WTC-7 North Side MASSIVE Fires .... CBS News, page 2

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Evil,

There is another thread showing pictures from 911. Two members on that thread alone state that the North side was in "prestine" condition. This is why I started this thread. To show that there were fire and damage on the north side.

I would like you to read a few quotes from the people that were around WTC7:

The building was fully involved in fire.

– Photographer Steve Spak

We walked over by number Seven World Trade Center as it was burning and saw this 40-plus story building with fire on nearly all floors.

–FDNY Lieutenant Robert LaRocca

...Just when you thought it was over, you're walking by this building and you're hearing this building creak and fully involved in flames. It's like, is it coming down next? Sure enough, about a half an hour later it came down.

–FDNY Lieutenant James McGlynn

I walked out and I got to Vesey and West, where I reported to Frank [Cruthers]. He said, we’re moving the command post over this way, that building’s coming down. At this point, the fire was going virtually on every floor, heavy fire and smoke that really wasn’t bothering us when we were searching because it was being pushed southeast and we were a little bit west of that. I remember standing just where West and Vesey start to rise toward the entrance we were using in the World Financial Center. There were a couple of guys standing with me and a couple of guys right at the intersection, and we were trying to back them up – and here goes 7. It started to come down and now people were starting to run.

–FDNY Deputy Chief Nick Visconti
www.firehouse.com...

All morning I was watching 7 World Trade burn, which we couldn't do anything about because it was so much chaos looking for missing members.

–Firefighter Marcel Klaes

When the building came down it was completely involved in fire, all forty-seven stories.

–FDNY Assistant Chief Harry Myers
Smith, Dennis, 2002. Report From Ground Zero: The Heroic Story of the Rescuers at the World Trade Center. New York: Penguin Putnam. p. 160

The whole south side of Seven World Trade had been hit by the collapse of the second Tower, and there was fire on every floor."

– Fire Captain Brenda Berkman
(Susan Hagen and Mary Carouba, Women at Ground Zero, 2002, p. 213)

"When I got out and onto a clear pile, I see that 7 World Trade Center and the customs house have serious fire. Almost every window has fire. It is an amazing site.

–Captain Jay Jonas, Ladder 6.
(Dennis Smith. Report From Ground Zero. New York: Viking Penguin, 2002. P. 103)

"The other building, #7, was fully involved, and he was worried about the next collapse."

-Firefighter TJ Mundy
(Dennis Smith. Report From Ground Zero. New York: Viking Penguin, 2002.)

7 World Trade was burning from the ground to the ceiling fully involved. It was unbelievable.

–Firefighter Steve Modica www.firehouse.com...

So I attempted to get in through the Barkley Street ramp which is on Barkley (sic) and West Broadway, but I was being held back by the fire department, because 7 World Trade, which is above the ramp, was now fully engulfed.

PAPD K-9 Sergeant David Lim www.911report.com...