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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 439
yet it did not collapse (Nieto, 2004). And yet we are supposed to believe that a 56-
minute fire caused the south tower to collapse....
Another important comparison is afforded by a series of experiments run
in Great Britain in the mid-1990s to see what kind of damage could be done to
steel-frame buildings by subjecting them to extremely hot, all-consuming fires
that lasted for many hours. FEMA, having reviewed those experiments, said:
“Despite the temperature of the steel beams reaching 800-900°C (1,500-1,700°F)
in three of the tests. . . , no collapse was observed in any of the six experiments”
(1988, Appendix A).
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While other high rise fires have burned hotter and longer, the WTC 2 (South Tower)
collapsed only 56-minutes after it was struck by flight 175 and the WTC 1 (North Tower)
collapsed only 102-minutes after being struck by flight 11. Further, the WTC 2 collapsed first
despite being struck last and despite the fact that most of flight 175's jet fuel exploded in a ball of
flame outside of WTC 2. The opposite happened at WTC 1, most of the jet fuel from flight 11
exploded inside WTC 1. In spite of this, WTC 1 remained standing for 46-minutes longer than
WTC 2. If both towers collapsed due to damage and extreme heat, WTC 1 would have collapsed
first.
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The fact is jet fuel cannot burn hot enough to cause any significant structural weakening
to a steel structure. Jet fuel's maximum burning temperature is 1830°F (1000°C). But for jet fuel
to burn at this temperature requires the induction of pure oxygen. Have you ever seen an
acetylene torch? In order for the torch to function, it must have both a bottle of compressed
acetylene and a bottle of compressed oxygen. Acetylene alone won't burn hot enough to cut or
weld steel. Even when combined with pure oxygen, jet fuel won't burn hot enough to cut or even
weld steel. Steel melts at 2800°F.
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Jet fuel is almost entirely composed of kerosene. There are kerosene lanterns, kerosene
heaters, and kerosene stoves. Most people have used these at one time or another. As everyone is
aware, the lanterns, heaters and stoves don't melt when you burn kerosene in them; they don't get
red hot and the metal doesn't soften.
In a building fire, you don't have an ideal mix of oxygen or even an ideal supply of air.
Typical residential building fires burn in the range of 500°C to 650°C (930° F to 1200° F). The
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) ignores these two facts and estimates in
their report on the WTC fires that a maximum temperature of 1830°F (1000°C) was achieved.
But they readily admit that the jet fuel took only 10-minutes or less to burn. The Lead
Investigator for NIST, Dr. Shyam Sunder, stated: “The jet fuel probably burned out in less than
10 minutes.” Further, the NIST report itself states that: “The initial jet fuel fires themselves
lasted at most a few minutes” and office material fires would burn out within about 20-minutes
in a given location. (NIST, 2005; p. 179, emphasis added.) Although they estimate a temperature
of 1000°C, they give a short duration for that temperature.
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Dr. Jones writes:
At any given location, the duration of [air, not steel] temperatures near
1,000
o
C was about 15 min to 20 min. The rest of the time, the calculated
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