have gone up there and inspected" the building, Briceno said, adding that "it is very solid."

Neighbors of the 56-story, 730-foot office tower were allowed to return to their residential buildings in downtown Caracas' Parque Central complex Sunday afternoon, but firefighters expected to work through the night to extinguish the last flames and keep them from spreading.

The blaze began before midnight Saturday on the 34th floor of the East Tower in the complex, Briceno said. By Sunday afternoon, it had burned for more 17 hours and spread over 26 floors, reaching the roof. The complex was built in 1976 and is considered a Caracas landmark.

The building was empty when the fire broke out, but 40 firefighters were injured when they inhaled poisonous gases, fire officials said. Their condition was not immediately known and Briceno did not say what might have caused the fire.

The high temperatures also stopped firefighters from reaching the tower's upper floors, where the fire was strongest. Military troops and rescue teams were brought in to help, and military helicopters flew over the building, dropping water on the tower, which houses government offices and ministries.

Firefighters' efforts were also hampered by malfunctioning water pumps and the lack of fire extinguishers inside the building as fire laws are not strictly enforced in Venezuela.

Earlier in the day, officials expressed fears that the building might collapse.

"There is a problem because the building is made of steel. Because of the high temperatures, the structure could collapse," Interior minister Jesse Chacon told President Hugo Chavez during his weekly radio and television show.

More than 100 paintings and sculptures in the contemporary art museum next to the tower were put into a vault for safekeeping, a museum official said.
 

Source link from CBS News:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/18/world/main649824.shtml

Another reason the 9/11 fire-mediated collapse theory has to be wrong
The easiest way to see that these buildings were rigged for demolition is to start by considering the fact that, between the time Flt. 175 hit WTC2 and the time the building collapsed, only 56 minutes had elapsed. And 56 minutes, simply, isn't enough time to develop a fire hot enough, nor large enough in extent, to even have a remote chance of getting enough steel hot enough to be a factor.

The best way to see the absurdity of the fire-mediated collapse theory is to make some simplifying assumptions...and apply some simple math and physics to the problem.

Say, for the sake of argument, that you’re concerned with one floor of the building. Assuming that you have an unlimited supply of readily combustible fuel available (which is, obviously, not true, but let's be generous), and there is no heat loss by convection, conduction or radiation (another ridiculous assumption, but let's give the shills every advantage).

Now, the rate at which the temperature rises on that floor will be determined by the composite thermal mass of the building materials associated with that floor, and the rate at which you can bring in oxygen to burn the fuel. Assuming, say, about 5E5 kg of steel, and about 1.4E6 kg of concrete, per floor (taking internet based numbers at face value), with specific heats of about 450 and 3300 J/kg*C, respectively, simple algebra shows that you would have to release about 3.27E12 Joules of energy to uniformly bring the temperature from ambient up to, say, 700 degrees C (starting to get into the interesting range, but probably still not high enough to cause a collapse).

The problem is that for WTC2, you have to release this huge amount of energy in only 56 minutes. That means you would have to burn somewhere on the order of 30,000 gallons of jet fuel in 56 minutes. That means you would have to supply air to the fire inside the building at a rate somewhere in the neighborhood of 6E5 cubic feet per minute.

That's right, in order to bring the temperature of one floor of a WTC tower from 25 to 700 degrees centigrade, uniformly, in a short 56-minute time frame, you would have to supply about 600,000 cubic feet of air per minute...for each of those 56 minutes. And that’s a ridiculously high number. And even if you did find a way to create such blast furnace like conditions, the fact of the matter is that you would convect a significant portion of the heat away, just like what happens in a fireplace; in order to let fresh air in, you have to let the heated, oxygen-depleted air escape.

If you were lucky, and the process was, say, 50% efficient (meaning the airflow only carried away half your heat), you would need to double everything, which would mean burning 60,000 gallons of jet fuel in 56 minutes, while feeding the fire with over one million cubic feet of air per minute.

By way of the above numbers, the absurdity of the "official" version of events is laid bare for all to see.

9/11 Tower Recreation: Building Does Not Collapse

GOTO: WTC7

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