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Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
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WTC 7 looks to be in good shape before it went down, minor damges to corner of building.
[edit on 21-6-2008 by Blue_Jay33]
WTC 7 looks to be in good shape before it went down, minor damges to corner of building.
Captain Chris Boyle
Engine 94 - 18 years
Boyle: ...on the north and east side of 7 it didn’t look like there was any damage at all, but then you looked on the south side of 7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn’t look good.
Firehouse: When you looked at the south side, how close were you to the base of that side?
Boyle: I was standing right next to the building, probably right next to it.
Firehouse: When you had fire on the 20 floors, was it in one window or many?
Boyle: There was a huge gaping hole and it was scattered throughout there. It was a huge hole. I would say it was probably about a third of it, right in the middle of it. And so after Visconti came down and said nobody goes in 7, we said all right, we’ll head back to the command post. We lost touch with him. I never saw him again that day.
...Captain Varriale told Chief Coloe and myself that 7 World Trade Center was badly damaged on the south side and definitely in danger of collapse. Chief Coloe said we were going to evacuate the collapse zone around 7 World Trade Center, which we did.
The biggest decision we had to make was to clear the area and create a collapse zone around the severely damaged [WTC Building 7]. A number of fire officers and companies assessed the damage to the building. The appraisals indicated that the building's integrity was in serious doubt.
Deputy Chief Peter Hayden
Division 1 - 33 years
...also we were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse. Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse.
Firehouse: Was there heavy fire in there right away?
Hayden: No, not right away, and that’s probably why it stood for so long because it took a while for that fire to develop. It was a heavy body of fire in there and then we didn’t make any attempt to fight it. That was just one of those wars we were just going to lose. We were concerned about the collapse of a 47-story building there. We were worried about additional collapse there of what was remaining standing of the towers and the Marriott, so we started pulling the people back after a couple of hours of surface removal and searches along the surface of the debris. We started to pull guys back because we were concerned for their safety.
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
Captain Chris Boyle
Engine 94 - 18 years
Originally posted by thedman
Typical truther lies - picture 43 shows one corner of the building with
damage. Problem is angle. Picture was taken from North face of
WTC 7 - problem was it was the SOUTH face which was hit! Can see
little bit of the Southwest corner with impact damage.
Problem is that because of the debris and collapse danger almost all pictures of WTC 7 are from North which suffered no damage and can
only see small fires through windows.
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
The answers your repetitive tick are found here.. I look forward to your rebuttal paper and will read it with great interest.
The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified. The rate of corrosion is also unknown. It is possible that this is the result of long-term heating in the ground following the collapse of the buildings. It is also possible that the phenomenon started prior to collapse and accelerated the weakening of the steel structure. A detailed study into the mechanisms of this phenomenon is needed to determine what risk, if any, is presented to existing steel structures exposed to severe and long-burning fires.
I wonder why there are no pictures of WTC 7 from the south? All we ever see is the north, west and a bit of the southwest corner that was damaged. You would think that with all this fire engulfing the building and everyone knowing it was about to collapse, there'd be some footage from the "damaged" side right? Why are there none from these helicopters? Could they not fly on that side of the building?
Originally posted by thedman
As for helicopters - limited visibility caused by dust from building collapses
and smoke from fires prevented them from getting close to WTC 7.
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
The answers your repetitive tick are found.
According to the account of a firefighter who walked the 9th floor along the south side following the collapse of WTC 1, the only damage to the 9th floor facade occurred at the southwest corner. According to firefighters' eyewitness accounts from outside of the building, approximately floors 8-18 were damaged to some degree. Other eyewitness accounts relate that there was additional damage to the south elevation.