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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 438
important evidence has been removed and recycled to be appalling.”
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No High Rise Had Ever Collapsed Due To Fire
Numerous experts agree that no high rise building in the world has ever collapsed by fire
alone. Norman Glover pointed this out; he writes: “[A]lmost all large buildings will be the
location for a major fire in their useful life. No major high-rise building has ever collapsed from
fire. The WTC was the location for such a fire in 1975; however, the building survived with
minor damage and was repaired and returned to service”.
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But experts almost unanimously agree that the impact of the planes did not and could not
cause enough damage to collapse the WTCs. If the impact could not and did not cause the
collapse, that leaves fire as the primary cause under the official theory. And as was just stated,
fires have never caused the collapse of a high rise. Further, WTC 7 had no significant structural
damage, it was not hit by a plane and the 42-story high rise collapsed just like the twin towers.
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This was not the first time that a high rise building was struck by a large plane. In 1945
the Empire State building was struck by a B-25 bomber which created a hole 20 feet high. The
Empire State Building did not collapse nor did it show any signs of a potential collapse.
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While fires have not collapsed a high rise building, there have been collapses due to
earthquakes. But in these earthquake induced collapses, the buildings remained largely intact;
they looked nothing like the twin towers collapses. When you examine pictures of these earth
quake induced collapses, you can readily see that the buildings tipped over. (You can see
pictures of these collapses on the Internet at 9-11 Research.)
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The collapse of World Trade
Centers 1, 2 and 7 are completely unique to all other building failures in the history of the world.
The only other high rise buildings in the world to suffer similar complete and utter destruction,
as was witnessed in the twin towers collapses, have been due to demolitions using explosives.
How Hot Where The Fires?
While the official explanation of the collapse of WTC 1, 2 and 7 relies on extreme heat as
an explanation, the fires weren't hot enough to weaken the steal. Dr. Jones writes: “The
temperature of the fire at the WTC was not unusual, and it was most definitely not capable of
melting steel.”
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In fact many other high rise building fires have been much hotter, burnt longer
and did not collapse. Examples of these fires were provided in FEMA's report. Dr. David Ray
Griffin gives examples of these in his paper, “The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why
the Official Account Cannot Be True”:
In 1988, a fire in the First Interstate Bank Building in Los Angeles raged
for 3.5 hours and gutted 5 of this building’s 62 floors, but there was no significant
structural damage (FEMA, 1988). In 1991, a huge fire in Philadelphia’s One
Meridian Plaza lasted for 18 hours and gutted 8 of the building’s 38 floors, but,
said the FEMA report, although “[b]eams and girders sagged and twisted . . .
under severe fire exposures. . . , the columns continued to support their loads
without obvious damage” (FEMA, 1991). In Caracas in 2004, a fire in a 50-story
building raged for 17 hours, completely gutting the building’s top 20 floors, and
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