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The Official Story and 'debunkers' claim that the damage to the tower lobby's were caused by Jet Fuel.
Originally posted by Majic
Semi-Official Comment: To the extent you present your case using facts, it can be persuasive. To the extent you attempt to characterize the opinions of unspecified others, you undermine your case and literally invite the thread to crash in flames .
Why not just focus on the facts, and let readers decide for themselves?
Anyway, I don't want to derail the thread with "meta" commentary myself, but I can guarantee that any discussion founded on tangential fallacies like "truthers versus debunkers" is doomed to failure, and recommend against falling into that time-worn trap.
Just sayin'
Originally posted by hooper
"official story" source please. Or else the rest of this post is one big whopper.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by thegameisup
The Official Story and 'debunkers' claim that the damage to the tower lobby's were caused by Jet Fuel.
"official story" source please. Or else the rest of this post is one big whopper.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by hooper
"official story" source please. Or else the rest of this post is one big whopper.
Excellent point and I give you a star for your observation. Nowhere in "the official story" does it address what caused which explosion, and how. It's becoming clear that the entire reason why they're seeing problems with "the official story" is because they're deliberately misrepresenting what the "official story" actually is specifically so they can criticize it.
This is the definition of a strawman argument, after all.
As you can see from this firefighter that was actually there, he says the damage to the lobby was away from the lift, and he is adamant the damage was not caused by jet fuel.
. Firefighter John Morabito of ladder 10, which is just 200 yards from the north tower.
“Just inside the front entrance, Morabito found two victims of the fireball. A man, already dead, was pushed against a wall, his clothes gone, his eyeglasses blackened, his tongue lying on the floor next to him. The other was a woman, with no clothes, her hair burned off, her eyes sealed.
“The woman, she sat up. I’m yelling to her, ‘Don’t worry, we’re going to help you,’” Morabito said. “She sat up and was trying to talk, but her throat had closed up. She died right there.” www.fdnytenhouse.com...
Mercedes Rivera: I saw a burned woman in a sitting position in the lobby, as if she was still typing behind a desk.... She was already dead.” Susan Hagen and Mary Carouba. Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. P. 22
As we got to the third floor of the B stairway, we forced open an elevator door which was burnt on all three sides. The only thing that was remaining was the hoistway door. And inside the elevator were about I didn’t recognize them initially, but a guy from 1 Truck said oh my God, those are people. They were pretty incinerated. And I remember the overpowering smell of kerosene. That’s when Lieutenant Foti said oh, that’s the jet fuel. I remember it smelled like if you’re camping and you drop a kerosene lamp.
The same thing happened to the elevators in the main lobby. They were basically blown out. I do’nt recall if I actually saw people in there. What got me initially in the lobby was that as soon as we went in, all the windows were blown out, and there were one or two burning cars outside. And there were burn victims on the street there, walking around. We walked through this giant blown-out window into the lobby.
There was a lady there screaming that she didn’t know how she got burnt. She was just in the lobby and then next thing she knew she was on fire. She was burnt bad. And somebody came over with a fire extinguisher and was putting water on her.
That’s the first thing that got me. That and in front of one of the big elevator banks in the lobby was a desk and I definitely made out one of the corpses to be a security guard because he had a security label on his jacket. I’m assuming that maybe he was at a table still in a chair and almost completely incinerated, charred all over his body, definitely dead. And you could make out like a security tag on his jacket. And I remember seeing the table was melted, but he was still fused in the chair and that elevator bank was melted, so I imagine the jet fuel must have blown right down the elevator shaft and I guess caught the security guard at a table, I guess at some type of checkpoint. www.firehouse.com...
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Brian Reeves, a 34-year-old security guard, was nearly killed while making the rounds in the lobby of 1 World Trade Center on September 11. He started to run after hearing an explosion that he said sounded like a missile, but he was knocked down by a fireball that roared down the elevator shaft.
Reeves suffered third-degree burns to 40 percent of his body before he was able to pat out the flames. He was one of 20 critically-injured patients rushed to New York Presbyterian’s burn unit that day. www.ny1.com...
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(Vasana) Mutuanot was in the lobby of Tower One when she heard the first explosion. Thinking it was a bomb like the terrorist attack in 1993, she turned to run, looking over her shoulder as flames leaped from a freight elevator shaft cooking her back and legs and right cheek. "It was a fireball with sand and heat, like a hurricane of fire," she said.
www.chron.com...
Mututanont ran out of the building then fell after flying glass sliced through a tendon in her leg. A wall of fire followed her outside.
“Swept to my back from my feet up and then I see fire all over, in my hair, also. A lot of people just blew away, you know, like that.” www.pbs.org...
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Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by thegameisup
Are you saying that the jet fuel would just explode in the elevators and stop traveling? Fire and explosions don't work that way.
Originally posted by -PLB-
I have issues with the format of this thread. It is very hard to know what it is about. I suggest a format similar to:
1) The claim made in the official story.
2) The maker of that claim.
3) The source that were used.
4) Proof that those sources are false.
5) Proof that the sources used to determine this are not false
6) Proof that there were ill intentions and not just errors or bias.
7) Come with an alternative explanation that explains the available evidence better,
It seems to me you have a long way to go until you have exposed anything, but good luck with it.