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originally posted by: Majic
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How about explaining to us, the process of how stored iron can generate temperatures high enough to start fires.
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: randyvs
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How about explaining to us, the process of how stored iron can generate temperatures high enough to start fires, even if buried beneath the ground.
Remember, those who had said they heard explosions, later determined that sound of explosions they heard had nothing to do with explosives. Demo explosions are detonating in rapid session and that is not the case in this instance.
To my knowledge nobody including NYFD has retracted that they claim they heard explosions.
Louie Cacchioli, 51, is a firefighter assigned to Engine 47 in Harlem.
Cacchioli was upset that People Magazine misquoted him, saying "there were bombs" in the building when all he said was he heard "what sounded like bombs" without having definitive proof bombs were actually detonated.
www.arcticbea...9-Jul-2005.html...
Jay Swithers
An ambulance pulled up which was very clean, S0 I assumed that the vehicle had not been in the what I thought was an explosion at the time, but was the first collapse.
Dominick Derubbio
t was weird how it started to come down. It looked like it was a timed explosion, but I guess it was just the floors starting to pancake one on top of the other.
FDNY Batallion Chief Brian Dixon
I looked up and you could actually see everything blew out on the one floor. I thought, geez, this looks like an explosion up there, it blew out. Then I guess in some sense of time we looked at it and realized, no, actually it just collapsed. That ís what blew out the windows, not that there was an explosion there but that windows blew out.
Craig Carlsen said that he and other firefighters “heard explosions coming from the south tower
...there were about ten explosions. At the time I didn't realize what it was. We realized later after talking and finding out that it was the floors collapsing to where the plane had hit.
To my knowledge nobody including NYFD has retracted that they claim they heard explosions.
They heard explosive-like sounds, but let's take a look at what those sounds werel.
NY Times & Victims Family FOIA Request making Suppressed Firemen Statements public:
A rich vein of city records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories rendered in the voices
of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, was made public 8/12/05.
The city has announced that it will also release today a written log of calls to the 911 system, many from trapped
office workers, as well as tapes of fire dispatchers. Other records, including tapes of 911 operators, are being assembled
and are not yet ready for release, city officials said.
The New York Times sought the records under the freedom of information law in February 2002, but the Bloomberg
administration refused to make them public and the newspaper sued the city. Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals,
New York's highest court, ordered the city to release most, but not all, of the records.
Over the last three and half years, The Times has obtained some of these records through unofficial channels, and they
can be found on the Web at www.nytimes.com/sept11
These include the dispatch tapes, nearly 100 of the Fire Department oral histories, and a log of calls to Emergency Medical
Service dispatchers that were channeled through the 911 system.
Numerous witnesses to the collapse of the south WTC tower think it resembles a demolition using explosives. Some initially believe this is what is occurring:
bullet Reporter John Bussey watches the collapse from the Wall Street Journal’s offices across the street from the WTC. He says, “I… looked up out of the office window to see what seemed like perfectly synchronized explosions coming from each floor, spewing glass and metal outward. One after the other, from top to bottom, with a fraction of a second between, the floors blew to pieces.” [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/12/2001]
bullet Deputy Fire Commissioner Thomas Fitzpatrick: “I remember seeing, it looked like sparkling around one specific layer of the building.… Then the building started to come down. My initial reaction was that this was exactly the way it looks when they show you those implosions on TV.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 10/1/2001]
bullet Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory: “I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista… he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him… I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.… You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That’s what I thought I saw.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 10/3/2001]
bullet Firefighter Richard Banaciski: “It seemed like on television they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 12/6/2001]
bullet Firefighter Joseph Meola: “As we are looking up at the building, what I saw was, it looked like the building was blowing out on all four sides. We actually heard the pops.… You thought it was just blowing out.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 12/11/2001]
bullet Fire Chief Frank Cruthers: “[T]here was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 10/31/2001]
bullet Battalion Chief Brian Dixon: “I was watching the fire… the lowest floor of fire in the South Tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because the whole bottom I could see—I could see two sides of it and the other side—it just looked like that floor blew out.… I thought, geez, this looks like an explosion up there, it blew out.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 10/25/2001]
bullet Firefighter Timothy Burke: “Then the building popped, lower than the fire… I was going oh, my god, there is secondary device because the way the building popped I thought it was an explosion.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 1/22/2002]
bullet Firefighter Edward Cachia: “It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit, because we originally had thought there was like an internal detonation explosives because it went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 12/6/2001]
bullet Firefighter Kenneth Rogers: “[T]here was an explosion in the South Tower… I kept watching. Floor after floor after floor. One floor under another after another and when it hit about the fifth floor, I figured it was a bomb, because it looked like a synchronized deliberate kind of thing.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 12/10/2001]
bullet Reporter Beth Fertig: “The tower went down perfectly straight, as if a demolition crew had imploded it. I wondered if it was being brought down deliberately.” [GILBERT ET AL., 2002, PP. 78]
bullet Paramedic Daniel Rivera: “[D]o you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear ‘Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop’? That’s exactly what—because I thought it was that.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 10/10/2001]
bullet Battalion Chief Dominick DeRubbio: “It was weird how it started to come down. It looked like it was a timed explosion.” [CITY OF NEW YORK, 10/12/2001]
bullet The Guardian will report that police on the scene said the collapse “looked almost like a ‘planned implosion’ designed to catch bystanders watching from the street.” [GUARDIAN, 9/12/2001]
Lobby Is 'Total Ruins' - According to Jennings, when he gets down to the lobby, he is astonished to find it totally ruined. In a 2007 interview he will recall: “[W]hen I came in there, the lobby had nice escalators. It was a huge lobby.” But reaching it again, he asks the firefighter who is escorting him, “Where are we?” and the firefighter answers, “This was the lobby.” Jennings finds this “unbelievable,” and says, “You gotta be kidding me.” He will describe the lobby as being “total ruins.” 'Stepping over People' - Furthermore, Jennings steps over what may be dead bodies in the lobby. He will say: “[T]he firefighter that took us down kept saying, ‘Do not look down,’ and I kept saying, ‘Why is that?’ [He said,] ‘Do not look down.’ And, stepping over people. And you know you could feel when you’re stepping over people.”
originally posted by: devilhunter
What about CCTV cameras in hotels, offices, gas stations etc etc ?
up this whole plane vs missile argument once and for all ?
As hard as this might be to believe a group of foreign
art students NOT U.S. Citizens managed to get temporary construction ID for the entire WTC complex.
While there,they removed a window and extended a wooden balcony while their "sponsor" was in the Millenium Hotel taking photos, he also hired a helicopter to document the event.
And only a retired flight attendant sees something fishy?
originally posted by: DarthFazer
a reply to: skyeagle409
Remember, those who had said they heard explosions, later determined that sound of explosions they heard had nothing to do with explosives. Demo explosions are detonating in rapid session and that is not the case in this instance.
Who are "those" you speak of ? Can you provide proof ?
To my knowledge nobody including NYFD has retracted that they claim they heard explosions.
Again can you provide a link or source to back this up ?