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Originally Posted by wehateporn
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People fail to understand what happened to WTC7. They seem to think a fire took it down.
Setting aside the fact that two large buildings collapsed right in front of WTC7 similar to an earthqake, WTC7 was hit by all kinds of debris. The pictures of WTC7 from this time all show the far side of the building that wasn't hit by the falling debris.
Here's some details...
Nist notes that: "Heavy debris (exterior panels from WTC 1) seen on Vesey Street and the WTC 7 promenade structure at the third floor level. Southwest corner damage extends over Floors 8 to 18. Damage was observed on the south face that starts at the roof level and severed the spandrels between exterior columns near the southwest corner for at least five to 10 floors." However, the full extent and details of this damage are obscured by large amounts of smoke.
And then...
Deputy Director of the OEM, Richard Rotanz has to make an assessment on the damage to WTC 7. On the exterior he sees the upper 10-15 floors of Tower 7 on fire. "The skin of the building or the outside skirt of the building was taken out,¿ he says. "You see columns gone. You see floors damaged and you see heavy black smoke and fire."
He then enters the WTC 7. "At the time the building wasn't safe but we had to make an assessment, just the same, and we didn't spend that long. You could hear the building creak above us, you could hear things fall, you could hear the fire burning. You could see columns just hanging from the upper floors, gaping holes in the floors up above us.
"There was an elevator car that was blown out of the shaft and it was down the hall. This is the massive impact of Tower 1 onto Tower 7."
This is not a "building on fire that fell for no reason". This was a building that suffered two small earthquakes back to back, was hit with debris from two buildings falling that ripped open half of the building, and which was also on fire for hours.
On top of ALL OF THIS, there wasn't "one collaps" with WTC7. It had four collapses that day...
For all we know, the BBC got it right. I remember reports that day of building trying to get out of WTC7 but were unable to because the exits of the building were blocked with debris - they were physically buried.