In fact, here's a fellow ARFCOM'er who is a NY resident and was there (at ground zero) during the attacks, and what he had to say about the "WTC Building #7" thing you mentioned:
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I was there, I saw how it happened. There weren't any small fires, there were RAGING INFERNOS inside that building that covered most of the skyline in pitch black smoke. The first claim of that website that, "small fires" leveled it are false.
I watched as the firemen pulled back because of its leaning inward and how it was RAGING out of control. Tin foil hatasses have nothing on my first hand knowledge as I watched and TOOK PICTURES of the building burning. I will send you the pics if you want to post them of the smoke coming from the building that covered the city in that pitch smoke. I also have a direct, head on shot of the building burning on just about every floor.
The truth is that the building was the home to the emergency command center, which had diesel backup generators. The WTC collapse punctured a diesel tank and started the diesel inferno, similar to the WTC fire, which was fueled by a combustible material....OIL. That allowed the building to heat up to a temp that caused its collapse. We LISTENED to the building imploding as the steel beams broke under the heat of fire and the building came to the ground.
Want those pics to post? IM me your email addy.
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If you want his email address, let me know.
More from him:
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An hour or so before the building went down, the decision was made to withdraw firefighters from it and allow it to burn. The "loss of life" was the FDNY's own people and they didn't want to lose anymore FDNY that day, so they opted to leave it, let it burn and see if it stood after the fires.
There were NO explosives set off. There were two times before it collapsed that the FDNY and rescuers were pulled from the debris zone because of grumblings in the building and there was a HUGE buffer zone between the building and all personnel because they knew it was going to go down.
Silverstein had no authority to allow or disallow the building's destruction, he was commenting on how the FDNY withdrew. There were also NO demolition crews, nor could they get into the building, since every floor was on fire. The smoke "demolition trail" pics they show on the site would have been impossible, unless the demolition workers were fire proof.
And as far as objects hitting the building, [that's] wrong. Large pieces of the WTC struck the face, punctured the diesel tank and set the building on fire. The black smoke in my pictures smelled and LOOKED like an oil fire while I was there. The smell was undeniable, even though mixed in with "other" odors on the site.
EXPLOSIVES WERE IMPOSSIBLE AND THIS CLAIM IS BULL****.
If you want to take these whacko's claims, then do so. But they were not there, they do not have all of the facts and they are deliberately not adding all of the facts to make you question what happened. The building burnt until it fell, that's the end of the story
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There you go. Of course, I doubt that will sway your opinion that the WTC attacks were some big conspiracy that involved our gov't... (or whatever the latest tinfoil hat theory about the WTC attacks happens to be...) [
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